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What if you could take a simple test to reveal your individual risk of developing a range of cancers and hundreds of other diseases?
More than 1.5 million people die of tuberculosis across the world every year. Although testing and screening has improved and more drugs are available, it is not enough to conquer the scourge.
People living in close proximity to animals infected with Bovine TB are at a risk of contracting the disease through drinking their milk and eating their meat.
Awareness efforts can focus public attention and help scientists raise funds for research. But the impact on eradicating the disease itself and helping patients today is much less clear.
Tony Abbott is spending this week in North-East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
Scientists have revealed the structure of human-like proteins produced by viruses to fool our immune system. Researchers…
The first systematic international review of childhood vaccinations has found no evidence of a link between vaccinations…
Alternative treatments for a fungal infection that has been decimating amphibian populations worldwide have been identified…
Researchers in the UK have created an atlas of genetic associations with metabolic molecules, providing new insights into…
Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or the full extent to which they influence our health. Some provide essential nutrients…
Bacterial diseases cause millions of deaths every year. Most of these bacteria were benign at some point in their evolutionary past, and we don’t always understand what turned them into disease-causing…
Researchers have successfully reversed one of the effects of ageing in animals, and could be used to treat human diseases…
A new nanoparticle that can be taken orally has been developed, making injections of particles no longer necessary. Nanoparticles…
A South American frog named after Charles Darwin may be extinct from a deadly amphibian disease. Scientists at the Zoological…
HIV uses an “invisibility cloak” made up of a host body’s own cells, a team of researchers has found, in a discovery that represents a significant step forward in our understanding of the virus and could…
Ashwellthorpe Lower Wood in Norfolk, England has been managed by coppicing, an ancient form of forestry, for more than a thousand years. It was recorded as coppiced woodland in the Domesday Book published…
A recent MIT study claims that total combustion emissions in the US account for about 200,000 premature deaths per year. This enormous figure is not unique. In the UK, roughly 29,000 premature deaths are…
The world’s first pineapple DNA microarray may have important repercussions for the future development of other fruit and…
University of Sydney scientists have found a resistance to the fungal disease stem rust Ug99, which has been harming international…
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