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The act of giving blood is associated with notions of community and contributing to the greater good. But blood services today are an increasingly complex business clouded by…

Mark Henderson, Science Editor of ‘The Times’, is to join the Wellcome Trust as its new Head of Communications, it is announced today.

Students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales today receive the results of their A-level examinations. The number of students taking A-level sciences and mathematics has…

Hilary Leevers, Head of Education and Learning at Wellcome, comments on the provision for professional development for teachers in the government’s 2017 budget announcement.

A region at the front of the brain ‘lights up’ when we experience beauty in a piece of art or a musical excerpt, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and…

Explore the unexpected qualities of your vocal cords at Wellcome Collection’s late event. Sounds of chattering, squawking and singing will fill Wellcome Collection as the…

Trying to keep an image we’ve just seen in memory can leave us blind to things we are ‘looking’ at, according to the results of a new study supported by the Wellcome Trust.

The Department for Education and Skills and the Wellcome Trust have come together to deliver their joint vision of excellence in science teaching, and will invest more than £…

Museum visits, science festivals and theatre performances could all contribute to learning about science, but the UK science education community - from schools and the…

The Wellcome Trust aims to invest £5 billion over the next five years to improve health, as it launches a new strategic framework focussed on advancing the best ideas in…

Wellcome’s outgoing Director reflects on a decade of progress and looks ahead at the opportunities to improve health globally.

Research culture could greatly improve if we addressed short-termism and job insecurity, says Professor Katrina Lythgoe.

Kalaiyashni Puvanendran introduces Wellcome's anti-racist principles and toolkit – a framework for how to be anti-racist at Wellcome. 

The Wellcome Photography Prize announces its 2021 winners, chosen from photographs exploring the human side of three urgent health challenges: mental health, infectious…

From vans with cinemas in the back to electric signs flashing warnings about maggots, clean teeth and spitting, you couldn’t ignore health in interwar Bermondsey. ‘Here Comes…

This report identifies longitudinal datasets from around the world and highlights some that offer promising opportunities for research into depression, anxiety and psychosis…

The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple current estimates from the World Health Organization, according to a multinational study published online in the…

As we publish our annual report, Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome, shares her outlook on the critical role for science in solving urgent health challenges facing everyone.

People in the UK have little awareness of what ‘antibiotic resistance’ means and how it might affect their health, according to new research commissioned by the Wellcome…

The Wellcome Photography Prize commissioned five photographers from five different countries to explore the mental health repercussions of isolation due to Covid-19.