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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: 08.12.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Competition and climate change may help exotic parasites spread to UK honeybees Scientists have found that an exotic...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 09/03/2015
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… New therapy developed to treat lung cancer Scientists have developed a new technique that uses gene therapy and stem cell therapy in...
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Image of the Week: Genetic map of the British Isles
Image courtesy of Stephen Leslie et al and Nature Legend: Map of the UK showing clustering of individuals based on genetics, and its striking relationship with geography. Each of the genetic clusters...
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Image of the Week: Endangered Mountain Gorilla
Our image of the week this week is of a young gorilla called Nyanjura, part of a small population of mountain gorillas from the Virunga volcanic mountain range in Africa. In 1981 the population size...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 20.04.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… A bright future for the mountain gorilla The first project to sequence the whole genomes of mountain gorillas has left scientists...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 04.05.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust Community A kick in the teeth for HIV Scientists have found that the human immune system may be capable of handling high bursts of HIV activity...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up 01.06.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust Community Understanding cancer’s origin A quarter of our facial skin cells may have cancer-associated mutations, according to a new study from...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up 27.07.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust Community Worldwide genetic link discovered for Inflammatory Bowel Disease The underlying genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are...
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Genome-editing research: not just a question for scientists
The Wellcome Trust is proud to support the development of cutting-edge science, but we are also aware of the importance ensuring that new technologies are used responsibly. The CRISPR-Cas9...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 12.10.15
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Hardwiring happiness? There is a strong relationship between positive behaviour and the wiring of your brain, according to...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 09.11.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Fly-tipping A small molecule called microRNA (miRNA) may help fruit flies control their movements, according to new research...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 07.03.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Deep roots Complete sequencing of Aboriginal Australian men’s Y chromosome reveals a long genetic history that stretches back 50,000...
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Image of the Week: Socialising the Genome
Genomics is fast becoming part of everyday healthcare, with DNA already being used to help predict and manage conditions such as cancer and heart disease. But how comfortable does the everyday person...
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Image of the Week: The experimental diet that mimics a rare genetic mutation
This is an excerpt and image taken from the article, ‘The experimental diet that mimics a rare genetic mutation’ by Peter Bowes, published by Mosaic. A group of people in Ecuador have a form of...
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