Scientists find mutant protein blocks HIV infection and transmission.

Many of us are infected with a virus we’ll never clear. While we’re healthy, it’s nothing to worry about, but when our immune system is suppressed it could kill us.

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio. Some argued that the viral infection could be provoked by medical interventions; others hotly contested this theory. Historian Dr Stephen Mawdsley looks at the unfolding story of polio provocation.

Scientists focusing on the ecology and evolution of avian flu.

A disease lethal to horses, until now confined to hot countries, could arrive in the UK. New research creates a picture of its possible spread and pinpoints the area that would be worse hit. 

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

Screening method created to expedite the development of new drugs in the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria and African sleeping sickness.

Although anti-HIV drugs can significantly prolong life, patients must take the drugs for the rest of their lives. New approaches to therapeutics may hold the answer to finding a cure for HIV.

Scientists who recently discovered a new strain of superbug have now tracked its transmission between animals and humans.

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.