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Museum visits, science festivals and theatre performances could all contribute to learning about science, but the UK science education community - from schools and the…

A group of UK scientists are teaming up with researchers from two pharmaceutical companies to investigate whether mood disorders, such as depression, and neurodegenerative…

A new study funded by the Wellcome Trust will investigate how environmental changes over the next 20–30 years may impact the way we eat, in the UK and worldwide.

Celebrating 150 years of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London, Wellcome Collection opens its doors for a late night extravaganza…

Fischer Family Trust (FFT) has today released a new School Performance Governor Dashboard aimed at all schools in England, working in partnership with the National Governors…

The discovery of the molecular pathway that drives the changes seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease is reported today, revealing new targets for drug…

Land Body Ecologies research group are the new residents of the Hub at Wellcome Collection. Over the next two years, their project will explore the relationship between…

Children living with ADHD tend to feel they benefit from medication to treat the condition and do not think the medication turns them into ‘robots’, according to a report…

This is chapter 5 of the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018.

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…

A new technique which could revolutionise the treatment of epilepsy is to be tested thanks to a £10 million grant from the Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical…

Twenty one leading neuroscience groups from around the world have formed a ‘virtual brain lab’ to test how the brain controls learning and decision making. The £10 million…

Research published today provides the first direct genetic link to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Scientists at Cardiff University found that children with…

They are with us from the beginning and eat us when we die. Insects will always be a part of our lives, and a major new season at Wellcome Collection explores the complex and…

British writer and director Jonathan Glazer ('Under The Skin', 'Birth', 'Sexy Beast') has been named the 2014 Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellow in association with…

We're working hard to clarify what we hope the science review will achieve, how we’ll carry it out and who we’ll speak to.

Over nine in ten people worldwide (92%) feel mental health is as or more important than physical health for overall wellbeing, with almost half (46%) saying it is more…

Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust have found a direct link between the number of ‘Facebook friends’ a person has and the size of particular brain regions. In a study…

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…

Scientists have identified a genetic variant that increases susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) in African populations using a technique known as a genome-wide association (…