Influenza is the pathogen most likely to trigger a new pandemic in the near future, according to leading scientists. An international survey, to be published…
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Everything you wish you never needed to know about sewage fungus
What is sewage fungus? It is slimy, murky brown, smells bad, and fills river enthusiasts and anglers with gloom. But it is probably useful to…
View More Everything you wish you never needed to know about sewage fungusViruses living in human gut could help regulate stress, study suggests
Viruses are widely regarded as harmful to our health, but a subset of viruses living in the gut could play a crucial role in regulating…
View More Viruses living in human gut could help regulate stress, study suggestsSecrets of the microbiome: the vagina – podcast
The trillions of microbes living on and inside the human body are an important part of who we are, from mediating all our interactions with…
View More Secrets of the microbiome: the vagina – podcastLong Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating – study
Many people with long Covid feel tired, unwell and in pain for lengthy periods after exercise, and researchers say they now know why. Experts say…
View More Long Covid causes changes in body that make exercise debilitating – studyUK detects its first human case of swine flu strain
Health officials are scrambling to trace contacts of a person infected with a new form of swine flu, after the UK detected its first human…
View More UK detects its first human case of swine flu strainScientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize
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…
View More Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prizeApple cider vinegar: the ultimate panacea – or wildly overhyped?
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…
View More Apple cider vinegar: the ultimate panacea – or wildly overhyped?Oldest evidence of plague in Britain found in 4,000-year-old human remains
The oldest evidence for the plague in Britain has been discovered in 4,000-year-old human remains unearthed at bronze age burial sites in Cumbria and Somerset.…
View More Oldest evidence of plague in Britain found in 4,000-year-old human remainsCovid-resistant bats could be key to fighting the next pandemic
Widely depicted as evil spirits or blood-sucking demons, bats have had a poor press over the years. No vampire film, from Dracula to Buffy, has…
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