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Gene-replacement therapies are transforming children鈥檚 lives

Several therapies to correct severe genetic disorders have been approved by medical regulators in 2022, and others have produced impressive clinical trial results

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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against mpox in LA, California, in August 2022

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Targeted vaccine campaigns helped the West get on top of monkeypox

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MRI scan of a brain

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Sneaking drugs into the brain could treat conditions like Alzheimer’s

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People waiting outside a clinic in Beijing

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How is China ending its zero-covid policy affecting cases and deaths?

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Artemis-deficient SCID

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Gene therapy restored immune system in children with rare disorder

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Aedes aegypti mosquito

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Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in Vietnam and Cambodia

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X-rays from different angles showing cochlear implants in a rat

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Stimulating the brainstem may make cochlear implants more effective

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Bee on a rape flower

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Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 people a year

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Parasitic DNA makes us age faster – but we’re not sure why

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A child sitting in a hospital bed

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Why are children catching so many illnesses this winter?

Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like influenza and RSV. While this is partly because child infections fell during covid-19 restrictions, that isn鈥檛 the whole story

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Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks survive cold winters

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn鈥檛 there a vaccine?

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Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of 2.6 million people

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

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