Svante Pääbo receives 2022 award in physiology or medicine for genome discoveries including Neanderthals By Linda Geddes A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Svante Pääbo won the 10m Swedish kronor (£802,000) prize...
Exclusive: Condition most prevalent among those who had Covid, raising possibility of link with Parkinson’s disease By Linda Geddes Scientists have reported a two- to fourfold increase in the prevalence of dream-enactment disorder – whereby people physically act out...
UK health agency notes research that also suggests jabs can improve long Covid symptoms among unvaccinated By Linda Geddes Covid vaccination reduces the risk of developing long Covid, while current sufferers may experience an improvement in symptoms after getting...
Cancer-killing cells still present 10 years on, with results suggesting therapy is a cure for certain blood cancers By Linda Geddes Two of the first human patients to be treated with a revolutionary therapy that engineers immune cells to target specific types of...
Analysis: experts warn that viral evolution is not a one-way street and a continuing fall in virulence cannot be taken for granted By Linda Geddes The pandemic has been awash with slogans, but in recent weeks, two have been repeated with increasing frequency:...
Exclusive: Findings highlight importance of short-range Covid transmission By Linda Geddes Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, the world’s first...