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Feature: Advances with wolves – Professor Tim Coulson
Professor Tim Coulson, Imperial College London. When the testing of his model of environmental change was delayed by ethical issues about using human data, Professor Tim Coulson from Imperial College...
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Science Junkie gets In the Zone
Greg Foot BBC Science Presenter Greg Foot on bringing physiology alive during a summer of sport. This week is ‘Get In the Zone Week’. I know that because the last month has been a whirlwind of...
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Focus on Stroke
It’s estimated to cost the economy £8 billion per year in England. It causes more than 50 000 deaths every year in the UK and leaves hundreds of thousands more people disabled. A quarter of cases occur...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Water, Water Everywhere
The opening bars to Legionnaires’ Disease, a Health and Safety Executive sponsored video, are from ‘El Moldova’ (a tone poem called Má vlast by Smetana); it describes the river Vlatava which runs...
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It’s going to work better – how do we change commuter behaviour?
Photo by Dimitry B Standing at London Bridge underground station recently, I was startled by the disembodied voice of the Mayor brusquely advising caution around my travel plans over the Olympic...
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An interview with Sir David Attenborough
There are two things I clearly remember from my youth. The first is a book about animals I received as a gift from a wonderful, arty aunt. The second is being agog at The Living Planet. It’s almost...
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Lancet Series: Couch potatoes’ chips are up
In a post a while back I looked at the attempts to understand commuter behaviour in order to encourage active transport (e.g. cycling or walking). This is all very worthy but is there real value in the...
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Society Awards Themed Call: Health in a Changing World
Tom Anthony explains why our latest Society Awards are aimed at health and the environment, and how you might apply for this funding. The effects of climate change can seem remote, both geographically...
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Beating Diabetes: what can we learn from the SABRE study?
Blood glucose meter The SABRE study has hit the headlines for its research into the high levels of diabetes in minority ethnic communities. The study reveals the extent of ethnic differences in the...
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Q&A: Cesar Victora – 30 years of Brazil cohort studies
Birth cohort studies follow large numbers of people from birth, collecting information on the health, environmental and socio-economic factors that may affect their long-term health outcomes and human...
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Where is the weather?
Have you ever thought about how tall buildings could affect our health? High rise towers in big cities block air flow, resulting in bad ventilation and an increase in air pollution. High densities of...
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Feature: Keeping time – circadian clocks
Our planet was revolving on its axis, turning night into day every 24 hours, for 4.5 billion years – long before any form of life existed here. About a billion years later, the very first simple...
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Losing face? The symbolism of facial mutilation
Facial mutilation is a repugnant crime, but its medieval use as a punishment may have had some symbolic significance. Penny Bailey explores a Wellcome Trust-funded project on the history of facial...
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Milk, metabolism and making it pay
A cow eating Why do Scandinavian cows have good genes? How often do dairy cows have calves? Why are cows that produce more milk at greater risk of becoming infertile? I found answers to all these...
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On the rocks with a twist
The centenary of Robert Scott’s expedition to the South Pole is being celebrated this year, but what about some of the forgotten tales of the heroic age? I spoke to Dr Henry Guly about his research...
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Feature: The biggest poisoning in history
One of the more bitter ironies of human existence is the way the best of our intentions can fall foul of Murphy’s Law and wind up as paving stones on the proverbial road to hell. A recent, devastating...
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SNOWS on World Water Day
A woman collecting water from a river in the Masai village of Rosalin, Hai District of Tanzania. Water and sanitation are two of the most fundamental factors in health yet we still don’t know how best...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 3: Malawi
Scientists in Malawi working with ‘locals’ around 30km from the nearest hospital Over the course of four months, Barry J Gibb visited the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 5: Thailand
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art and Global Health project. In the latest of his diary...
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Weight-loss surgery – it’s not all about pounds and ounces
Would you donate a sample of butt fat for research? If asked, I would probably say no to letting someone take a chunk out of my ‘junk’. Fortunately for researchers at the Wellcome Trust Clinical...
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