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Disease – Analysis and Comment
A new gene editing experiment explores human development. With this comes new ethical questions: How do scientists acquire embryos and how are their projects approved?
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
The strategy to eliminate human rabies is straight forward: vaccinate dogs, provide prompt post-exposure vaccines, public education and awareness on prevention.
HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
When jetting off on holiday, we rarely give a second thought to what microbes we might be taking with us. But humans spread trillions of bacteria around the globe, potentially harming ecosystems’ balance.
Swine brucellosis is spreading from Queensland into New South Wales. It’s carried by feral pigs and poses a real risk the people and dogs that hunt them.
What’s on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
Biologists only really started to use maths in the last few decades.
Under pressure to create new markets, big alcohol producers are scouring the African continent in what promises to yield negative socioeconomic consequences.
What does dementia feel like?
In Russia, social networks have given a new life to the conspiracy theory that HIV-AIDS is a global hoax.
Rare diseases may only affect a handful of people but their treatment benefits everyone.
Genomes can reveal a lot about disease risk. But people need to think carefully about what they want to know.
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
Bacteria are single-celled organisms but you’d be fooled to think they weren’t also hugely complex.
We shouldn’t scoff at the Facebook founder’s goal of eradicating disease.
A comprehensive analysis of Tasmania’s natural disaster risks has identified bushfire as the biggest threat, alongside emerging issues such as disease epidemics and heatwaves.
It is an illness that runs in families – but there are other factors which go beyond inheritance.
Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in prehistory.
Some think labelling it a disease is a helpful way to think about addiction; others think this makes the addict helpless in their fight against addiction. Two academics debate both sides of the coin.
What could we do if a real-life zombie disease started to spread?
They may be single-celled organisms, but as our distant cousins amoeba can tell us a lot about ourselves.
As Australia joins a New York summit to discuss the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it still faces questions over whether it is meeting water standards at home.
Recognising the symptoms of the dispossessed will prevent crimes against humanity.