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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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Feature: Ancient Egypt and a pioneer of palaeopathology
An original grave photo from the excavation reports (grave 686 from cemetery 89). At the start of the last century, a team of archaeologists began a race against the clock to rescue thousands of human...
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A Mitey Film
I knew nothing about house dust-mites on the day I went filming. As far as I knew, I was simply making a film about a potential breakthrough treatment for asthma on behalf of the Wellcome Trust’s...
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The Human Body: Its Scope, Limits and Future
What do shark’s teeth have to do with human enhancement? Or how about sea horses with reproductive technologies? Come along to Manchester Museum this autumn to find out! Over the last few months, we’ve...
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Wellcome to the (Cell) Matrix
At the heart of the research focus of the Cell-Matrix Research Centre, in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, is how cells interact with their local microenvironment (or...
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The young scientists of tomorrow in a workshop for today
Students and demonstrator at the workshop ‘A Question of Taste’ is a molecular biology and evolution workshop for students aged 16+. At Nowgen, instead of using public engagement specialists, the...
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Engaging us with science: Q&A with Erinma Ochu
I met Dr Erinma Ochu – public engagement specialist, writer and creative producer – to find out more about her new position as one of two new Engagement Fellows at the Wellcome Trust, the other being...
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 1): Come fly with me
For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics. But as biological understanding and...
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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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Constructing Cancers
Cancer – with its associations of death and suffering – has motivated much laboratory and clinical research since 1900, underpinning the emergence of institutions central to modern biomedicine....
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