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History of Medicine: One woman’s poison
Portrait of Gesche Gottfried With the era of personalised medicine approaching it’s becoming clearer that what works for one person won’t necessarily for someone else: one man’s (or woman’s) medicine...
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Deadly silence
The anechoic chamber at UCL in London There are words you don’t want to hear when standing in a tiny window-less room that resembles a nuclear bunker and, “This would be a great place to set a horror...
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Packed Lunch: Glass half full
Smile Why do we tend to think happy thoughts? The latest Packed Lunch talk at Wellcome Collection featured Dr Tali Sharot discussing the neurological basis of optimism and you can read an article about...
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Jolly good fellows
Dr Jimmy Whitworth The Academy of Medical Sciences this week announced its newly elected fellows. The new fellows include Dr Jimmy Whitworth, The Trust’s Head of International Activities. Over a dozen...
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More What Ifs
The police bee hive of Policing Genes Over the last few months, the What If… exhibit in the windows of the Wellcome Trust building has been turning heads with its spectacular imaginings of science...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: The left hand of Anna Roentgen
The left hand of Anna Roentgen. Photoprint from a radiograph by Wilhelm Roentgen, 1895. Today is International Lefthanders Day, and is marked here by our Wellcome Image of the Month: a sinister-looking...
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Learning to fly: Fruit flies, ageing and dementia
The eye of the fly Prior to meeting them for the first time, I always do some research into the scientists I’m due to film. This time, though, Linda Partridge from UCL’s Institute of Healthy Ageing was...
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Vive la revolution! Dr David Gems on ageing
Dr David Gems Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn theorised that paradigm shifts are essential for the progress of science. Dr David Gems from University College London talks us through his group’s...
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Q&A: Dr Anoop Shah on using data from health records
Dr Anoop Shah Information from health records can be extremely useful in medical research, but at the moment not all the data can be extracted automatically. At University College London, Dr Anoop...
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