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Wellcome joins a new collaboration of private and philanthropic partners, the AMR fund, in the search for new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections.

The panel is chaired by science writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry. Judges include Joanna Bourke, Professor of History and prize-winning author of nine books; Roger…

The winning images from the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards.

The European Research Council (ERC) announced today that it will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and…

A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…

Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the…

The winning images from the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards.

Following the success of its recent exhibitions, which have looked at mental health and at identity, Wellcome Collection returns to the subject of the human body for its…

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships’.

A new report published today identifies options through which funders can help ensure that the rapidly growing open access market delivers high-quality services and value for…

The longlist for the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize was announced yesterday, bringing together a varied range of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness…

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize today announces its second ever shortlist for works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine. One will win the £25…

New research reveals how our brains are able to pick out important sounds from the noisy world around us. The findings, published online today in the journal ‘eLife’, could…

The third Wellcome Trust Book Prize has been awarded to Alice LaPlante for her debut novel ‘Turn of Mind’, a tale of a family’s secrets exposed by murder and a brilliant mind…

As the climate crisis intensifies, it shrinks and contaminates the water we rely on. We need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to our…

Hundreds of common genetic variants across the human genome influence adult height, according to a study of over 180,000 individuals published today in the journal ‘Nature’.…

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL have found that by using a mobile app, it is possible to gather, on a large scale, the type of information…

Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the frontline treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and…

Working as a piano tuner may lead to changes in the structure of the memory and navigation areas of the brain, suggests new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. In a study…