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Announcement of pricing of £750 million Bonds by The Wellcome Trust
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…
Number of Facebook friends linked to size of brain regions, study suggests
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust have found a direct link between the number of ‘Facebook friends’ a person has and the size of particular brain regions. In a study…
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Winner of the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards announced
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.
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Francis Crick Digital Archive
A Pencil drawn sketch showing Francis Crick’s first impressions of the famous DNA double helix is amongst a unique collection of materials from his personal archive which…
Wellcome privacy statement
This Statement explains how, and on what legal basis, we collect, store, and use personal information about you as: a visitor to Wellcome Collection, our offices and our…
'False Memory Archive': the new London exhibitions
Based upon fascinating research that demonstrates how susceptible we are to false memories, A R Hopwood's 'False Memory Archive' at the Freud Museum London and Carroll /…
Vote by European Parliament on data protection welcomed by research community
The research community has welcomed a vote on the new European Data Protection Regulation, which includes proportionate safeguards on how personal data is used in health…
Erin Lefevre wins the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019
A tender photograph, providing personal insight into living with autism, has been selected as the overall winner for the Wellcome Photography Prize 2019.
£3bn a year needed to prepare the world for future pandemics
An investment of less than 50p per year for every person on the planet (£3bn/$4.5bn total) would make the world significantly more resilient to the threat of infectious…
Georgie Meadows: Stitched drawings
‘Georgie Meadows: Stitched drawings’ brings together 20 textile artworks that explore personal experiences of ageing and dementia. Meadows, a Monmouth-based artist and…
Wellcome issues £750m 50-year Bond at 1.5%
The Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest charitable foundation and one of the world’s largest funders of medical research, announces that it has successfully launched and priced…
Wellcome Collection explores Art in Global Health
A ground-breaking new project from Wellcome Collection, Art in Global Health, is bringing artists and scientists together in six Wellcome Trust-funded research programmes…
BAME people’s experience of British lockdown significantly worse, Wellcome survey finds
People from Black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) groups in Britain were far more likely than their White counterparts to be very concerned about the impact of coronavirus…
Gene discovery supports link between handedness and language-related disorders
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, at the University of Oxford, have identified a genetic variant which influences whether a person with dyslexia is…
Eh!woza - Things We Left Unseen
The Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 commissioned 17 young people from Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa empowering them to explore health and wellbeing in their…
1000 Genomes Project publishes most comprehensive map to date of human genetic variation
The 1000 Genomes Project, an international public-private consortium, published a map of genetic variations, estimated to contain approximately 95 per cent of the genetic…