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Over 100,000 images, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements, are being made freely available through Wellcome Images. Drawn from the…

The top 25 entries celebrate the intersection of health, science, and human experience through compelling visual storytelling. The 2025 competition saw professional and…

We want to help science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. That's why we support thousands of curious, passionate researchers all over the world.

Thousands of lives around the world could be saved every year if we can develop new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections. The problem we need to fix is how to make…

In South Africa, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) kills thousands of people every year. These Wellcome-funded research teams are working with local communities to better…

Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.

Representatives of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Library have signed a memorandum of…

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…

Interventions targeting malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, antimalarial drugs and mosquito control, could substantially reduce cases of bacteraemia, which kill…

The first malaria vaccine has been given to more than 1.7 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi so far – and it could save tens of thousands of lives when it is rolled…

On the tenth anniversary of the completion of the first draft of the human genome - a draft that took ten years to complete - the Wellcome Trust has launched a project to…

Current practices prioritise outputs over people’s wellbeing. We want to help build a better research culture – one that is creative, inclusive and honest. 

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Researchers hope a newly launched experiment on music hooks could help future research into Alzheimer’s disease.

This summer, Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London are collaborating to unearth the stories behind bones from burial grounds across the UK.

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly have today committed to tackling the rise in drug resistant infections.

A million Rohingya refugees in crowded shelters with poor sanitation – ideal conditions for infections to spread. Here’s how to stop these deadly outbreaks.

Miracles & Charms, Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme, opens today, exploring the extraordinary in the everyday with a pair of shows. Drawing lines between…

Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to develop a computer model of the brain after developing a technique to map the connections and functions of nerve cells in…

The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease,…