Maximising the Health Benefits of Genetics and Genomics

This Wellcome Trust film is part of series on tackling five "challenges" to address some of the problems that confront human and animal health. It introduces the second of these challenges: maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics.

The video explains and attempts to demonstrate the value of archiving scientific research on how genomes function in health and disease. The film links the value of historical records to current research. It describes, by way of example, research on how cancer cells are grown in a research lab and then screened with known and new cancer drugs, through interviews with a cancer researcher and an archivist.

The video shows digitisation in action of archives of genome research and how accessible to scientist they need to be.