Annual Review 2005
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Contents
Director’s statement: A year of discovery
Advancing knowledge
Supporting research to increase understanding of health and disease, and its societal context.
- Fruit-fly diets and longevity
- Mouse gene promotes germ cells
- How skeletal and muscle components are formed
- Relief and reward in the brain
- T-cell development in the thymus
- Chemical found in human eye makes mouse cells sensitive to light
- Symptoms of avian flu more diverse that expected
- Artesunate is better than quinine for severe malaria
- Bacterial infections are a major cause of death in African children
- New hearing screening ensures that infants are referred sooner
- Drugs help stroke-affected vision
- Fifties superbug returns
- Mark Harrison gets Templar Prize
- Preventing diabetes
- Global ethics
Using knowledge
Supporting the development and use of knowledge to create health benefit.
- Breathing rate can be measured through fingertip
- New implant helps rebuild faces
- The biotooth
- Tackling neglected diseases
- New dipstick helps detect several viruses simultaneously
- Mapping malaria
Engaging society
Engaging with society to foster an informed climate within which biomedical research can flourish.
- Big Picture series for post-16 learning
- New National Science Learning Centre opens
- Future Face exhibition at the Science Museum
- Hunterian Museum reopens
- Innovative debates
- People Awards
Developing people
Fostering a research community and individual researchers who can contribute to the advancement and use of knowledge.
- Protein complex accelerates important nuclear RNA-processing machine
- The role of the hippocampus in memory
- Protein complex has a special role in nervous system
- How heart asymmetry relates to congenital heart defects
- The development of mouse embryos
Facilitating research
Promoting the best conditions for research and the use of knowledge.
- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facilities
- The Structural Genomics Consortium
- An Oral History of Diabetes website
- Tritryp genomes sequenced
- ALSPAC insights
Developing our organisation
Using our resources efficiently and effectively.