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Disease outbreaks are likely to become more common in the future because of the growing human population, climate change and land-use change, says Prof. Marion Koopmans. Image credit - rawpixel/licenced under CCO

Health | 02 April 2020

Q&A: We have to rethink disease detection to get ahead of the outbreak after coronavirus

Metagenomics can help us spot emerging diseases, says virologist Marion Koopmans.

According to Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding, an approved mRNA coronavirus vaccine would be easier and faster to produce and thus deploy worldwide than a conventional vaccine. Image credit - Unsplash/Liliya Lisa

Interview | 01 April 2020

Five things you need to know about: mRNA vaccines

What are they and why are they promising for coronavirus?

The current standard propellant for satellites based on hydrazine, which is highly toxic, so researchers are developing safer alternatives. Image credit - NASA-JPL/Caltech

Space | 30 March 2020

Making satellites safer: the search for new propellants

Moving away from hydrazine would require disrupting existing systems.

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Interview | 02 March 2020

Q&A: ‘We need to improve how we keep track of objects in space’

The more satellite launches we do, the bigger the risk of damage or debris, says Dimitra Stefoudi.

Interview | 28 February 2020

Q&A: ‘We can diagnose more than 4,000 rare diseases but there’s still a long way to go’

Genetic tests can help end patients’ ‘diagnostic odyssey’, says Dr Lucia Monaco.

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Online tools such as NextStrain are helping to track the spread of coronavirus in real time. Image credit - nextstrain.org

Covid-19: How unprecedented data sharing has led to faster-than-ever outbreak research

According to Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding, an approved mRNA coronavirus vaccine would be easier and faster to produce and thus deploy worldwide than a conventional vaccine. Image credit - Unsplash/Liliya Lisa

Five things you need to know about: mRNA vaccines

Ground stones were a 'major evolutionary success' as they allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flour. Image credit - José-Manuel Benito Álvarez/Wikimedia commons, licenced under CC BY-SA 2.5

How Stone Age humans unlocked the glucose in plants

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