Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs
14 September 2017
Exposure to smoke residue increases rodents’ stress hormones and puts them at higher risk of diabetes, as well as harming their livers and brains
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Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots
14 September 2017
Microscopic degradable polymer cubes stuffed with vaccines could spell the end of booster jabs, and lead to a single vaccine that protects against all diseases
Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs
14 September 2017
Giving antibiotics to people with cancer could improve treatment by stopping bacteria from degrading anticancer drugs
Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood
14 September 2017
Micromachine with two feet and two arms could pick up and deliver drugs in the bloodstream or build chemical compounds, one tiny step at a time
Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement
14 September 2017
Pulses of light that last billionths of a billionth of a second have helped unravel a mystery inside solid objects and could help us build better X-ray lasers
It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research
14 September 2017
The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report
AI spots Alzheimer’s brain changes years before symptoms emerge
14 September 2017
A machine-learning algorithm that examines MRI scans can identify alterations in how different regions of the brain are connected that indicate future disease
Wolves and bears to be slaughtered in Romania once again
14 September 2017
In 2016, Romania banned trophy hunting of wolves and bears, but now the government has angered conservationists by permitting hunters to target nuisance animals
