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The new London headquarters of the Wellcome Trust biomedical research charity was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen.

A gene previously linked to too much growth in patients has now also been linked to growth restriction. Different forms of the gene can lead to very different conditions,…

Funding to bring researchers together to improve understanding and treatments for depression and anxiety. 

In 2012, a skeleton was excavated by archaeologists from the University of Leicester at the presumed site of the Greyfriars friary in Leicester, the last-known resting place…

Seventeen of the brightest newly qualified postdoctoral researchers have been awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships. They will be working in research areas as…

The Wellcome Trust announces Our Planet, Our Health: a new initiative to investigate the connections between environment and health.

Read summaries of the grants awarded under the Our Planet, Our Health programme.

The British public are being invited to share their experiences of rest as part of a national ‘Rest Test’, which launched on 3 November at 9pm on BBC Radio 4’s All in the…

The results of the world’s largest ever survey on rest will be unveiled later today on BBC Radio 4. The survey reveals that over two thirds (68%) of the public would like…

Health research data must be made more widely available within the scientific community if we are to unlock the full potential of research and achieve significant advances in…

Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research, conducted by…

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…

Simon Cowell may appear to relish arguing with his fellow judges when they disagree with him, but new research out today suggests that - at least at a neuronal level - he…

It’s a common scenario: you’re on a diet, determined to give up eating cakes, but as you pass the cake counter, all resolve disappears. Now, scientists at the Wellcome Trust…

Computer analysis of brain scans could help predict how severe the future illness course of a patient with psychosis will be, according to research funded by the Medical…

As you read this, you may notice that when you look directly at a word it is clear, but all the surrounding words are hard to make out. For most people, this effect - known…

British writer and director Jonathan Glazer ('Under The Skin', 'Birth', 'Sexy Beast') has been named the 2014 Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellow in association with…

In the new age of coalition governments, the question of whether two heads are better than one is more relevant than ever. A study published today in the journal ‘Science’,…

Computer programs can be taught to differentiate between the brain scans of healthy adolescents and those most at risk of developing psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety…