In 2020, the world watched anxiously as scientists scrambled to develop defences against COVID-19. Faced with a new, deadly infectious disease, immunologists worked day and night to develop vaccines ...

Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. Seen from the air at dawn, a swarm of desert ...

1 College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shangjie University Town, Fuzhou, China 2 Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shangjie ...

Gain-of-function research (GOFR) refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a ...

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Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...

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