Preliminary results reported on 15 January in JAMA suggest hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may be more effective than traditional therapies for treating the most common form of multiple sclerosis
The gut is home to billions of bacteria, known as the microbiome, however, little is known about how this microbiome changes over time. An international team of researchers, led by
Satellite imagery has revealed a six-fold increase in the rate at which ice sheets are melting in Antarctica over the last 40 years, according to a study published on 14
According to a survey just released on the terre-net website, “1,043 farmers answered the question: ‘Do you use intra-parcel modulation on your farm?’ While 71.43% of respondents do not use
The findings of an interesting study published on 14 January in Nature Human Behaviour suggest that many extreme opponents to genetically modified (GM) foods may actually know the least (1). Based
This week in an interesting commentary published on 9 January in Nature, three international researchers― Prof Yong Geng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, Prof Joseph Sarkis from the
Energy sources are needed to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal for clean water and sanitation (SDG6), in order to facilitate energy-intensive water treatment processes. At the same
A new paper published on 8 January in Nature Communications describes a ‘precision-guided sterile insect technique’ that can effectively alter insect genes to control female viability and male fertility. The
A new study published on 8 January in Advanced Materials has presented a novel biomaterial with the unique ability to enable cell-selective activation of growth factors ― signalling proteins that
Most estimates of ocean warming only go back as far as the 1950s, owing to limited data. A new study published on 7 January in PLoS One presents a reconstruction of historical