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Climate mitigation has the potential to protect and improve people’s health, as well as reduce emissions. We look at five solutions from around the world and across different…

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Translation Fund’.

Visitors to Glasgow’s West End should take extra care this weekend: a giant purple monster is expected to be working its way through the crowds.

Today, at a meeting at the Royal Society with the HRH Prince of Wales, representatives from over 20 countries will consider the immediate actions different nations can take…

Single-cell genomics could provide new insight into the biology of malaria parasites (including their virulence and levels of drug resistance) to ultimately improve treatment…

Project summaries of Wellcome grants awarded under the scheme ‘Pathfinder Awards’.

Restricting the use of antibiotics is unlikely to stop the spread of drug resistance in typhoid fever, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in the…

To accompany a major exhibition opening in February 2016, Wellcome Collection will publish 'States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness'. The book is a…

El Niño conditions are returning. Global temperatures are expected to rise, leading to extreme climate and weather events with health consequences around the world. Find out…

The Wellcome Trust and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) are launching a new partnership alongside the Beltane Public Engagement Network to deliver an exciting…

Patients suffering sudden liver failure could in the future benefit from a new treatment that could reduce the need for transplants, research published today shows.

The Wellcome Image Awards 2015 are coming closer than ever before, with exhibitions to be held all across the UK and beyond.

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

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…

“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” - Anton Chekhov*

Wellcome has commissioned leading photojournalist Adrienne Surprenant to create a new photography series focusing on the mosquito-borne tropical disease dengue.

A rapid evidence assessment on the impact of antimicrobial resistance.

Six months on from the first case of COVID-19, the pandemic is accelerating and spreading into new areas. Jeremy Farrar talks about the lessons we learned and the long-term…

Wellcome Collection opens late on Friday 8 April for Elements, a spectacular night of chemical romance, intrigue and performance. We’ll be filling the whole building with…

Deenan Pillay, Professor of Virology at UCL (University College London), is today named as the new Director of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, one of the…