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New funding scheme launched: Sustaining Health
Today the Trust launches its newest funding scheme, ‘Sustaining health’. The scheme aims to support pilot projects that address the interplay between environment, nutrition and health, with a key focus...
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Elizabeth Blackwell: the first women to qualify as a doctor in America
Elizabeth Blackwell. Photomechanical print by Swaine. by Sarah Blackmore, University of Bristol Most people, if asked to name historical influential females in the world of medicine, would probably...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Raspberry
The detail on this succulent raspberry is not what you would expect from a normal still life, because this image depicts a raspberry captured with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The raspberry...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Vitamin C
This colourful image is reminiscent of computer-generated fractal pattern, but is in fact vitamin C crystals seen under a light microscope. Vitamin C is the left-handed (levo) form of ascorbic acid...
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Fighting fit: How dietitians tested if Britain would be starved into defeat
Congratulations to Laura Dawes, whose entry to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize was highly commended by the judges and published on the Guardian Science Blog today. Her piece tells of a crucial...
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Life-saving radio
Two men recording a pre-recorded spot for the radio show. Can mass media save lives? Marta Tufet on the first randomized control trial of this in Burkina Faso. A farmer in Burkina Faso turns on the...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up
For a trial period of two months we’ll be bringing you a fortnightly update of news from our researchers. Here’s the second edition, we hope that you find it useful. Carb overload New research funded...
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Image of the Week: Varroa Parasitic Mite
This week’s image is of the little mite that might cause the end of food production as we know it. The varroa parasitic mite attacks the honey bee populations needed to pollinate a range of valuable...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up
The Wellcome Trust research round-up brings you news from our research community every fortnight. Young male smokers could have fatter sons Men who start smoking in their childhood could be more likely...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Lian Thomas
As part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project People, Animals and Zoonoses (PAZ), Dr Lian Thomas has carried out some fascinating work using GPS trackers on pigs to investigate the spread disease. We...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up 09/06/14
Our fortnightly round-up up of news from the Wellcome Trust research community. ‘Map of pain’ reveals sensitivity in forehead and fingertips “Where does it hurt?” is the first question asked of anybody...
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Wellcome Research Round-Up 23/06/14
Our fortnightly round-up of stories from the Wellcome Trust research community… Achilles’ heel in drug-resistant bacteria A weakness in the outer membrane of bacteria has been identified by researchers...
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How the Wellcome Trust can play a part in sustaining global health
The Wellcome Trust is committed to funding research that will lead to improvements in global health. We are increasingly aware of the importance of the connections between environment, nutrition and...
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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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Sustaining Health: Linking environment, nutrition and health
The Wellcome Trust is increasingly aware of the links between environment, nutrition and health. To help examine the role of science and technology on climate and health, and discuss potential levers...
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Shaping our Sustaining Health initiative
The city of New York came to a standstill on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people joined the People’s Climate march. Chants of “Show me what democracy looks like – This is what democracy looks...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Lindsay Hall
Dr Lindsay Hall wants to understand what’s going on in your guts. She’s a senior lecturer in gastrointestinal science at the University of East Anglia and holds a Wellcome Trust New Investigator grant....
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 10.11.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Researchers re-construct the early stages of embryo development Scientists supported by the Wellcome Trust have assembled...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 23/02/15
Our fortnightly round-up of work from the Wellcome Trust community… The secret life of pollinators in the city Cities should not be overlooked as important havens for bees according to research by a...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 30.03.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… New insight into TB immune evasion A new version of a gene, that may help to explain why some people are more susceptible to TB than...
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