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The dreadful and divine of surgery
Click to view slideshow. Surgical instruments: handsome or horrible? Their contrasting connotations as objects of both beauty and dread are explored in a new exhibition at the Hunterian Museum at the...
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Packed Lunch on skin
SEM of meshed skin graft over a burn. Packed Lunch is back! Our regular series of lunchtime talks returned last week with a fascinating encounter with Dr Isabel Jones, a surgeon in the Burns Unit at...
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Landmark surgery ends 10 year silence
Last week, news broke of a pioneering transplant that successfully restored the voice of a woman who had lost the ability to breathe on her own and had not spoken for 11 years. Brenda Jensen lost the...
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Can you cut it as a surgeon?
An ‘anonymous’ museum visitor attempting the procedure. Can members of the publics with no medical experience perform virtual keyhole surgery at a comparable level to professionals? Clio Heslop visited...
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Surgery at the Science Museum: A Retro Revival
The re-enactment of a 1980’s surgical operation. On the 15th August, Professor Roger Kneebone and his team from Imperial College London staged a surgical re-enactment at the Science Museum. Visitors...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Tonsil surgery
This film, although its purpose is not explicitly stated, is an important historical record showing pre-operative treatment of child-patients by the surgical team at King George Hospital, London. The...
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February 2012 public engagement events
February may bring on relentless wintry chills, but the activity of the Trust’s public engagement awards programme shows no signs of cooling down this month. Here’s a summary of what is on offer over...
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March 2012 public engagement events
Our monthly round-up of upcoming events supported through our public engagement awards. Let’s start with a bang, namely The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair in Birmingham next week. An...
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Focus on stroke: Predicting and preventing stroke
There will be about 150 000 strokes in the UK in 2012, among a population of 62 million. Crude arithmetic suggests your chance of having a stroke this year is, therefore, 0.24 per cent. But a variety...
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October 2012 Public Engagement Events
Our round-up of upcoming science and medical-themed events supported through our public engagement awards. Starting off with some free public artwork: Breathe is a large-scale outdoor video projection...
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Meet the Fellow: Q&A with Professor Roger Kneebone
Professor Roger Kneebone performs live simulations of surgery for the public. He is Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London and leads an interdisciplinery team creating unique...
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Smooth operator – the making of i-Snake®
Robots in the operating theatre may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but robotic devices are being used more and more, promising safer, more accurate and even scar-free surgery. People’s...
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Image of the Week: Pop-up surgery
This week, Sophie Tunstall-Behrens from our Engaging Science team gives us an insight into the world of the operating theatre… Our image of the week shows Professor Roger Kneebone, a Wellcome Trust...
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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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