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Explore Stories

Our research redefines the way we understand disease and develop medicines. Discover the people and stories that make it possible.

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It can take years of sleuthing to produce breakthrough medicines. Read more about our approach to research.

Blood smear from patient with African Sleeping sickness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Killing three diseases with one stone in the lab

Boats in Thailand

Experimental treatment clears malaria infections in small clinical study

Mrs. Cao waves to the camera after exiting the flying hospital post-operation

New Orbis Flying Eye Hospital helps fight blindness in China

Education & Awareness

Digital health: providing opportunities for advocacy groups and a community for patients

Bodypainter Natalie Fletcher paints on model

Education & Awareness

Body painter captures anguish of those who suffer from psoriasis

NIBR researcher Jennifer Allport-Anderson looks into a microscope

A cellular drama at the heart of a researcher’s family

Patient in rural Kenya walks to a clinic

Kenya confronts chronic diseases, building on progress against AIDS

Scar tissue (light brown) has invaded this lobule of a liver affected by cirrhosis. SEM image by Motta & Fujita/Science Photo Library

Tackling the common denominator in liver disease

Lung cancer cells by Ann Weston, LRI, CRUK, Wellcome Images

Cancer researchers ready to aim for cures

Facts about eyes

Education & Awareness

The eye: the fastest muscle in the human body