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A child receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Paris in December 2021

Myocarditis and covid-19 vaccines: How rare is it and who is at risk?

30 March 2022

With the mRNA covid-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of heart inflammation

AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or play Pong

30 March 2022

An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations

Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

29 March 2022

The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work – and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D

new houses with solar panels on roofs in Stirling, UK

Energy price cap means now might be the best time to green your home

29 March 2022

The cost of heating UK homes using traditional technology is rising this week – making green options like solar panels and heat pumps a more affordable alternative

Methyltransferase complexed with DNA, molecular model. The strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, green and blue) is enclosed by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT-1, green and pink). This enzyme acts to add methyl groups to the DNA, a process called DNA methylation, which can silence and regulate genes without changing the genetic sequence. DNA methylation is also being studied in relation to cancer.

Chronic pain in Black people in US may be linked to gene expression

28 March 2022

Stress-linked changes in the activity of genes may be why Black people in the US often have worse chronic pain than white people

US biofirm plans to make hypoallergenic cats using CRISPR gene editing

28 March 2022

A US company has deleted the genes for the allergy-causing protein in cat cells as a first step towards creating cats that don't trigger allergies

Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs

28 March 2022

A tiny snake-like animal that lived about 308 million years ago had evolved to lose its forelimbs

Light micrograph section through the skin of a patient with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) showing cleavage of part of the epidermis. EB is a rare genetic disease of the connective tissues in the skin and mucosal membranes. In this condition, no collagen forms between the skin layers (the dermis and epidermis). This allows them to move across each other at the slightest pressure, resulting in blisters and painful sores. Hematoxylin and eosin stain. Magnification: x550 when printed at 10 centimetres wide.

First ever gene therapy gel corrects rare genetic skin condition

28 March 2022

People with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a genetic condition that causes widespread skin blistering, have been successfully treated by inserting new collagen genes into their skin

Proposed EU law could force WhatsApp and iMessage to work together

25 March 2022

The European Union is close to agreeing the Digital Markets Act, which would require big tech firms to open up their services to wider competition

This picture taken on March 7, 2022 shows the current condition of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. - The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with

Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña

25 March 2022

Corals have turned white across all four of the reef’s main areas, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña climate phenomenon, in the natural wonder's sixth mass bleaching event of modern times