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Feature: Take my breath away – obstructive sleep apnoea
Frank Govan fitting the apparatus that helps relieve the symptoms of his obstructive sleep apnoea Waking hundreds of times a night, gasping for breath, but with no recollection in the morning sounds...
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The latest buzz on insomnia
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this piece, Elizabeth Hull describes how experiments in fruit flies are uncovering the genetics of sleep....
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Your children’s sleep
This film is from a government-sponsored series aimed at parents and looking at different aspects of parenting in the 1940s. It was made by Realist Film Unit and comes to us courtesy of the BFI...
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Insomniac flies and the brain’s sleep switch
Scientists supported by the Wellcome Trust have identified the mechanism that tells the brain to sleep, a ‘pressure switch’ that controls the activity of sleep-promoting nerve cells in the brain. Ryan...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up 13.07.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust Community Cancer link to biopsy wounds Cancer surgery and biopsies may play a role in the progression of cancer according to new Wellcome...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Ivana Rosenzweig
Dr Ivana Rosenzweig is a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow based at King’s College London. As Consultant Neuropsychiatrist she investigates the role of sleep on our brains and the rare and complex...
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Image of the Week: The Dreamers
Seeing double? Perhaps it’s time for a nap! Or maybe it’s because we’re bringing you two images of dreamers this week. The first is from a 1796 etching made by Goya, perhaps the most famous of the set...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 18.04.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from our research community… Slowing down ageing Scientists have identified a new molecule that could be targeted to slow the ageing process, according to new Wellcome...
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