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The papers of the pioneers of modern genetics - including Francis Crick, James D Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin - have been collected together for the first…
The archive of NCT (National Childbirth Trust) documenting 60 years of the organisation's history, has been catalogued by the Wellcome Library and is available to access for…
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘…
Material from the controversial archive of Francis Crick goes on display for the first time as part of a new exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of…
A new study has been published looking at the experiences of ordinary people and their opinions of their care over the first 60 years of the National Health Service.
A vibrant false-coloured magnification of a caffeine crystal, a hypnotising image of dividing cancer cells and a hair-raising close-up of a hopping fly are just some of the…
The winners of the annual Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', were announced at an awards ceremony at the Wellcome…
The Wellcome Image Awards 2011, celebrating the most striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months, were…
People who have or are at risk of clinical depression could benefit from a new major medical research initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust. The University of Edinburgh has…
A captivating digital illustration portraying a personal experience of Crohn’s disease has been selected as the overall winner for the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards.
The hunt is on to find the next generation of undiscovered science writing talent: applications open today for the annual Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association…
The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', is now open for applications. The annual prize is now in its fourth year of…
Market bubbles that lead to financial crashes may be self-made because of instinctive biological mechanisms in traders’ brains that lead them to try to predict how others…
The Wellcome Image Awards are coming to more places than ever before, with exhibitions to be held all across the UK, including the Science Museum in London, as well as in the…