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Magnetic Slime Robot Could Retrieve Objects From Inside The Body
Global Health
How to improve access to cancer medicines in low and middle-income countries
Poor healthcare systems are a major barrier to patients accessing life-saving cancer medicines. Public-private partnerships could ensure better access.
Precision Medicine
4 agile ways policy-makers can advance precision medicine
Precision medicine has been limited by technological, ethical, and regulatory challenges, but agile governance could harness it for the public good.
Precision Medicine
First Woman Cured Of HIV After Stem-Cell Transplant
Health and Healthcare
Biden's Cancer Moonshot and how innovation and collaboration can close the cancer care gap
Biden has relaunched the Cancer Moonshot project – pledging to cut cancer deaths in half by 2047. Technology, along with widening access to care, will be key.
Japan
COVID-19: This is how your gut bacteria could protect you
The low COVID-19 death rate in Japan could be a result of gut microbes, new research reveals - and the discovery could pave the way for a new treatment.
Health and Healthcare
US man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant
A man in the US, suffering from heart disease became the first person ever to receive a transplant from a genetically modified pig heart this year.
COVID-19
7 steps to ensure your COVID-19 rapid antigen test is as accurate as possible
Rapid antigen tests are now more accessible than ever in supermarkets and pharmacies, so it is important that everyone knows how to use them correctly.
Biotechnology
How can technological advancements in synthetic biology benefit everyone? An expert explains
An ideal bioeconomy policy agenda needs to be established so that everyone can benefit from the latest advancements made in synthetic biology, expert says.
Precision Medicine
Precision medicine needs financing to fight diseases like cancer - especially in poorer countries
Precision medicine needs financing to fight diseases like cancer. Non-communicable diseases such as cancer and heart disease are an increasing problem in poor countries, but development f...
Precision Medicine
How we can make gene therapies available to all
Gene therapies can cure incurable diseases, such as sickle cell disease, but treatment costs and lack of in-country manufacturing are slowing progress.
Precision Medicine
How engineering animals and plants could help fight climate change
There is potential for genetic engineering to bolster the response to climate change, but there are also risks and unknowns.
Precision Medicine
Gene therapies could change millions of lives - so how will we pay for them?
Gene therapies can cost million of dollars. Kevin Doxzen explains why creative new payment systems are needed to help fund treatment.
COVID-19
What are COVID-19 vaccine booster shots and why are they being offered?
The World Health Organization has called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, to enable low-income countries to get more people vaccinated.
Mental Health
These Yale researchers are helping develop more effective treatments for severe mental health
Researchers at Yale have developed ways to effectively map variations in individual symptoms to mental illnesses, such as major depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety.