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A rikshaw driver on the streets of Varanasi during a hot afternoon.

How to survive a heatwave

2 May 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

A child and its mother being tested for malaria in Mozambique. Scientists are researching the safety and efficacy of mRNA-based malaria vaccines. Copyright: Courtesy of Malaria Consortium.

Hunting the ‘perfect protein’ for malaria mRNA vaccine

25 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Dr. Adenov, Kazakhstan's director of the National TB Program, with a patient. Researchers are pushing to capitalise on the success of mRNA technology against COVID-19 and are aiming to develop an mRNA vaccine to be used against TB. Copyright: USAID Central Asia, (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Can mRNA vaccine tech take on tuberculosis?

14 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Vaccine development

Pediatrician administering HPV vaccine to a girl.

WHO says just one dose of HPV vaccine protects against cervical cancer

12 Apr 2022

4 min read

HPV Gender equality

We are now spending more years in poor health than at any time in our history. Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

We’re spending more years in poor health than at any point in history. How can we change this?

6 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

Researchers hypothesise that the black fungus epidemic in India was caused by burning cow dung. Copyright: Image by Randhir Kumar from Pixabay.

Cow dung fires linked to black fungus epidemic in India

6 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

Over half of the human genome contains repetitive DNA sequences whose functions are still not fully understood. Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images

The Human Genome Project pieced together only 92% of the DNA – now scientists have finally filled in the remaining 8%

4 Apr 2022

7 min read

Cross-posts Explainer Innovation

New bednets have potential to save “millions of lives”

1 Apr 2022

4 min read

Malaria Pandemic preparedness

A scientist working in the design and development lab of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in 2011. Clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine against HIV have started Copyright: AIDSVaccine, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Cautious optimism for trials of mRNA-based HIV vaccine

31 Mar 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts HIV Vaccine development

A new study reports that a four-month-long childhood tuberculosis treatment works just as well as a six-month course. Copyright: J P Davidson (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Childhood TB course can be cut to four months

24 Mar 2022

4 min read

Tuberculosis

A baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital.

Maternal vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus cuts antibiotic usage in infants

23 Mar 2022

4 min read

RSV

How virtual reality could help reduce vaccine hesitancy

22 Mar 2022

3 min read

Research summary COVID-19 Innovation

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