14 December 2022
As the world faced the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, Iceland began 2022 by shifting towards "herd immunity" while China ended the year easing its zero covid approach
14 December 2022
On 7 January, a man with severe heart failure received a genetically modified pig's heart. Although he died two months later, the procedure marked a step towards xenotransplantation
12 December 2022
A biodegradable sticky gel patch containing the pigment from turmeric can cover punctures in rodent lungs and deliver regenerative molecules to help heal wounds
11 December 2022
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer
7 December 2022
In a study of nearly 3.4 million people, almost 4000 genetic variants were linked to how much alcohol a person drinks a week, the age some start smoking and whether they quit the habit
