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New COVID variants could emerge from animals or from people with chronic infections – but it’s not cause for panic

9 Aug 2022

6 min read

Hippocrates lecturing to his students under the plane tree. Image credit: Wellcome Images

Funny medicine: Hippocrates and the four humours

4 Aug 2022

8 min read

Explainer Malaria

Wooden box containing tube of calf lymph, England, 1888. Credit: Science Museum, London. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why smallpox vaccines weren’t produced in Britain’s African colonies

13 Jul 2022

6 min read

Research summary Pandemic preparedness Explainer

Close up of general practitioner about to vaccinate a senior woman.

Could a variant-proof coronavirus vaccine be within reach?

8 Jul 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Research summary Explainer

Some scientists want to de-stigmatize the use of menstrual blood in research. Image: Decorative model uterus made from paper on pink background.

What Can Menstrual Blood Reveal about Health and Disease?

4 Jul 2022

9 min read

Cross-posts Research summary Explainer Gender equality

Viruses alter victims’ scent to attract mosquitoes

1 Jul 2022

3 min read

Research summary Explainer Educational

3D illustration decoding genome sequence

Genomic data sheds light on monkeypox origins

24 Jun 2022

4 min read

Mpox Explainer

COVID-19 virus SARS-COV-2 OMICRON strain, 3D rendering

How bad is the fresh wave of COVID-19 infections being driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants likely to be?

23 Jun 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Explainer Pandemic preparedness

The plague in Florence, 1348; illustrating Boccaccio's Decameron. Wellcome Images

Q&A: How the Black Death’s origins were cracked

23 Jun 2022

11 min read

Explainer Pandemic preparedness

Do optimists really live longer? Here’s what the research says

21 Jun 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Research summary Explainer

Deadly heatwaves: How high temperatures affect the body

17 Jun 2022

5 min read

Climate change Explainer

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Four ways you can design social media posts to combat health misinformation

16 Jun 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 Explainer

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