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Crowdsourcing malaria diagnosis with games
The malaria biogame developed by UCLA. Disclaimer: This project is not funded or affiliated with the Wellcome Trust. Can you turn gamers into armchair pathologists? At the recent AAAS conference in...
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Cambridge Science Festival 2013
Next week sees the start of the annual Cambridge Science Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific activity at the University of Cambridge. We’ve put together a quick...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: The Sardinian Project (1949)
Our film of the month for March is The Sardinian project (1949), which is about how malaria was eradicated from the island just after the Second World War. The history of malaria runs in parallel with...
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John Snow: medical detective
John Snow, 1856. As the world celebrates the bicentenary of John Snow’s birth, Jimmy Whitworth reminds us how an inquisitive Victorian came to profoundly change public health. During March and April of...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 2: Kenya
A photograph by Miriam and James, exploring the juxtaposition of science and nature. Over the course of four months, Barry J Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film...
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SNOWS on World Water Day
A woman collecting water from a river in the Masai village of Rosalin, Hai District of Tanzania. Water and sanitation are two of the most fundamental factors in health yet we still don’t know how best...
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Paradoxic pandemic: The inexorable spread of hand, foot and mouth disease
As researchers describe a new way to make vaccines to fight diseases like foot and mouth disease in animals and polio in humans, we look at a related human viral infection called hand, foot and mouth...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 3: Malawi
Scientists in Malawi working with ‘locals’ around 30km from the nearest hospital Over the course of four months, Barry J Gibb visited the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia...
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Where to spend for malaria? Global Health Trials look for the answers
The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941. Malaria remains one of the world’s biggest disease burdens, but where...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 4: Vietnam
Rush hour in Vietnam, a bipedal frenzy of noise and colour. Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Cat’s got the measles and the measles have got YOU!
“Cat’s got the Measles and the Measles have got YOU! This playground rhyme features in our film of the month,Protect your child against measles 1980, a Health Education Authority film aimed at...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 5: Thailand
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art and Global Health project. In the latest of his diary...
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The end of a seven-year itch
Hookworm teethCredit: AJ Cann, flickr It started about seven years ago. I thought it was just a fleeting fascination but the seeds had been sown for a lifelong affair – I was hooked. I would tell...
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The digital future of infectious disease maps
The spatial distribution of Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity in 2010. You are stuck in bed with a snotty nose and flu. You grab your smart phone and use 140 characters to declare to...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Penicillium
Our image of the week depicts the mould Penicillium, which produces the antibiotic penicillin. Moulds are a type of fungus, and reproduce using the spores that you can see in the picture. The...
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Wellcome Image of the Week: Mosquito net veil
This week we marked World Mosquito Day with a blog post about some of the work that Wellcome Trust is funding in the area of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. Mosquito nets are another popular...
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Act today, tomorrow is too late: A rallying call to malaria research
Marta Tufet is an International Activities Adviser for the Wellcome Trust. She recently attended the Multilateral Initiative for Malaria meeting in Durban and shares some of the stark messages that...
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The revenge of the Americas
Katherine Wright won in the professional scientist category of this year’s Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Her winning entry was published in the Observer on Sunday and has attracted hundreds of...
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First Wellcome Trust open access book looks at history of fungal disease
Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust extended its open access policy to include monographs and scholarly publications, and today our first open access monograph is published, a history of fungal...
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Life-saving radio
Two men recording a pre-recorded spot for the radio show. Can mass media save lives? Marta Tufet on the first randomized control trial of this in Burkina Faso. A farmer in Burkina Faso turns on the...
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