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Launching today: our new website!
Today we launched our new website. It has been designed to put our users’ needs first, be accessible to all, work well across all screen sizes and better serve our international audiences. As explained...
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Public Engagement Events Listing – May 2016
With two bank holidays this month, what better way to spend them than enjoying one of our fantastic Wellcome Trust supported events? Exhibitions Jacqueline Donachie: deep in the heart of your brain –...
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Gene therapy restores sight in people with inherited blindness
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found gene therapy can return some sight to people with inherited blindness for up to four years after treatment. Scientists used gene therapy to treat...
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Trial of experimental Ebola treatment publishes results
Results from a clinical trial of the experimental anti-Ebola drug TKM-130803 in Sierra Leone have shown that, at the dose given, the treatment did not improve survival in people with the disease. The...
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New funding to tackle urgent African health challenges
Research teams in Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda have been given a further £21 million through the DELTAS Africa initiative, which will support world class health research and help train the...
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The ethics of Zika trials in pregnancy
Exploring the ethics of involving pregnant women in clinical trials for diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for Zika virus is one of five new research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 04.04.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust research community. An apple a day Increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables we eat may significantly reduce the progression of cataracts, a...
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How do people feel about companies accessing health data?
The Wellcome Trust recently commissioned Ipsos MORI to look into what people think about commercial organisations having access to health data from patient records. Although a better system of access...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 07.03.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Deep roots Complete sequencing of Aboriginal Australian men’s Y chromosome reveals a long genetic history that stretches back 50,000...
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Image of the Week: Zika
The Zika virus appears to have emerged from nowhere, causing widespread health concerns throughout the world after decades of relative silence. Why has this occurred now, and what can we do to prevent...
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€1m Brain Prize awarded to three British neuroscientists
Three British neuroscientists have been awarded the world’s most valuable prize for brain research for their outstanding work on the mechanisms of memory. This year’s winners of the €1m Euro Brain...
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Public Engagement Events Listing – March 2016
Spring is on the way, so with the days getting lighter and longer, it’s time to get out and along to one of these excellent Wellcome Trust supported events (but there’s plenty to tune into from home...
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Zika: Q&A with the medical anthropologist
Sharon Abramowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida What do you do? As a medical anthropologist in West Africa, I teach, research...
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Zika: Q&A with the climate expert
Madeleine Thomson directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Malaria Early Warning Systems and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth...
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Zika: Q&A with the mapping expert
Simon Hay is Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, Research Fellow in the Sciences and...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 22.02.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Eye-catching research Genetic changes may increase the chances that children with the bacterial eye infection trachoma, will suffer...
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What we need to find out about Zika and pregnancy
Researchers across the world are urgently studying the virus to understand more about its effects on unborn babies Until a few months ago, Zika virus had done little to attract attention since it first...
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Image of the Week: Medicine and Healing in India
Our image of the week is taken from Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India just one of the exhibitions featuring as part of Wellcome Collection’s yearlong multi-city art project, Medicine Corner. The...
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Sharing data during Zika and other global health emergencies
We’re joining over 30 global health bodies in calling for all research data gathered during the Zika virus outbreak, and future public health emergencies, to be made available as rapidly and openly...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up: 08.01.16
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… Calling the shots A Hib booster is not necessary for toddlers to extend immunity into later childhood, according to new research...
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