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Q&A: Veterinary Research: Lizzie Slack on immunology and cell signalling
Lizzie Slack Though the Wellcome Trust’s mission is to foster and promote biomedical research, this encompasses both human and animal health. The Trust supports a range of activities designed to...
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Q&A: Veterinary Research: Mandy Peffers on osteoarthritis
Mandy Peffers Although the Wellcome Trust’s mission is to foster and promote biomedical research, its mission encompasses both human and animal health. The Trust supports a range of activities designed...
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Scientist wins prize for improving welfare of lab mice
A study to reduce stress and anxiety in laboratory mice has won the 2010 NC3Rs prize for advances in animal welfare (Tuesday 25 January 2011). Mice are the most commonly used laboratory animals, with...
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Walking with … pigeons?
Pigeons flying in a flockThis movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. Dr Jim Usherwood studies the biomechanics of movement. As well as looking at the way people walk and run, he studies other...
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Neglected tropical diseases: Working with animals
Many of the parasites, bacteria and viruses that spread ‘neglected tropical diseases’ among the world’s poorest people can also infect livestock and other animals, while related species cause...
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The detail is in the devil
Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Credit: Wellcome Images. Two years ago Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute told us about her work on a cancer...
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The (neglected) ties binding human and animal health
A medical team at work in Kenya. Animal diseases make up 60 per cent of all human pathogens and have a significant impact on poverty. Yet for many years, the worst diseases were sorely neglected by the...
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New rabies virus identified
African civets are nocturnal, cat-like animals. A case of a child being bitten by a rabid civet has led researchers to a new species of virus that causes rabies. The new species is sufficiently...
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Q&A: Vicky Robinson – answering a difficult question with the 3Rs
A researcher handling a mouse. The use of animals in research is one of the most difficult and emotive ethical dilemmas confronting the life sciences. Few of us are comfortable with the thought, but,...
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Accelerating ageing research
Dr Ilaria Bellantuono of the MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing is one of the founders of ShARM (Shared Ageing Research Models), a new, not-for-profit...
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Why can’t we talk to the animals?
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Ben Ambridge describes one theory of why our pets don’t talk back. A sulky-looking chimpanzee As a...
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Milk, metabolism and making it pay
A cow eating Why do Scandinavian cows have good genes? How often do dairy cows have calves? Why are cows that produce more milk at greater risk of becoming infertile? I found answers to all these...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Dog Tapeworm
It might look like a beautiful flower, but this image of the week is more the stuff of nightmares! The picture above shows a dog tapeworm (Taenia pisiformis) taken using a light microscope. The image...
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Image of the Week: Endangered Mountain Gorilla
Our image of the week this week is of a young gorilla called Nyanjura, part of a small population of mountain gorillas from the Virunga volcanic mountain range in Africa. In 1981 the population size...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Angela Cassidy
Dr Angela Cassidy is a contemporary historian of science and medicine, and Wellcome Research Fellow at the Department of History, King’s College London. Her work, which focuses on bovine tuberculosis...
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