In a new commentary published on 13 March in Nature, an international team of scientists calls for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing (1). In
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Are policy initiatives improving air pollution in Europe’s two megacities? A new study, slated for publication in the June 2019 edition of Environmental Pollution, suggests that while nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
If greenhouse gases continue to rise at current rates, at least 50 per cent of the global population will be exposed to two particularly dangerous disease-spreading mosquitoes — Aedes aegypti
A second person may have been cured of HIV, ten years after the first patient, Timothy Ray Brown, known as the “Berlin patient”, received a similar stem cell transplant and
Last Wednesday 20 February, a committee advising the Congolese Ministry of Health made the decision to provide the Ebola vaccine to pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as babies under
A new study published on 13 February in Nature has demonstrated that persistent disruption to sleep increases white blood cell production causing damage to blood vessels (1). The researchers showed
A new study published on 13 February in Nature suggests human cells could be reprogrammed to replace the insulin-producing cells destroyed by diabetes, offering a potential new treatment for the
A new study has refuted the old folk wisdom “Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer.” Results of the randomised controlled trial published
Researchers may have discovered a drug that can reduce the ‘thirst’ of ravenous mosquitoes for several days. Findings of the new study were published on 7 February in the journal
A large study of two European populations ― Belgian and Dutch people ― has discovered that several species of gut bacteria are missing in people with depression (1). The results