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December 2, 20251 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmVideo: Highlights from a Sickle Cell Disease EventScientific American hosted an event at Morehouse School of Medicine…

Crystalline forms of cholesterol (blue) in a liver cell (purple), imaged using a scanning electron microscope.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryA CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing therapy has halved people’s…

A group of seven Labour MPs who served as ministers under Keir Starmer have written to the prime minister warning that an expected cut to UK…

There’s a global shortage of radiologists. Now artificial intelligence is helping speed up the diagnosis of tuberculosis in hard-to-reach communities.(Image credit: ARCAD Santé PLUS)

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the…

White blood cell (purple) engulfs tuberculosis bacteria.Credit: Science Photo LibraryImmunology is at a pivotal moment. The huge successes in public health brought about by vaccines are…

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows…

The MC4R gene promotes gain of fat tissue (pictured, artificially coloured fat cells) but suppresses cholesterol levels.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPLA gene that causes obesity is paradoxically linked…

She is animated now, in full lecture mode. Patients, she says, should have access to therapists and trainers as soon as they’re diagnosed with Parkinson’s, not…

October 8, 20253 min readAnnual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior ImmunityA new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced…