It’s the most wonderful time of the year. In that time-honoured tradition, high-street food chains have just launched their festive menus. And, of course, The Mail on Sunday was first in the queue to try them – and put them under our nutritional microscope. There’s Pret’s snack pots of pigs in […]
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Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘They f*** you up, your mum and dad . . .’ might not have been written about health, but there’s little doubt now that if you have heart disease, you can certainly blame your mum. Your dad, it seems, can’t carry the can for this one! Most […]
Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about Covid-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February. But there’s one question she still can’t answer: What makes some patients so much sicker than others? Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of […]
It’s been a big puzzle of the pandemic: Why are children so much less likely than adults to become infected with the new coronavirus and, if infected, less likely to become ill? A possible reason may be that many children already have antibodies to other coronaviruses, according to researchers at […]
Two fetal cell atlases that track gene expression and chromatin accessibility are visualized here as the day and night sides of the globe. (Cognition Studio Inc. Illustration / Dani Bergey) Two new human cell atlases have mapped the molecular machinery that builds tissue in the weeks after conception — and […]
Forest geneticist Jennifer Koch hopes her ash breeding strategy could save other threatened trees. Maddie McGarvey By Gabriel PopkinNov. 12, 2020 , 10:32 AM DELAWARE, OHIO—On a weekday morning in August, just one pickup truck sat in the sprawling visitors’ parking lot here at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Forestry […]
A monkey that is new to science has been discovered in the remote forests of Myanmar. The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals. Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia. […]
Physicians Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci, who bonded over their love of medical research, are the married couple behind the Covid-19 vaccine that could change the world. Mr Sahin came from humble roots to build two billion-dollar companies but still rides to work on his mountain bike. Now the ‘modest’ […]