Apr 02, 2019 07:44 am UTC| Science
A biotech company from Israel is currently working on improving a lesser popular cancer treatment while many other scientists and researchers work on a potential cure for the disease. People might now have heard much about...
HIV/AIDS Cure: End to the Epidemic Imminent as Three Patients Become HIV-Free?
Apr 02, 2019 07:17 am UTC| Science
The past month has been a groundbreaking period in the hopes of ending the worldwide epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that later develops to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Scientists...
The science and politics of genetically engineered salmon: 5 questions answered
Apr 01, 2019 17:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
A Massachusetts-based company earlier this month cleared the last regulatory hurdle from the Food and Drug Administration to sell genetically engineered salmon in the U.S. Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam, who...
Scientists are developing new, exciting strategies for the fight against TB
Apr 01, 2019 17:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Tuberculosis (TB) is a lung disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its transmitted through air droplets when an infectious person coughs or sneezes. The disease can be treated, but its a long process...
What is the best sense? Scientists are still battling it out
Apr 01, 2019 17:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
If there is one thing Twitter has taught us, its that the world loves a question that sounds stupid, but actually has a profound and interesting answer. For instance, what would happen if the world suddenly turned into...
From the bronze age to food cans, here's how tin changed humanity
Apr 01, 2019 17:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements were taking a look at how researchers study some of the elements in their work. Todays its tin, a chemical that has little use by itself, but mix...
Discovered: the earliest known genetic condition in human evolution
Apr 01, 2019 17:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Genetic diseases are fairly common today, with more than one in 25 children being born with one. But the evolutionary history of such conditions is mysterious. Which genetic disorders were common in our ancestors and why?...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight