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Genetic variants in a region of the genome linked to our immune response have been linked to an increased risk of podoconiosis, a disfiguring and disabling leg swelling…

People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite their very differently shaped feet, according…

From today, pupils at every school and college across the UK will get the opportunity to learn how their bodies work during exercise, movement and rest with free experiment…

Celebrating 150 years of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London, Wellcome Collection opens its doors for a late night extravaganza…

From Icarus to i-Limbs, Wellcome Collection’s major summer exhibition, ‘Superhuman’, explores the extraordinary ways people have sought to improve, adapt and enhance their…

The discovery of a gene that causes a form of hereditary spastic paraplegia may provide scientists with an important insight into what causes axons, the stems of our nerve…

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…

Researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to measure brain activity in large populations of nerve cells at the resolution of individual cells. The technique…

Bedlam has long been a byword for chaos. Now a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection opens the doors to the historic asylum from which it derives. Through the lens of the…

The latest instalment of Contagious Cities explores Hong Kong’s experience of pandemics and the cultural and social impacts of disease on its community.

Climate change causes more extreme weather events like flooding – and flood impacts can have health risks. What is it like growing up with floods as part of daily life?

A million Rohingya refugees in crowded shelters with poor sanitation – ideal conditions for infections to spread. Here’s how to stop these deadly outbreaks.

From mosaic-making to circus arts, Martin Smith, Head of Policy Lab at Wellcome, shares four projects we’re partnering with to inspire creativity in our policy work.

The winning images from the 2011 Wellcome Image Awards.

The winning images from the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards.

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Affordable Healthcare in India’.

The winning images from the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards.

Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a pioneering technique which enables them for the first time to successfully transfer DNA between two human eggs. The…