Scientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Guérin aimed to discover how…
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According to the latest estimates, Covid-19 may be responsible for more than 18 million deaths worldwide. While infectious diseases like this have devastated humanity, it…
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Two scientists have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their contributions to RNA biology that contributed to the unprecedented rate…
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Feeling peckish one day in 2017, Darshna Yagnik, an immunologist and lecturer in biomedical science at Middlesex University, took a punt on something that had…
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The blanket use of antibiotics in farming has led to the emergence of bacteria that are more resistant to the human immune system, scientists have…
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The deaths of at least 74 people, including 19 children, from the invasive bacterial infection group A streptococcus, or strep A, are the most extreme…
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Covid-19 patients who have been hospitalised should also be routinely tested for flu, researchers have said. The call was made after the publication of a…
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Although several countries around the world continue to have high rates of Covid-19 infections, including the UK and US, many of their citizens are yet…
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Thousands of people living with HIV in Britain are to be freed from the burden of taking daily pills, after health chiefs gave the green…
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Daniel M Davis is a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester. He has published over 130 academic papers and two lauded popular science…
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