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Covid-19 is here to stay. However, with careful management we can prevent future outbreaks and move from pandemic to endemic. But what does…

20.5 million children hadn’t received essential vaccinations in 2022, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.  While that marks…

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

A research agenda outlining priorities to inform the direction of future research on Long Covid.

A chromosome account of evolution and revolution The human X chromosome is about sex and how it evolved. It also has a unique position in the history of genetics – and the…

The Wellcome Photography Prize has unveiled its Top 25 entries, selected for the 2025 edition of the awards

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This paper outlines three areas – global coordination and leadership; financing and how to address key gaps in pandemic infrastructure – that will have the biggest impact on…

The Wellcome Photography Prize, now open for entries, seeks visual stories of human experience, hope, and resilience. 

New results from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), published in The Lancet, provide a picture of sexually transmitted infection (STI)…

Sujata Setia, Mithail Afrige Chowdhury and Steve Gschmeissner awarded £10,000 each for images exploring domestic abuse, climate migration and the hidden dangers of cholesterol

Four internationally renowned writers - including London’s first Young Poet Laureate, the current Forward Prize holder, and the former inaugural Poet in Residence at the…

The brains of males and females, and how they use them, may be far more different then previously thought, at least in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, according to…

The UK government’s finance minister has set out the country’s spending plans until 2030. What do they mean for research? Martin Smith, Head of Policy Lab at Wellcome,…

One in ten women (9.8%) and roughly one in seventy men (1.4%), when asked “Has anyone actually made you have sex with them, against your will?”, said yes, according to new…

Wellcome Collection is launching 'Sex by Numbers' - an interactive infographic that playfully maps the nation’s sex lives, from who with to how often - to mark the start of…

A new study, published in The Lancet as part of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), systematically assesses the association between…

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