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 [...]
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 [...]
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.