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Regeneration: Taking stock
Ian Wilmut (Copyright: MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine) Professor Sir Ian Wilmut was formerly Director of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Famously, he led...
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Working at the edge: a Q&A with Doug Turnbull
Doug Turnbull The University of Newcastle’s Doug Turnbull is part of a team (with Professors Mary Herbert and Alison Murdoch) that is developing a technique to prevent inherited genetic conditions...
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Sharing science
Andrew Bastawrous, an eye surgeon at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, won last year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award with an article explaining the importance of his research...
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Q&A: research using patient data
(Image credit: Wikipedia/jfcherry) There has been a lot of discussion lately about the huge benefits that could come from research using patient data, but what does that actually mean? How is the data...
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Rising to the global challenge
Mark Palmer Tackling health problems around the world demands a global response. With a 100-year history of strategic international collaboration, MRC scientists today collaborate with researchers in...
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Painless: a Q&A with Geoff Woods
Geoff Woods (Image copyright: Geoff Woods) How can studying rare diseases help those with more common conditions? To mark Rare Disease Day, Ellen Charman speaks to Professor Geoff Woods about how his...
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Q&A: Research on the wards
Chris Lerpiniere (Image copyright: Chris Lerpiniere) We know that clinical research relies on doctors and willing patients, but what about nurses? Chris Lerpiniere is a Senior Research Nurse on the...
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Q&A: Sharing your research with parliamentarians
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Medical Research, which the MRC supports, brought parliamentarians and scientists together for an event in Parliament House on June 16. MRC-funded researcher...
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Q&A: What it takes to be on an MRC board
Moira Whyte (Image: Academy of Medical Sciences) It’s that time of year when we open up applications for new members of our boards and panels. Here Professor Moira Whyte, Head of Respiratory Medicine...
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Q&A: The ins and outs of the Clinical Research Capabilities and Technologies...
An MRI scan of a human head (Image credit: Wikipedia/everyone’s idle) Today Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the recipients of our Clinical Research Capabilities and Technologies...
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