The Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine: How altering bases altered the future
Angelina Scherbakova reports on the 2023 Nobel Prize for Physiology, awarded to Kariko and Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccinations.
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High seas treaty marks new era in ocean conservation
Matthew Sutton reports on the 2023 implementation of the landmark high seas treaty by the United Nation after decades of negotiation.
There’s more to a fig than meets the eye: Shifting our perception of the trees we harvest
Amy White explores the challenges that hinder the lives of fig trees, and what this means for our perspectives on harvesting trees.
Breaking Newton’s third law—a new type of motion
Lily Massey reports on the discovery of “odd elasticity” in sperm cells, a phenomenon that violates Newton’s third fundamental law of physics.
Transplanting microbiota into rats is sufficient to induce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
Leah Fogarty reports on memory deficits observed in rats, similar to those found in Alzheimer’s disease, following microbiota modulation.
A fish out of water: How African Lungfish sleep through the heat
George Rabin takes a deep dive into aestivation, a process that allows lungfish to lay dormant during dry spells in the rivers they inhabit.
Medicine goes electronic—and geopolitical
Charles Jenner reports on the potential use of bioelectronic therapeutics in the treatment of heterogeneities in the autonomic nervous system.
Seeing double: A dive into the world of digital twins
Alice Banfield weighs up the potential uses of digital twins in personalised medicine and explores the ethical implications of this.
Are chemogenetics really a miracle tool?
Leah Fogarty explores the use of chemogenetics in the treatment of neurological conditions, such as epilepsy, ADHD, and Parkinson’s disease.
From stigmatisation to brain investigation: The evolving understanding of schizophrenia
Katerina Panti explores the paradigm shifts that have, and continue to, shape our understanding of schizophrenia.