Wellcome Science
Read about some of the exciting discoveries made by researchers we fund, as well as the broader context - what are the key scientific issues of the day? How is science changing our views of life? What is the medical impact of advances in knowledge?
Please note that 'Wellcome Science' is no longer published.
Issue 7: February 2008
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Featuring:
- Speak your mind: Treating mental illness in India
- Deadly synergy: HIV and TB in South Africa
- The immune conversation: Listening in to the development of T cells
- Power drain: Mitochondria and human disease
- Science entrepreneurs: From start-up to big business
Issue 6: July 2007
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Featuring:
- Facing up to food: Taste, appetite and behaviour
- Decisions, decisions: How emotion influences our choices
- Happy families: Lesbian mothers, IVF and child development
- Fantastic journies: The amazing route-finding abilities of nerves
- Fear factor: The genetics of anxiety
Issue 5: February 2007
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Featuring:
- Children of the 90s: Tracking 15 years of children's health
- Helping hands: The origins of altruism
- Pressure points: The pros and cons of stress
- Pitch imperfect: The brain, music and tone deafness
- Under African skies: Building a case for childhood vaccinations
Issue 4: November 2006
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Featuring:
- Seeing into the past: Bones, genes and human history
- A rich soup of ideas: How did life on Earth begin?
- The tree of life: How genetics has changed our view of life
- Sound advice: The benefits of neonatal hearing screening
- The matrix reloaded: Getting under the skin of wound healing
Issue 3: September 2006
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Featuring:
- The placebo effect: Working out how it works
- Venus and Mars: The reality of human sex differences
- Like clockwork: The molecules and medicine of circadian rhythms
- Worms twice a day: Why parasites could be the prescriptions for allergies
- Liver life: Cell death could mean new life for the liver
Issue 2: March 2006
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Featuring:
- Stem cells: Time for the clinic or pause for thought?
- Evolution in action: How HIV is changing our genetic make-up
- The joy of X: A revealing look at the X chromosome
- This immortal coil: What chance of a lengthier lifespan?
- Surprise package: Why there's more to DNA structure than a double helix
- It takes two: How the brain handles us and them
Issue 1: October 2005
Download issue 1 [PDF 2.8MB]
Featuring:
- Avian flu: A real and present danger
- Big brains: Why we can out-think a chimp
- Reading minds: In search of consciousness in the brain
- Flower power: RNA interference hits the clinic
- Dissecting diabetes: A complex disease reveals its secrets
- A new genetics: MicroRNAs rewrite the textbooks

