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Wellcome Collection and City Stories Walks have been working together to bring you their first interactive, multimedia walking tour straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Babies born to mothers who suffer from a rare metabolic complication during pregnancy are programmed to be overweight, according to a study published today in the ‘Journal of…

Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and…

Beth Thompson, Executive Director for Policy & Partnerships at Wellcome, responds research published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showing eight healthy babies…

Researchers have identified four new genetic regions that influence birth weight, providing further evidence that genes as well as maternal nutrition are important for growth…

The remarkable achievement of eight healthy babies born following mitochondrial donation IVF shows how long-term support for science saves lives. Beth Thompson, Executive…

Wellcome’s outgoing Director reflects on a decade of progress and looks ahead at the opportunities to improve health globally.

A new IVF-based technique is likely to lead to normal pregnancies and reduce the risk that babies born will have mitochondrial disease.

Extreme heat will only get worse with climate change, and it has been linked to health risks for pregnant women and their babies. We spoke to a midwife and a researcher in…

New research uncovers two genetic regions that influence birth weight. One of the regions is also associated with type 2 diabetes, which helps to explain why small babies…

Researchers at King's College London have been awarded £10 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop…

Food homogeneity or the lack of diversity in the food we eat has a dangerous impact on climate change, food security and human health.

Surgeons will be able to use better tools, imaging techniques and therapies in future operations on unborn babies due to a £10 million award from the Wellcome Trust and the…

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘International Engagement Awards’. International Engagement Awards have been replaced by the Public…

The first healthy babies born in the UK thanks to mitochondrial donation show what science can achieve when combined with advocacy and engagement to build trust. Wellcome has…

The world’s largest health information management system has been awarded funding to integrate climate and health data to help predict health impacts of climate change. 

A clinical trial of a vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis has shown that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults…

A large clinical trial comparing treatments for typhoid has recommended the use of gatifloxacin, an affordable new-generation antibiotic. The results of the trial in…

Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in ‘Malaria…

Some of our funding is open to applicants based in low- or middle-income countries. Review a list of countries with low-income or middle-income economies, compiled by the…