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19 Apr, 2009

Mothers’ anxiety linked to child asthma risk

Posted by: ayasawada In: Medicine| News

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 [...]

02 Apr, 2009

April Imperial Podcast

Posted by: ayasawada In: Audio| Genetics| Podcast

On this month’s Imperial Podcast Gareth Mitchell looks at: turning buses into portable air pollution detectors, making nuclear fission more efficient and quick genetic testing for drug suitability. Highlights:

01.34 Professor Robin Grimes on how to get more energy out of nuclear fuel and the pros and cons of the nuclear option
08.31 Headlines from around the [...]

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 [...]

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.