Dr Annette Rid discusses the key points of using unproven treatments during an epidemic, the ethical controversy and draws some...
vaccines
A team at Imperial has discovered a new class of human antibodies against the dengue virus, which could be used...
The last 2.6 million years have seen the breadth of human engineering and invention. From ancient humans using hammerstones to...
Malaria parasites have a cunning mechanism of hiding from the immune system of their human hosts: rapidly changing the proteins...
Ouch! Wouldn’t it be great if instead of a jab with a needle, you could just eat a vaccine instead?...
Bang Goes The Theory (BBC 2) set out to find the truth about all things sugar, and in its quest...
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree Aspirin is a salicylate derived from the bark of willow trees. It is an...
Stop-motion genetic modification! Credit to Pen Hill, Lucy van Dorp, Sam Cavenagh, Vanna Barber and Luis Mulet Planelles. More >...
A new type of vaccine for pneumonia based on genetically engineered bacteria has been developed, and may help in the...
Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
April is not really the correct time of year for the sun to have his hat on with such conviction....
