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The World Outside: Experiencing the world through the eyes of autism
Carly Fleischmann with her father. The following is an excerpt from Issue 12 of Guru Magazine, a Wellcome-Trust supported digital ‘science-lifestyle’ periodical available for free at gurumagazine.org...
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The meaning of “genome”
By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester What does “DNA” mean to you? How about “genome”? Working in genetics, I use these terms every day and it’s easy to assume they’re understood. They’ve become...
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Mapping the effects of nature and nurture
Dr Oliver Davis The age-old debate about whether nature or nurture most affects us took an interesting turn last year when Dr Oliver Davis published a paper showing that the extent to which you’re...
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Double Trouble – spotting the difference with genetics
By Mark A. Jobling Professor Mark Jobling is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, leading the Genome Science research group at the University of Leicester. “How unique are you?” – an infuriating question...
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Choosing tomorrow’s children: the ethics of selective reproduction
By Stephen Wilkinson, Lancaster University Biomedical science is capable of giving people more choice than ever before about what their future children will be like. Such possibilities raise important...
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HELIX – a different way of looking at DNA
This week sees the launch of Helix, a collaborative digital graphic novel created by artist David Blandy, scientist and writer Adam Rutherford and illustrator Daniel Locke. Helix tells the history of...
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Can gene therapy help restore sight? – new research
Gene therapy is a growing field of research but there are many challenges to overcome before research reaches patients as routine treatment. The Wellcome Trust’s Technology Transfer Division aims to...
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Wellcome Trust provides funds for Richard III’s genome to be sequenced
When archaeologists announced they had unearthed the mortal remains of King Richard III last year, the news was met with much excitement. This week, the Wellcome Trust announced it is helping to fund...
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Clean cut genetics
Wellcome Trust-funded researchers are helping to show how new ‘genome editing’ techniques could be used to transform the future of genetics research. Image credit: Spooky Pooka. Wellcome Images Reading...
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Gene mutation allows tracking of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes
Africa accounts for 85% of malaria cases and 90% of malaria deaths worldwide. Control strategies rely heavily on insecticide-based interventions such as Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and Long Lasting...
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Taking steps to prevent jigsaw re-identification in genomic research
Four major UK research funders have released their joint response to a statement from the Expert Advisory Group on Data Access (EAGDA), on the issue of the re-identifiability of participants from...
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Relative Risk: Breast Cancer and Genetics
Last week the Progress Educational Trust held an event called Relative Risk: Breast Cancer and Genetics, supported by the Wellcome Trust. This was the first event in a series looking at issues...
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Image of the Week: C. elegans
This week’s image shows the nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, hatching as seen under a light microscope. A small, transparent, soil-dwelling nematode worm might not be the sort of thing that...
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Image of the Week: Zebrafish
We continue to take a closer look at some of the model organisms that have contributed to our knowledge of genetics and drug discovery. This week, the super symmetrical retina of a zebrafish. This...
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Image of the Week: Mouse toes
As part of our series on model organisms, this week Jack Millner takes a look at one of our tiny mammalian cousins that medical research is greatly indebted to: the mouse. The mouse genome has the...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Andrew Wilkie
Professor Andrew Wilkie is the Nuffield Professor of Pathology at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the Department of Clinical Genetics, Oxford University...
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Ensuring your genes don’t affect your insurance
The Progress Educational Trust (PET)’s recent Wellcome-supported event ‘Risk Management: Breast Cancer, Business and Patents‘ looked at how insurance companies can and can’t use genetic information to...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 21/07/14
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome community.. Same genes drive maths and reading ability Around half of the genes that influence how well a child can read also play a role in their...
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The genetic building blocks of future healthcare
The Wellcome Trust has long been involved in the area of genomics, most notably funding the creation of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which spearheaded the UK contribution to the Human Genome...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 4/8/14
Our fortnightly look at research from around the Wellcome Trust community… 8.2% of our DNA is ‘functional’ Only 8.2% of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – or ‘functional’ – say...
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