Gene sequencing tools allows scientists to untangle the genetic roots of many diseases and they’re looking at genetic variation in Africa.
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/ 29 September 2014
In an effort to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak, scientists and authorities are aiming to roll out vaccines, raising questions of ethics.
A new map has shown that more regions in Africa are at risk of animal-related Ebola infections than previously feared.
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/ 17 October 2013
The World Health Organisation has classified air pollution as carcinogenic to humans.
The world’s first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled.
Genetic sequence data on a strain of bird flu has shown the virus has acquired mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic.
Europe is experiencing its first sustained transmission of dengue fever since the 1920s, with more than 1 300 people infected in Madeira, Portugal.
A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly Sars infection is critically ill in hospital in Britain.
Science shows music has a profound effect on an athlete before and during a major sports event.
Most of Africa’s languages don’t have a word for cancer. How can a continent hope to treat, let alone fight, a disease that has no name?