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Pork tapeworms and international fellows
Professor Hector Garcia Every year the Wellcome Trust offers fellowships to support scientists at different career stages. Professor Hector H. Garcia from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and...
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A Seizing Experience
In the latest of our shortlisted entries to the 2011 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Stuart Farrimond describes a distressing experience and looks at the mechanisms behind it. The hard wooden...
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Epilepsy in East Africa
Workshop session with people with clinical officers and nurses. In an area endemic for malaria and other infections, one might overlook the burden of epilepsy in areas like Kilifi, Kenya. A group of...
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The Mystery of the split-brain
In the latest of our shortlisted entries to the 2011 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, Jerome Langford tells us how the brain is more than the sum of its parts. Very few people can claim to have...
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March 2012 public engagement events
Our monthly round-up of upcoming events supported through our public engagement awards. Let’s start with a bang, namely The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair in Birmingham next week. An...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 2): Fly on the wall
Drosophila: the model model organism; the humble fruit fly with a noble (not to mention Nobel) place in the history of science. Having learned about its importance in genetics and developmental...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Nichola Lax
With mitochondrial replacement therapy in the news at the moment, following a positive government response to the public consultation on the technique, we thought it would be good to talk to someone...
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Electricity – depicting epilepsy in a feature film
The Wellcome Trust’s first drama feature film co-funded with the BFI was released in cinemas nationwide last week. Starring Agyness Deyn as Lily O’Connor, a young woman with temporal lobe epilepsy, the...
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Wellcome Research Round-up: 26.01.15
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… New insight into genetics of antimalarial drug resistance A global research collaboration has identified 20 mutations in the...
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