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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…

The winning images from the 2011 Wellcome Image Awards.

Dr Philip Bejon has been appointed as new Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, one of the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes.

Six months on from the first case of COVID-19, the pandemic is accelerating and spreading into new areas. Jeremy Farrar talks about the lessons we learned and the long-term…

New research funded by the Wellcome Trust has shown that sending text message reminders to healthcare workers in rural Africa can improve the implementation of national…

During a global pandemic, it’s vital that governments endorse and implement scientific recommendations. We asked people around the world whether they felt their…

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

Dr Mike Dexter, Director of the Wellcome Trust said: "Sir John's achievements rank alongside our greatest biological and medical discoveries. His C. elegans work inspired a…

The Wellcome Image Awards 2011, celebrating the most striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months, were…

Statements issued by Wellcome in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.