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The current cholera pandemic has lasted six decades and killed millions. Professor Jan Holmgren, who developed the world’s first effective oral cholera vaccine, tells us how…

We support the use of animals in the research we fund if researchers can show that it is legally, ethically and scientifically justified.

Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the…

What work is underway to prevent and treat cholera?

Scientific research into the phenomenon of false memories underpins the national touring exhibition 'False Memory Archive’, opening at The Exchange in Penzance on Saturday 28…

Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a Wellcome Trust project.

To ensure that research findings are shared widely and are made freely available at the time of publication, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have joined…

From India to Latin America, pioneering efforts are being made to reduce the rise and spread of AMR: antibiotic-resistant superbugs

The Wellcome Trust has now committed more than £10 million as part of an emergency package of research funding to tackle the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The news…

Zoonotic diseases represent a major global public health problem due to our close relationship with animals. But how do they spread and how can they be prevented?

Over nine in ten people worldwide (92%) feel mental health is as or more important than physical health for overall wellbeing, with almost half (46%) saying it is more…

Public trust in scientists rose during the pandemic, placing it on par with doctors and nurses. During the Covid-19 pandemic, more than three-quarters of people globally said…

This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Early-Career Awards.

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

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships’.

The winning images from the 2006 Biomedical Image Awards.

This is the foreword section of the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018.

Exposure to worm infections in the womb may protect a newborn infant from developing eczema, a study funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests. A large trial in Uganda showed…