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Scientists from the University of Manchester have discovered that microbes in smaller groups are more likely to mutate, resulting in higher rates of antibiotic resistance.

Wellcome’s chief executive officer, John-Arne Røttingen, announces the backing of the development of new data and tools for accelerating “living evidence synthesis…

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One in ten women (9.8%) and roughly one in seventy men (1.4%), when asked “Has anyone actually made you have sex with them, against your will?”, said yes, according to new…

Seven leading African researchers are the recipients of major funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Department for International Development (DFID) to establish cutting-…

A new study funded by the Wellcome Trust will investigate how environmental changes over the next 20–30 years may impact the way we eat, in the UK and worldwide.

Wellcome is a signatory to the Funders joint statement on the use of generative AI tools and has developed this policy to provide additional guidance when applying to…

Wellcome has today published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring.

Advice that will help you apply for Wellcome contract opportunities. 

These guidelines set out the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence requirements, which you need to meet to comply with our open access policy.

The Nobel prizes give a human face to science. But does celebrating individuals risk undermining a collaborative research culture?

Find out about contract opportunities to support Wellcome's mission to improve human health – including an overview of each project, who can apply and how.

New biomedical techniques, like next-generation genome sequencing, are creating vast amounts of data and transforming the scientific landscape. Researchers are racing to keep…

Thousands of lives around the world could be saved every year if we can develop new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections. The problem we need to fix is how to make…

Exercise has been shown to improve depression, but we don’t know how it works exactly. We spoke to Professor Jonathan Roiser about his new research study that could help fill…

A new foundation launches today with the ambition to reform the global food system, enabling us to feed a growing global population with healthy food from a healthy planet.

The damaging effects of a warming planet are not limited to the environment. COP26 in Glasgow was an ideal opportunity for world leaders to demonstrate that they understand…

Food homogeneity or the lack of diversity in the food we eat has a dangerous impact on climate change, food security and human health.

The level of immunity to the recently circulating H7N9 influenza virus in an urban and a rural population in Vietnam is very low, according to the first population-level…