A multi-million-pound emergency fund for research aimed at containing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and future outbreaks of infectious disease has been announced by the Wellcome Trust.

The Wellcome Trust has awarded $8 million to PureTech’s Karuna to take its schizophrenia drug into mid-stage trials. Karuna, which is an affiliate of PureTech Health, was granted the funding ...

The Wellcome Trust now has an asset base of more than £12 billion ($19 billion) and an annual expenditure of some £400 million, supporting more than 3,000 researchers, at 300 locations in 30 ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests.

Scientists have successfully reprogrammed astroglia, a type of brain support cell, into neurons that mimic specific ...

Trained therapists then lead a series of guided role-play sessions which allowed patients to have conversations with their avatar and "push back" against the abuse. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the ...

Alder Hey, a key University of Liverpool partner, has been awarded £1.1m from the National Institute for Health and Care ...

The funding will make the hospital's new MRI truly state-of-the-art by adding new imaging methods, allowing users to see more ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

“People have forgotten what life is all about,” Robert De Niro’s character says in the film Awakenings after being revived ...

This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship (220047/Z/19/Z), Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship (219525/Z/19/Z), Wellcome Collaborator award (214314/Z/18/Z), The Wellcome ...