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  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    When it comes to monkeypox, we must look to history

    Universal smallpox vaccination may not be necessary but complacency is not an option in viral outbreaks

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Coronavirus treatment
    Pfizer warns of ‘constant waves’ of Covid as complacency grows

    Chief executive Albert Bourla launches plan to offer patented medicines at lower cost to poorer nations

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Agritech
    Plant scientists welcome UK bill to deregulate crop engineering

    Campaigners warn against loosening of gene editing rules made possible by Brexit

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    World Health Organization
    Tedros re-elected as director-general of World Health Organization

    Former Ethiopian minister faces difficult task of rebuilding trust in global health body

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    EU officials discuss vaccines deal to tackle monkeypox outbreak

    European health experts react to biggest surge of disease outside west and central Africa

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
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    People with a history of autoimmune disease or depression were also more likely to have the condition

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
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  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
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    R&D partnerships involving universities and industry are being set up in Manchester, the West Midlands and Glasgow

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    Gene editing enables tomatoes to make ‘sunshine vitamin’

    Development could advance global efforts to tackle vitamin D deficiency affecting around 1bn people

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Pfizer to seek US emergency approval of Covid vaccine for under 5s

    Jabs for youngest children offer potential new market amid global glut of adult doses

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Disease control and prevention
    EU health agency advises member states to plan for monkeypox jabs

    Programmes would use smallpox vaccine and immunise close contacts of confirmed cases

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
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    Big Pharma lobbies for slice of G20 fund to prepare for next pandemic

    Industry says it will reserve production capacity for low- income nations for a fee if border bans are ended

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
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    North of England university spinouts secure £215mn in funding deal

    Northern Gritstone aims to boost development of northern research hub to rival ‘Silicon Fen’ with latest investment round

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Russell Foster
    Calculating the real cost of the graveyard shift

    Aligning work and healthcare with the body’s circadian cycles could bring revolutionary health benefits

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Chinese economy
    China cuts mortgage lending rate by record as lockdowns hit economy

    Five-year loan prime rate slashed by most since before pandemic as government steps up stimulus

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
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    Unvaccinated and unprepared, North Korea faces Covid catastrophe

    Pyongyang’s gamble on extreme isolation has unravelled as Omicron sweeps the country

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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    UK’s autumn Covid booster campaign could exclude most Britons

    JCVI’s provisional guidance limits top-up jabs to over-65s, frontline health workers and vulnerable younger people

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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    US records first monkeypox case since virus reported in Europe

    Infections investigated in 7 countries as scientists explore possibility of community transmission

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Robert Shrimsley
    A Brexit opportunity worth grasping

    The genetic technology bill is a moment to cheer new global benefits from the UK’s agricultural science research

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How can Covid-19 affect the human brain?

    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    News in-depthTechnology
    US rushes to catch up with China in supercomputer race

    World’s biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
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    Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line

    China’s strict policy puts citizens at mercy of unpredictable isolation orders as security camps outside

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Scientific research
    How one professor moved his research to a new country — and took his laboratory, too

    Packing up a workspace is a huge task but one Oxford scientist did just that — and his team have now joined him in the Netherlands

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Climate change
    Scientist alarmed by record carbon dioxide levels

    Primary driver of global warming is accelerating at ‘maximum speed’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Space exploration
    Astronomers release first image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way

    Collapsed star located 25,000 light years from Earth identified using Event Horizon Telescope

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