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Wellcome is pledging up to US$100m (£70m/€80m) to accelerate Covid-19 research and development to ensure science keeps pace with the virus.

The largest ever study of height around the world has found that Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet.

The world needs a new vaccine to fight tuberculosis (TB). A new multimillion-pound global study funded by Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation could provide a…

Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announce funding to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate through a Phase III clinical trial.

Over the last 100 years, tuberculosis research has saved millions of lives but it has failed to curb the epidemic. While some recent scientific developments are promising,…

Science’s answer to the X Factor - ‘I’m a Scientist, Get Me out of Here’ - kicks off today, bigger and better than ever before, with 100 scientists and up to 8,000 students…

What does it mean to say eating red meat may increase your risk of cancer by 11 per cent? When is a ‘positive’ result in a medical test probably not a positive? And are there…

The Wellcome Trust is investing £27 million in a state-of-the-art genome-sequencing hub for Genomics England, the government’s project to decipher 100,000 complete genetic…

This Wellcome Collection exhibition brings together over 100 objects from literature, film, taxidermy and photography to examine what we think, feel and value about other…

Over 100,000 images, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements, are being made freely available through Wellcome Images. Drawn from the…

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…

This panel interviews candidates shortlisted for Wellcome Discovery Awards.

This panel interviews candidates shortlisted for Wellcome Career Development Awards.

This panel interviews candidates shortlisted for Wellcome Early-Career Awards.

Science is the shining light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, efforts to prepare for future epidemics and pandemics must focus on keeping pace with infectious diseases through…

Mindscapes is an international cultural programme that aims to support a transformation in how we understand, address and talk about mental health. 

Doctors and nurses are joining global demands for action on climate change – and because of their skills they have the potential for huge influence.

Over the past ten years, we’ve invested more than £120 million in longitudinal population studies in the UK and low- and middle-income countries.

The Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest charitable foundation and one of the world’s largest funders of medical research, today announces that it has successfully launched and…