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Insomniac flies and the brain’s sleep switch
Scientists supported by the Wellcome Trust have identified the mechanism that tells the brain to sleep, a ‘pressure switch’ that controls the activity of sleep-promoting nerve cells in the brain. Ryan...
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Breakthrough in structural biology reveals ribosome secrets
Visualising the intricate machinery in cells is not just about the wonder of seeing the invisible. It also reveals vital information about how our cells work. Michael Regnier reports on a new method of...
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Image of the Week: GABA-A receptor
This image is based on the first X-ray structure of a GABAA receptor, the human GABAA beta3, recently published in Nature by Dr Paul Miller and Dr Radu Aricescu from the Wellcome Trust Centre for...
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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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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: 29/09/14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Immune system of newborn babies is stronger than previously thought The immune system of a newborn baby, although very...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 27.10.14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Treating diabetes with light-activated drugs A new method of treating type 2 diabetes has been developed by researchers at...
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Jonathan Glazer announced as new Screenwriting Fellow
Wellcome Trust Headquarters was transformed into a hive of showbiz activity this evening as the latest recipient of Wellcome Trust/BFI Screenwriting Fellowship, run in association with Film4, was...
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A positive step forward on the road to mitochondrial donation
Today the Department of Health has laid the regulations that set out how mitochondrial donation could potentially be allowed in the UK. The regulations will be debated and voted on by parliament in...
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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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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Rachel Freathy
Dr Rachel Freathy is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the birth weight of babies and what factors during pregnancy may influence...
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How the Wellcome Trust Spends its Money
The most recent Wellcome Trust annual report showed healthy returns on our investment portfolio, which should allow us to spend in excess of £4 billion in the period 2014-2019. But where do we spend...
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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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Call for Frontiers Innovators
Frontiers meetings stimulate innovation and provocative discussion about the future of health, helping to shape the Wellcome Trust’s strategy. The first in this year’s Frontiers series – ‘One Science:...
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The ethics of Zika trials in pregnancy
Exploring the ethics of involving pregnant women in clinical trials for diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for Zika virus is one of five new research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and...
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