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An engaging pair of Fellows
Dr Richard Barnett (left) and Dr Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellows Dr Kevin Fong and Dr Richard Barnett both trained as doctors at UCL medical school and they are both now Wellcome Trust...
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A burst from the blue – is bulimia nervosa really a modern disease?
Credit: Brasil2/iStockphoto. Named in a scientific paper for the first time in 1979, bulimia nervosa has been studied extensively since. But while researchers explore its causes, diagnosis and...
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Engaging Fellows: Kevin Fong
Dr Kevin Fong The Wellcome Trust’s first ever Engagement Fellows came into the Trust a couple of weeks ago to record a conversation about their different experiences in engaging the public with...
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Engaging Fellows: Richard Barnett
Dr Richard Barnett The Wellcome Trust’s first ever Engagement Fellows came into the Trust a couple of weeks ago to record a conversation about their different experiences in engaging the public with...
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BabyLab
Anyone can take part in scientific research – even those who have yet to walk or talk. Lauren Foster Mustardé, and her son, visit the Birkbeck Babylab. It’s not every day that a researcher asks to...
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Jolly good fellows: Wellcome-Beit Prize Fellowships
Dr Eva Frickel, Dr Steven Pollard and Dr Rhys Roberts. Credit: Wellcome Images Launched in 2009, the Wellcome-Beit Prize Fellowships recognise the best researchers to gain intermediate-stage Wellcome...
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That organ ‘the brain’
To mark Wellcome Collection’s latest enticing exhibition, over the next few weeks we’re running a short series highlighting some of the research into this fascinating organ. Is size everything? We know...
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Focus on stroke: Walk with me
A few weeks ago, I went up to the Hawkshead campus of the Royal Veterinary College to meet Dr Jim Usherwood, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow who studies locomotion, and ‘Bob’, a contraption designed...
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There’s more to apathy than sheer laziness
Researchers at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience may have found a biological mechanism that could explain apathy, or lack of motivation. As Dr Jen Middleton reports, the findings open the...
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From bench to field: Most advanced TB vaccine in pivotal trials
An eager trial participant in the MVA85A phase IIB infant trial in South Africa. Professor Helen McShane writes from the frontline of efforts to develop the first new TB vaccine in 90 years. The...
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In Ctrl: How much help do you want from your computer?
Helpful computer? When I tap my phone’s sound settings icon, it automatically switches to silent mode before I get to the menu to do it myself. The first time this happened, I was rather unnerved but...
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Piano plague in D minor
Why would 19th-century doctors want to ban piano lessons for girls? Did they truly believe that learning to play music could cause sexual and neurotic disorders? Or were there sociological reasons for...
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Food allergy and hyperactivity: histories of medical controversy
The journey of a new medical concept from radical theory to mainstream medicine is often dogged by controversy. Dr Matthew Smith (left) argues that such controversies are fuelled by simplistic,...
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Engaging us with science: Q&A with Erinma Ochu
I met Dr Erinma Ochu – public engagement specialist, writer and creative producer – to find out more about her new position as one of two new Engagement Fellows at the Wellcome Trust, the other being...
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Q&A: Dr Anoop Shah on using data from health records
Dr Anoop Shah Information from health records can be extremely useful in medical research, but at the moment not all the data can be extracted automatically. At University College London, Dr Anoop...
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Feature: deceptive appearances – engineering cartilage
An illustration of the changes in articular cartilage that occur in osteoarthritis. Credit: Medical Art Service, Munich, Wellcome Images. The tiny area of uncertainty that is inevitably left by...
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Quantum mechanics stinks
Our sense of smell has been in the news recently, with some new research published into how our noses detect different substances’ odours. Our other senses – sight, touch, taste and hearing – are well...
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Flogging a dead horse: genetics and the UK horsemeat scandal
Horsemeat for sale in Iceland The UK has been up in arms about the horsemeat scandal in recent weeks. But detecting horsemeat through genetics is harder than you think, writes Mark Jobling. We may live...
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Wellcome-Beit Fellowships
Schwann cells myelinating axons in the peripheral nervous system. Launched in 2009, the Wellcome-Beit Prize Fellowships recognise the best researchers to gain intermediate-stage Wellcome Trust...
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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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