Melinda Gates Foundation

Last month, between tweets disputing his election loss, US president Donald Trump posted an article from a conservative website that said his sister E(...)

The World Health Organisation has announced plans to make 120 million cheap Covid-19 antigen tests available to lower- and middle-income countries as (...)

The world’s population is likely to peak in 2064 at about 9.7 billion, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100 – two billion lower than some pre(...)

In a medical research project nearly unrivalled in its ambition and scope, volunteers worldwide are rolling up their sleeves to receive experimental v(...)

An Irish scientist is playing a lead role in one of the largest vaccine trials underway against Covid-19. An immunologist originally from Wexford, Pr(...)

World leaders launched a pledging “marathon” on Monday – without the United States – to raise at least $8 billion (€7.3 billion) for research into a p(...)

In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University. Most other teams have had to st(...)

An international coalition of hundreds of organisations, scientists and philanthropists has announced its intention to “ignite a global movement to he(...)

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has developed a five-point plan which outlines key activities where the research community can make a positive contri(...)

A vaccine for Covid-19 is soon to be injected into healthy volunteers in Seattle, US. The National Institutes of Health in the US will run these tests(...)