From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance on the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), Republican Donald Trump made plenty of promises during his presidential campaign that could affect scientists and science policy. But fulfilling all of his pledges won’t be easy. The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long? Trump, […]
The route of birth — c-section or vaginal — can have an effect on an infant’s microbiome.Credit: Jordi Mora Igual/Getty Feeding a baby born by caesarean section milk containing a tiny bit of their mother’s poo introduces beneficial microbes to their gut, according to a clinical trial. The approach might one day help to prevent […]
Blood tests could make detecting Alzheimer’s disease easier.Credit: Andrew Brookes/Getty In 2018, the people around Daryl Ditz started to see signs that something wasn’t quite right. “My work colleagues noticed I was kind of slipping with the computer stuff — messing up a little bit, putting files in the wrong place,” he says. “My wife […]
Once a week, early in the morning, community health worker Kiden Josephine Francis Laja mounts her bicycle and pedals as far as 10 miles away from her small village in South Sudan. Some weeks Laja is doing outreach, spending her day educating a community about which vaccines she can provide and what diseases they prevent. […]
Many of the patients who come to Eugene Yang’s cardiology clinic trace their origins back to India, China, Korea, and multiple parts of Southeast Asia. His clinic is in Seattle, a hub for the tech industry and home to thousands of immigrant workers. Yang had seen firsthand how people from each of these groups were […]
Reporting the results of all trials is essential to improve transparency, say researchers.Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty When Malcolm MacLeod made it his personal mission to update the results of every clinical trial ever registered at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he didn’t realize that the effort would take years. Eager to improve on what he refers […]
