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The judging panel for the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been announced. Chaired by Clive Anderson, former barrister, comedy writer and presenter, the panel includes…

115 years of malaria data collected in Africa, described today in Nature, gives the most detailed picture yet of where efforts to control malaria infection are being won and…

For some, pain means punishment; others believe it brings them closer to God. Bodily pain is not only physical, it’s cultural too. Join a prominent group of thinkers on…

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 Wari people have found themselves alone in the face of an environmental disaster. Droughts and extreme cold have destroyed their agriculture and access to clean water.…

Thomas Wright has been announced as the winner of the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize for ‘Circulation’, his biography of William Harvey.

Ten years in the making, ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

Wellcome Collection is calling on the public to loan or donate objects and become co-creators of its new temporary exhibition, ‘Things’.

‘High Society’ is now open in Wellcome Collection, running until 27 February 2011.

Six months on from the first case of COVID-19, the pandemic is accelerating and spreading into new areas. Jeremy Farrar talks about the lessons we learned and the long-term…

“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” - Anton Chekhov*

Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.

The winners of the Wellcome Photography Prize 2020, chosen from thousands of entries from 127 countries.

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…

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.

We were deeply saddened to hear about the death of Sir John Sulston this week. John was an outstanding figure in UK biological and medical science and in Wellcome’s history.

‘Georgie Meadows: Stitched drawings’ brings together 20 textile artworks that explore personal experiences of ageing and dementia. Meadows, a Monmouth-based artist and…

The Opera Group collaborates with the Institute of Psychiatry on ‘The Lion’s Face’, a new opera about dementia.

‘Fun with Cancer Patients’ is a unique project from artist Brian Lobel, alongside Fierce Festival and Birmingham’s Teenage Cancer Trust. Supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts…

Peter James, Rose Tremain, Nick Coleman, John Coates, Mohammed Hanif and Thomas Wright are today announced as the six shortlisted authors for the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book…