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Many government strategies depend on R&D spending, making it crucial that commitments in this area are met in the spending review, Wellcome said today in its submission…
Containment measures introduced in Vietnam to prevent the spread of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza did not succeed in halting the virus, but may have bought health services…
Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, reacts to the UK Government's 2021 Autumn Budget, in which it was announced that public investment in UK R&D will reach £20…
Join Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome, as she brings together three experts from the podcast series to reflect on the main themes that have emerged and ask what challenges…
A doctor and scientist of great compassion and intellect, Sir David Weatherall died on 8 December 2018. He was a member of Wellcome’s Board throughout the 1990s, helping to…
The Wellcome Trust today responds to ‘Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to expand access to research publications’, the report of the Working Group on Expanding…
Four European research funders have today added their support to the open access repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) by agreeing that the life sciences research outputs made…
After a two-day games hack in which scientists and games developers came together to create video games from doctoral research, a bacterial shoot-em-up game, ‘Dysbiosis’, has…
A group of research funders today outlined the steps they will take to reduce the risk of anonymised individual research subjects in the UK being re-identified from genomic,…
Who donates their brain to science? Where do these brains go and how are they used? At a free event at the Dana Centre in London tonight, an expert panel will debate the…
Transmission of tuberculosis between cattle and badgers has been tracked at a local scale for the first time, using a combination of bacterial whole-genome DNA sequencing and…
Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London)…
The National Science Learning Centre serves as the hub for a new £51 million national network of Centres dedicated to revitalising science teaching in schools.
The Wellcome Trust has been working with technology company Digital Science to introduce a new way of classifying the roles of individuals in work leading to published…