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Mill Hill Essays
2010 Mill Hill Essays
- The 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic: don’t panic but you are all going to die - Peter Coombs
- The 2009 outbreak of pandemic influenza and the measures to contain the pandemic and characterise the virus.
- A dangerous occupation - Zhores Medvedev
- Early life and education in Soviet Russia during the second world war and immediate post-war years, and the influence of Trofim Lysenko on Soviet science.
- Bringing it all back home: next-generation sequencing technology and you - Mike Gilchrist
- Gene sequencing has helped to transform biomedical science. Details of how high-throughput sequencing works and what we can learn from its results.
- Immortality and obscurity - Harriet Groom
- An essay-review of Rebecca Skloot’s best-selling book about Henrietta Lacks, which won the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The essay explains why HeLa cells are both remarkable and very useful to science.
- Conquistadores and cot death - Marianne Neary
- An interesting link between research into cot death and adaptation to life at high altitude. This essay was shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award 2010.
- Is immunotherapy the ultimate solution for Alzheimer’s disease? - Marina Lynch
- What Alzheimer’s disease is and how immunological therapies are showing great promise as treatments for Alzheimer’s.
- Lithium, manic depression and beyond - Qiling Xu
- Lithium's pharmacological effects, its use in bipolar affective disorder and its effects on major developmental signalling pathways.
- Translation: beating scientific swords into medical ploughshares - John Galloway
- Translational research helps to bridge the gap between basic biomedical science and clinical benefits for patients.
- What makes bone marrow such a versatile resource for curing human diseases? - Thomas Elliott
- Why bone marrow is an important therapeutic tool.This essay won the 2010 NIMR Human Biology Essay Competition for local schools.
- Book review: Life Ascending - Michael Sargent
- A short review of the book Life Ascending, by Nick Lane. One of the selection of ten science books, reviewed by members of NIMR staff
- Book review: Living with Enza - Michael Sargent
- Short review of Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, by Mark Honigsbaum
- Book review: The Age of Wonder - Frank Norman
- Short review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes.
- Book review: Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies - Michael Sargent
- Short review of Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies, by Peter Gluckman & Mark Hanson.
- Book review: 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Frank Norman
- Short review of 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know, by Mark Henderson.
- Book review: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - Vicky Millins
- Short review of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.
- Book review: Invisible Frontiers - Paul Driscoll
- Short review of Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene, by Stephen S. Hall.
- Book review: The Billion Dollar Molecule - Paul Driscoll
- Short review of The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company’s Quest for the Perfect Drug, by Barry Werth.
- Book review: God’s Philosophers - Jose Saldanha and Alessandro Pandini
- Short review of God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science, by James Hannam.
- Book review: Heart of a Dog - Frank Norman
- Short review of Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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