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World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly have today committed to tackling the rise in drug resistant infections.

Insights into how the brain compensates for temporary hearing loss during infancy, such as that commonly experienced by children with glue ear, have been revealed in a…

A large international study has identified several genetic variants that increase susceptibility to asthma in the population. Scientists hope the findings will help to focus…

Antibiotics have been saving millions of lives for decades, but we’ve now reached a point where we need to save antibiotics. A global research strategy funded by Wellcome…

The extent to which vitamin D deficiency may increase susceptibility to a wide range of diseases is dramatically highlighted in research published today. Scientists have…

This is our response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's (HFEA) consultation on modernising the HFE Act 1990. 

This report brings together the literature, evidence and opinions from key thought leaders to help create a plan for delivering an electron microscopic-resolution connectome…

Wellcome's response to some journals discouraging researchers from making Author Accepted Manuscripts open access.

‘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…

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.

How can someone with perfectly normal hearing become deaf to the world around them when their mind is on something else? New research funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests…

Brain scans of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have such difficulty…

Medication and behavioural interventions help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) better maintain attention and self-control by normalising activity…

Wellcome responds to the announcement from the UK Government will rejoin Horizon Europe, the EU's scientific research scheme and world’s largest research collaboration…

Wellcome responds to the 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action with a call to action at COP29.

Last year, we asked grantholders to report on their research outputs using Researchfish. One year on, what have we learnt from the data and how are we planning to use it?

Our interpretation of the world around us may have more in common with the impossible staircase illusion than it does the real world, according to research published today in…

The winning images from the 1999 Biomedical Image Awards.

Wellcome Global Monitor 2020 Summary of key findings