Autumn ‘Wellcome News’ out now
28 September 2011
Ever wonder what happens when you put Buzz Lightyear in an X-ray machine? So did artist Hugh Turvey. In a project supported by a Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award, he worked with staff from Yeovil District Hospital to reveal what everyday objects, including bicycles, toys and flowers, look like when X-rayed, helping people learn more about medical imaging in the process. The striking results are featured inside and on the cover of the autumn issue of 'Wellcome News'.
Also inside, read our in-depth feature about Professor Sara Rankin, a Wellcome Trust Investigator at Imperial College London, who is exploring the potential of stem cells found in our bone marrow to be used in tissue regeneration.
Another researcher working at Imperial College, Dr David Noonan tells us about his role on the innovative i-Snake® project and how he got into medical engineering as a career. We talk to Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Governor Professor Chris Fairburn to hear about his pioneering work to define, diagnose and treat eating disorders, including bulimia nervosa, and his ambitious new project about training therapists.
The Wellcome Trust's Head of Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health, Professor Danny Altmann, gives us his thoughts on how to advance an early research career. We take a close-up look at zebrafish in 'Nuts and bolts', and Wellcome Library's William Schupbach gives us a guide to a very special 18th-century chalk drawing from Wellcome Library's archives.
As ever, you'll find opinion columns, the latest news on the Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Library and Wellcome Collection, and updates on the Trust's funding and research activities inside. If you haven't seen these yet, download the new issue or subscribe to receive future issues for free.
We'd love to hear your comments, ideas or suggestions for this or future issues: email us and let us know.
Image: The cover image from the new issue of Wellcome News. Credit: inr-i Project (Hugh Turvey).
