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Researchers have identified a major genetic change that leads to malignant melanoma, a potentially lethal form of skin cancer that kills more than 1,600 people per year in…

Epic Games and Wellcome are inviting games developers based in Europe to participate in a new $500,000 year-long development competition Developing Beyond.

A distinctive genetic 'signature' found in the blood of children with tuberculosis (TB) offers new hope for improved diagnosis of the disease.

Human evolution, the Black Death and life on Mars are some of the themes chosen by the semi-finalists selected for Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development…

A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…

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

Wellcome to the genomic age The International Human Genome Consortium today announces the successful completion of the Human Genome Project more than two years ahead of…

Games exploring life on Mars, plant breeding and the legacy of the Black Death have made it to the final of Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development competition…

115 years of malaria data collected in Africa, described today in Nature, gives the most detailed picture yet of where efforts to control malaria infection are being won and…

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have revealed the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. The results are published today in the journal ‘…

Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, unlike the vaccines we already use for other diseases, have been developed using ribonucleic acid (RNA) technology. So…

How are Covid-19 vaccines tested to ensure they are safe and effective, and how do the clinical trials they are put through work?

In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat. Ed Yong reports.

Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate walks around New York's Central Park,…

Supporting science centres across the UK. It's a capital fund that helps centres rethink what they do and what they offer to the public. 

Young people from around the UK have begun work on a Sexology Songwriting project that will see them exploring the study of sex through music and lyrics.

A study published today in the journal ‘Science’ offers a long-awaited explanation for the link between HIV infection and susceptibility to life-threatening nontyphoidal…

The Wellcome Trust and the Roundhouse present Sounds of Sexology, the final showcase of a nationwide Sexology Songwriting project, on Tuesday 17 February 2015.

Material from the controversial archive of Francis Crick goes on display for the first time as part of a new exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of…

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and National…