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Eunice Bowman, the oldest person in the UK dies aged 111
Click to view slideshow. Sadly, BBC News reports today that Eunice Bowman has died at the remarkable age of 111 and just one month shy of her 112th birthday, thus making her the oldest person to have...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Microneedles
On 23 February 1954, a group of children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were the first to receive Jonas Salk’s injected polio vaccine. Almost 59 years later, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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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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Image of the Week: Convincing Facts
How do you convince people that they should do something? Especially if it is something they don’t want to do, or they don’t believe in? Perhaps with capital letters, powerful statistics, and...
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Image of the Week: Ebola Vaccine
Our image this week is a visualisation of antibodies being activated by the Ebola vaccine. Ebola has featured heavily in the news this week, as the World Health Organization announced on Thursday that...
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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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World Immunisation Week: Seven vaccine challenges
The focus of WHO’s World Immunisation Week is closing the immunisation gap, which means getting vaccines that already exist to those who need them. But there are many diseases for which we do not have...
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