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I’ve got a question for you… Can you eat this wedge of lime without wincing?
Most people can’t, but it is possible! Just eat the small red berry, called miracle fruit, before the lime. This berry, named ‘Synsapalum dulcificum’ by experts, makes all sour, bitter and spicy foods taste sweet!

Thanks to a friend, I recently discovered two brilliant games that are really harnessing the potential of crowdsourced science and multiplayer online  communities.
Signtific lab takes a big question (What will happen in the future?) and shuffles it with a simple card game and your imagination. Each ‘trial’ focuses on a simple question (the last one [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Pregnant women experiencing high levels of anxiety run a higher risk of their child developing asthma, according to Trust-funded researchers.
A study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found that the higher the level of anxiety in an expectant mother, the higher the likelihood that their [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi on the Wellcome Trust website.
Research part funded by the Wellcome Trust shows how HIV continues to evolve rapidly in an arms race against our immune system – upping the challenge to scientists developing an HIV vaccine.
An international team of researchers found a correlation between key immune system genes and mutations that allow [...]

By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
A study conducted at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility in Cambridge has demonstrated the first successful treatment for severe peanut allergy.