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Replay: Walking on fire
Over the past few years, the Wellcome Trust has made over 100 films about science, medicine and their crossover with culture. In a new series, our Multimedia Editors highlight some films you may have...
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Does it matter where your genes come from?
The Progress Educational Trust (PET) project ‘Genes, Ancestry and Racial Identity: Does It Matter Where Your Genes Come From?’ was conceived as a response to the increasing prominence of controversies...
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The detail is in the devil
Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Credit: Wellcome Images. Two years ago Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute told us about her work on a cancer...
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Telling tails: telomere length in early life predicts lifespan
A zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) Whether it’s the lines on our palms, the lumps on our heads or the pattern of our moles, for thousands of years, we humans have been looking to our bodies for...
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William Cookson and Miriam Moffatt: joined-up thinking
Credit: Wellcome Images In late 2011, Professors William Cookson and Miriam Moffatt became the Wellcome Trust’s first Joint Senior Investigators. Anjana Ahuja went to meet them at the National Heart...
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The naming of the genes
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Audrey Nailor on where scientists get their wonderful names for things. Cheap Date. ShavenBaby. Tinman....
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