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Climate change: Longer, warmer summers could increase risk of mosquitoes carrying ‘fatal diseases’ in the UK, experts say | Science & Tech News
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Increasingly long and hot summers are raising the risk of disease-carrying mosquitoes becoming established in Britain, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned. The tiger mosquito, which transmits several fatal “tropical” diseases, has already spread to 13 countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) since first becoming established in Italy in 1990. Paris last…
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4,000 year-old plague DNA found in Britain may boost study of infectious diseases | UK News
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Plague DNA has been found dating back 4,000 years, making it the oldest evidence of the disease in Britain. The discovery by researchers could help to understand which genes are “important in the spread of infectious diseases”, one of them said. Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute (FCI) have identified three cases of Yersinia pestis…
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Breathalyser can sniff out diseases in real-time – and could attach to your phone | US News
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A new breathalyser sniffs out COVID in real-time and could be used to detect lung disease and cancer. At the moment the laser-based breathalyser is the size of a large table, but scientists hope to scale it down to be small enough to attach to a phone. Senior author of the study Jun Ye, a…
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Schoolgirl’s hi-tech backpack designed to tackle airborne diseases | Science & Tech News
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A schoolgirl’s design for a backpack that can filter air to protect people from pollution and airborne disease has won a national innovation contest. Eleanor Woods was presented with a real-world incarnation of her product in London over the weekend, having won over judges with a hi-tech satchel that “looks cool, will help get kids…
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100,000 newborn babies to have their DNA decoded in hunt for rare diseases | Science & Tech News
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Thousands of babies born with rare genetic diseases each year could get faster access to treatment after a £175m boost to “cutting edge genomic research” was announced. Genomics England will sequence the genomes of 100,000 newborns – which involves the study of people’s DNA – for rare conditions, after the government provided £105m in funding…
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How the Black Death shaped how our bodies tackle today’s diseases | Science & Tech News
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The Black Death had such an impact on the human immune system that it still shapes how our bodies tackle today’s diseases, a study has found. By analysing centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the devastating pandemic, which is estimated to have killed upwards of 200 million people between 1346 and 1353, scientists identified…
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Lab rats given human brain transplants could shed new light on diseases, say researchers | UK News
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A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue implanted into rats can integrate into its host’s brain, promising to give scientists an entirely new way to study brain disorders – but raising ethical questions too. Professor Sergiu Pasca and colleagues at Stanford University in California took sesame seed-sized clumps of human…