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The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), an international public-private partnership that aims to determine three-dimensional structures of medically important proteins,…
Candy Hassall looks after a diverse portfolio of ongoing activities in science – grants, schemes, partnerships – that were established before the launch of Wellcome’s new…
Kelly Vere, Director of Technical Skills and Strategy at the University of Nottingham, explains how she's been working to build a better culture for technicians.
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Several members of the Wellcome community have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2017. The list, which was announced over the weekend, includes over 1,000…
Wellcome Open Research, Wellcome’s publishing platform, launches today. Its first articles are now published and freely available to view, and will shortly undergo open peer…
Three years on from an unprecedented epidemic in Central and South America, families affected by Zika are still benefiting from research studies supported since the outbreak…
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A survey of children in England and Wales and their parents published today reveals overwhelming support for science assessment in primary school, but a strong preference for…
Young people from around the UK will get a hands-on insight into how their bodies work during exercise, movement and rest when the Wellcome Trust’s In the Zone initiative…
The first two projects to be funded under the Wellcome Trust’s new Pathfinder Awards are announced today, tackling rare and orphan diseases for which there are currently no…
A clinical trial of an experimental antiviral treatment for Ebola, funded by the Wellcome Trust, has been stopped following a significant fall in new cases of infection with…
Researchers have developed a noninvasive way to stimulate regions deep within the brain using electrodes placed on the scalp, in experiments with mice.
The Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council (MRC) are to invest £24 million into obesity research led by the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.
A study published today in the journal ‘Science’ offers a long-awaited explanation for the link between HIV infection and susceptibility to life-threatening nontyphoidal…