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FIRST PRIZE (拢1000 and a two-week media placement)

Angela Self, University College London, UK: Just In Time?

SECOND PRIZE (拢750)

Margaret O鈥橦ara, University of Birmingham, UK: Non-Invasive Diagnosis? Don鈥檛 hold your breath!

THIRD PRIZE (拢500)

Jennifer Carpenter, University of Edinburgh, UK: Viruses: Now boarding transatlantic fruit flies

RUNNERS-UP

Matilda Bradford, University of Aberdeen, UK: That Gut Feeling: Why schizophrenia may not be all in the mind

Kao Castle, University of Sydney, Australia: Legs Like a Supermodel

Lewis R. Dartnell, University College London, UK: Martian Death Rays

Marie-Claire Jenkins, University of East Anglia, UK: Machines, Intelligence and Human Interaction

Rowena Louise Long, University of Queensland, Australia: Combating the Seeds of Terror

Emma Louise McConnell, University of London, UK: Situations Vacant: New jobs for colonic bacteria

Nichola Raihani, University of Cambridge, UK: Who鈥檚 the King of the Castle?

Christopher Rice, Institute of Food Research, UK: Giving the Cold Shoulder: How Salmonella adapts when moved out from the cold

Claire Thompson, University of Sydney, Australia: Life at the Tail End: A citizen鈥檚 guide to the intestine

Arthur Wuster, University of Cambridge, UK: Fighting the Bacterial Communication War

The Science Essay Competition is held jointly by The Wellcome Trust and New 女生小视频. The winning essay will be published in New 女生小视频 on 6 October.