Epic Games and Wellcome launch Developing Beyond a $500,000 games development challenge
Epic Games and Wellcome are inviting games developers based in Europe to participate in a new $500,000 year-long development competition Developing Beyond.
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Africa and Asia: building strong research ecosystems
Developing the next generation of research leaders and the ecosystems they work in.
New Wellcome Collection game asks: Who’s the Pest?
Wellcome Collection today lets loose armies of digital ants to terrorise gamers in ‘Who’s the Pest?’ But in this ant-filled and addictively frantic strategy game, the…
Wellcome Trust offers chance to feature in 'Criminel', a noir detective game
The Wellcome Trust is offering members of the public the opportunity to have their face featured in 'Criminel', a noir detective mystery game due for release via the App…
Open access guidance for Wellcome Centres and Africa and Asia Programmes
This guidance sets out how we expect Wellcome Centres and Programmes to meet our open access policy, how authors should acknowlege our funding, and how open access funds can…
Crowdsourcing neuroscience: new games added to The Great Brain Experiment
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL have found that by using a mobile app, it is possible to gather, on a large scale, the type of information…
Semi-finalists announced for $500,000 Games Development Challenge: Developing Beyond
Human evolution, the Black Death and life on Mars are some of the themes chosen by the semi-finalists selected for Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development…
$500,000 video games challenge Developing Beyond reveals finalists
Games exploring life on Mars, plant breeding and the legacy of the Black Death have made it to the final of Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development competition…
Seed wins $500,000 Developing Beyond Video games final
A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…
Wellcome Trust initiative links science to the Olympic and Paralympic Games for everyone in 2012
How do athletes move so fast and jump so high? As the world focuses on the extraordinary feats of human performance that will take place in London next summer, the Wellcome…
Mobile games can be reliable tools for conducting psychology experiments, UK researchers find
Initial findings from one of the largest cognitive science experiments ever conducted have shown that mobile games can be used to reliably address psychology questions,…
Drug-resistant malaria has spread to critical border regions of South-east Asia
Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to critical border regions of South-east Asia, seriously threatening global malaria control and elimination programmes, according…
Monkeys provide malaria reservoir for human disease in South-east Asia
Monkeys infected with an emerging malaria strain are providing a reservoir for human disease in South-east Asia, according to research published today. The Wellcome Trust-…
Largest ever dataset on individual deaths in Africa and SE Asia reveals changing health
An unprecedented insight into the changing health of people across Africa and Asia - including the fluctuating burdens of HIV, malaria and childhood mortality - is revealed…
Clean delivery kits linked to substantial reduction in neonatal deaths in South Asia, study shows
Providing clean delivery kits and improving birthing practices could halve the number of neonatal deaths following home births in South Asia, according to research funded by…
The Wellcome Trust invites researchers to gamify their PhDs
An innovative new way of communicating science research launches today with Gamify Your PhD, a project from the Wellcome Trust that brings together researchers and games…
Bacterial shoot ‘em up wins out in Gamify Your PhD project
After a two-day games hack in which scientists and games developers came together to create video games from doctoral research, a bacterial shoot-em-up game, ‘Dysbiosis’, has…
Grants awarded: International Engagement Awards
Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘International Engagement Awards’. International Engagement Awards have been replaced by the Public…
NHS set to benefit from UK-led technologies
Video games, pioneering gene therapies and new medical devices are set to transform treatments on the NHS, with support from the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust.