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Archive for February, 2009

22 Feb, 2009

New therapy cracks peanut allergy

Posted by: ayasawada In: Medicine| News

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.

16 Feb, 2009

Routes

Posted by: ayasawada In: Genetics| video

See Greg in the second webisode of Routes (funded by the Wellcome Trust — yep, that’s my plug ^_-), the interactive website/game that explores how genes make you you, with a side helping of mini-games and a larger murder-mystery plot. A great example of multi-layered, interactive science communication and is proving a hit (something like [...]

16 Feb, 2009

February Imperial Podcast

Posted by: ayasawada In: Podcast

Am linking a little late, but here’s the February edition of the Imperial College podcast, presented as ever by Gareth — currently the 27th most followed radio presenter on Twitter.
Highlights:

01.24 Professor Steve Bloom discusses the quest for safe, effective anti-obesity drugs
11.02 Headlines from around the College
13.10 Daniella Ford and Mark Shuttleworth on translating for computers
21.32 [...]

09 Feb, 2009

Genome-wide studies reveal new heart disease genes

Posted by: ayasawada In: Genetics| News

By Mun-Keat Looi on the Wellcome Trust website.
Data from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) have helped uncover ten new genes linked with heart disease.
The findings, revealed through three genome-wide association studies published in ‘Nature Genetics’, demonstrate the value of large-scale genomic studies in discovering leads that could aid the development of new [...]