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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human GeneticsAuthor: Oxford University
In the first decades of the 21st century, researchers are beginning to understand in detail how our genetic inheritance makes us who we are. At the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, our aim is to extend that understanding in order to gain a clearer insight into mechanisms of health and disease. Looking across all three billion letters of the human genetic code, we aim to pinpoint variant spellings and discover how they increase or decrease an individuals risk of falling ill. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Heart and the Head, Part 5
Monday, 16 November, 2015
Daniel Bulte, from the Department of Oncology, speaks about what happens when they discover an ‘incidental finding’. This is the final part of our evening of storytelling and music, where researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Jenner Institute, and Cancer Research UK, came together to tell stories about their lives as scientists, with live musical accompaniment from Oxford-based folk group “James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars”. It took place under the dinosaurs at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
