But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

The Wellcome Trust — the world’s second largest private funder of biomedical research — named Norwegian public health official John-Arne Røttingen its new CEO.

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

Experts are emphasising that safeguarding patient data from corporations and cyberattacks is vital for the NHS to create a ...

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and that means they can really change perceptions of different things in society,” says Elizabeth Wathuti, a young Kenyan climate activist and one of the judges of this ...

The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW)—one of the Wellcome Trust's major overseas programmes—is to receive around £14 million over 5 years in renewed funding, it is ...

The Wellcome Trust has evolved into one of the great foundations of the world. Founded 50 years ago by Sir Henry Wellcome, the American-born sole owner of the Burroughs-Wellcome drug empire, the Trust ...

Our Wellcome-funded doctoral training programme applies human-centred data research to health and care data, and will introduce you to a wider context for your research, enabling you to draw on ...