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The standard approach to re-treating tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income settings is failing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. In a study published…

A study published in the journal ‘Retrovirology’ has failed to find evidence of a link between chronic fatigue syndrome and a recently discovered virus.

Many newly qualified science teachers complete their initial training without sufficient subject knowledge to teach, according to research commissioned and published by the…

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

This paper examines why the ecosystem of infectious disease research and development (R&D) fails to meet people's needs and sets out potential routes for reform and key…

Presenting drug-resistant infections – or antimicrobial resistance – as an ‘apocalypse’ or a return to the ‘dark ages’ fails to create a sense of urgency on the issue and…

“If all systems fail you, and you have no supportive community to help you, where do you turn to?” Sebastian Mar photographed Russian women along with the mental health…

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,…

Our brains are better at hearing new and approaching sounds than detecting when a sound disappears, according to a study published today and part-funded by the Wellcome Trust…

Scientists have developed an easy-to-use computer program that can quickly analyse bacterial DNA from a patient’s infection and predict which antibiotics will work, and which…

Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and the USA to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published…

Museum visits, science festivals and theatre performances could all contribute to learning about science, but the UK science education community - from schools and the…

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.

Not preparing for infectious disease outbreaks costs far more than putting the systems in place to prevent them from spreading around the globe. The human and economic…

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…

Acquiring ‘the Knowledge’ - the complex layout of central London’s 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest - causes structural changes in the brain and changes to…

Discovering and then bringing new antibiotics to market is a tricky challenge – but one we need to solve if we want to be better protected against the growing threat of drug-…

In an open letter ahead of the G7 Summit, our Director Jeremy Farrar and Steven Waugh, Executive Director at the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) urge the UK…

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…

Millions of people live with obesity in the UK, but the wider health risks of obesity are poorly understood. Dr Louise Hunter, a clinician and endocrinologist at the…