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Are we on the way to solving the donor organ shortage?
What's happening? University of Maryland Medical Center doctors have, for the first time, transplanted a heart from a genetically modified ...
Nicola Watts
January 14, 2022
What’s the deal with drug waste?
What’s happening? University of Bath researchers have created a more sustainable method to develop pharmaceuticals. Currently, synthesising small-molecule drugs involves ...
Nicola Watts
November 26, 2021
What’s the use of drug repurposing?
What's happening? Drugs commonly used to treat hypertension and inflammation may also be beneficial for Alzheimer's, a paper in Genome Medicine ...
Nicola Watts
November 5, 2021
The climate emergency is a health emergency
What's happening? The impact of climate change risks millions of unnecessary deaths, according to the sixth Lancet Countdown report. The authors, who include ...
Nicola Watts
October 29, 2021
Can brain stimulation deliver benefits?
What's happening? University of California, San Francisco scientists have successfully used on-demand deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat severe depression ...
Nicola Watts
October 22, 2021
Why is a malaria vaccine so important?
What's happening? The World Health Organization's (WHO) advisory bodies for immunisation and malaria have recommended a global roll out of ...
Nicola Watts
October 15, 2021
Why is health being ignored in ESG investing?
What’s happening? ShareAction has developed a framework to help investors measure the impact of their portfolios on health. The framework ...
Mubaasil Hassan
October 15, 2021
England is relaxing the rules for gene-edited crops
What’s happening? The UK government plans to ease rules for gene-edited (GE) crops in England. GE allows scientists to remove ...
Anja Pries
October 8, 2021
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