The Wellcome Trust celebrates a year of remarkable achievement (2009)

The Wellcome Trust celebrates a year of remarkable achievement

From large-scale genetics, to innovative drug development, live-televised brain surgery and Charles Darwin, it has been a year of tremendous discoveries and achievement for the Wellcome Trust.

The 2009 Annual Review highlights many of the Trust's activities over the last 12 months.  The last 12 months saw the publication of the finished schistosome genome sequence. Responsible for 200 million cases of the disease schistosomiasis each year, medical researchers hope the sequence will lead to new treatments. The sequence is also teaching evolutionary biologists more about pivotal stages of evolution: the development of organs and the bilateral body plan.

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