September 11, 2018
A common dilemma faced by researchers is how to communicate their findings beyond the world of academia, to a wider audience. How can we share our research in an innovative way that’s both engaging and informative, whilst avoiding scientific language that may exclude non-specialists? With the help of King College London’s collaborative scheme for Early […]
July 17, 2016
TwinsUK researchers Professor Chris Hammond and Dr Katie Williams describe their research showing that increasing numbers of people are short-sighted in this article in The Conversation.
March 18, 2016
Stories from twins who discover their true zygosity in adulthood Over the 24 years of studying twins we have learnt that non-identical twins can look surprisingly similar to each other and that about 10% of identical twins have in fact significant differences in appearance or health. This has changed forever how we conduct our research, […]
January 29, 2016
The secret of how to live a long and healthy life has been sought after for years. New research from TwinsUK looked at the diversity of bacteria in people’s guts – the gut microbiome – to see if people who live longer, and importantly do not become frail, might have a bacterial advantage. The study used stool […]
December 17, 2015
 Studying DNA may be in my genes, literally. At the age of 14, I became fascinated by a book on the genetic revolution, and at the same time discovered that Rosalind Franklin was a distant relative through my maternal great-grandmother. I was hooked. Following eight years of graduate and post-graduate study in Genetics, I became […]
March 26, 2015
Gone are the days when research volunteers were kept in the dark and were uninformed about the terms of their participation in research. Fortunately, the last ten years has seen a shift from a paternalistic relationship between researchers and their research volunteers, towards a partnership. The evidence for this is the use of public advisory […]