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Merck-Backed Lab Gets $8.5 Million to Fast-Track a Vaccine for a Rapidly Spreading Ebola Outbreak

Hilleman Laboratories, a Singapore-based joint venture of Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK) MSD division and Wellcome, said Thursday it will develop and manufacture clinical trial doses of an investigational Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine with up to $8.5 million in funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

Benzinga

A Mouse Study Suggests Inherited Genes Help Decide Whether DNA Damage Becomes Cancer

In mice, four genetic backgrounds given identical DNA damage developed tumors that evolved differently, suggesting inherited genes shape cancer paths.

Medical Daily

This contrasting scene of a countryside picnic on an urban rooftop won a major photography award – and now it’s your chance

Photographer Mithail Afrige Chowdhury won £10,000 from the 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize for capturing human resilience among urban expansion – and now you can enter the 2027 awards

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Dame Bridget Ogilvie obituary

Parasitologist and director of the Wellcome Trust who oversaw the launch of the UK’s flagship genome sequencing centre

The Guardian - UK

Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection – new exhibition shows pregnancy has always been shaped by faith and fear

Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection at London’s Wellcome Collection is a small but quietly powerful exhibition. Spanning five centuries, it explores how the experience of bringing life into the world has been shaped as much by hope and uncertainty as by medicine. Medieval objects sit alongside contemporary artworks, revealing how…

The Conversation

Researchers found that some people who engaged with the puzzle game as part of PTSD treatment experienced a significant reduction in flashbacks

The Independent UK

Playing Tetris can help tackle memories of trauma, trial finds

A group was asked to play a slow version of the classic game while briefly recalling a traumatic memory.

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45 Pics From This Facial Expressions Experiment In The 19th Century Might Give You Nightmares

What do our faces look like when stimulated by electricity?

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Wellcome Photography Prize 2025: When photography meets science, health and the human experience

Now in its 28th year, the Wellcome Photography Prize honours photography at the intersection of science, health and the human experience. This year’s winners capture powerful stories exploring domestic abuse, climate migration and the hidden dangers of cholesterol.

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Cambridge University accused of bullying ‘cover-up’ as internal survey revealed

Only a quarter of staff are satisfied with how their department tackles bullying and harassment, FoI requests reveal

The Guardian - UK

Study uses digital avatars to help people who hear voices

Often in psychosis, as in other conditions, the voices people hear can be abusive or bullying and affect people’s day-to-day life.

The Independent UK

New schizophrenia drug ‘could change the lives of millions of people’

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Cobenfy, which is owned by pharmaceutical firm Bristol Myers Squibb.

The Independent UK

Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

World leaders will meet in New York this month to discuss growing antimicrobial resistance as researchers warn the development of replacement drugs is stalling

The Guardian - UK

From gnarled hands to murder: the show exposing the world’s worst workplaces

Hard Graft, an unsparing new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, showcases artworks that respond to employee exploitation, from the ruined hands of a washerwoman to the lung-damaged workers of Death Alley

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The Conversation

Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it is possible

Strange as it may seem, early germ theorists could tell us a lot about today’s attitudes toward climate change.

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Heart attack considerably raises risk of other health issues

A heart attack dramatically increases the risk of having other dangerous long-term health disorders. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Conversation

Artificial wombs could someday be a reality – here's how they may change our notions of parenthood

Our reproductive lives are considerably different from those of our ancestors, thanks in part to health innovations that have taken place over the past few decades. Practices such as IVF, donor eggs and sperm, womb transplants, surrogacy and egg freezing, mean that for many, there’s now more choice than ever…

The Guardian - UK

‘Gamechanging’ TB vaccine within reach after $500m pledge to run final trials

Joint deal between Gates Foundation and Wellcome to develop M72 jab could save 8.5 million lives and prevent 76 million cases

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New vaccine for killer illness is backed by UK charity amid fears of disease resurgence

Wellcome charity and Microsoft founder Bill Gates join forces to help co-fund final clinical trials of the most promising TB vaccine candidate in a century

The Guardian - UK

An exhibition about milk’s complicated history has me rethinking my morning cuppa

The Wellcome Collection’s show has art and history, biology and ecology, public health, politics – and the dangers of ice-cream

The Hindu

Program launched to train 1 million Indians in climate and health data work

A $2.3 million grant from U.K.-based charity Wellcome is funding a data skilling program run by data.org to launch the India Data Capacity Accelerator, which envisions one million Indians trained in using data

The Guardian - UK

‘There may still be surprises’: Jeremy Farrar warns of pandemic perils ahead

As the former Sage adviser leaves Wellcome to join WHO, he talks about exhausted health workers, the UK’s sluggish response to Covid and the danger of conspiracy theories

The Independent UK

Scientists to investigate whether CBD can treat psychosis

CBD is currently only prescribed on the NHS for a few conditions

The Guardian - UK

Oxford study to trial cannabis-based medicine as treatment for psychosis

CBD is currently only prescribed for a small number of conditions such as rare, severe epilepsy

Wales Online

Use of cannabis chemical as psychosis treatment being investigated

CBD is currently only prescribed by the NHS for a few conditions such as epilepsy

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