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These machines used to read human DNA may soon be used to write sections of it
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch
LONDON — Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.The research has been taboo until now because of concerns it could lead to designer babies or unforeseen changes for future generations.But now the world's largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, has given an initial £10m to start the project and says it has the potential to do more good than harm by accelerating treatments for many incurable diseases.Dr Julian Sale, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, who is part of the project, told BBC News the research was the next giant leap in biology."The sky is the limit. We are looking at therapies that will improve people's lives as they age, that will lead...
June 26, 2025

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

A young baby wrapped in a blue blanket receives a vaccination in Senegal in 2024
Millions of children at risk as vaccine uptake stalls
LONDON — Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades — and even gone backwards in some countries — a new global study suggests.The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio.The researchers are calling for a concerted effort to provide better and more equal access to vaccines.Child health experts warn that cuts to international aid budgets that fund vaccination programs, combined with vaccine scepticism, are creating a "perfect storm".The global childhood vaccination program has been a huge success.Since 1974, more than four billion children have been vaccinated, preventing an estimated 150 million...
June 25, 2025

Millions of children at risk as vaccine uptake stalls

Health experts warn that measles spreads very easily and can lead to some children suffering life-long consequences
Measles holiday warning as cases rise in Europe
LONDON — Families traveling abroad this summer on holiday or to visit relatives are being warned about the rise in measles cases in Europe and other regions.Measles infections in Europe are at a 25-year high, while cases are also surging in countries such as Pakistan and Nigeria.Childhood vaccination rates in the UK that offer protection against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are still a long way below the recommended 95% uptake, with the lowest regional rates found in London at just over 73% vaccinated.The UK Health Security Agency is warning holidaymakers to make sure they are up to date with their vaccinations and stress that it is never too late to get vaccinated.The UKHSA's latest data on measles infections shows that an outbreak is continuing in England.Some 109 cases were...
June 06, 2025

Measles holiday warning as cases rise in Europe

Gram negative bacteria spread rapidly in places like hospital ICUs
Deadly superbugs thrive as access to antibiotics falters in India
DELHI — It's a grim paradox, doctors say.On the one hand, antibiotics are being overused until they no longer work, driving resistance and fuelling the rise of deadly superbugs. On the other hand, people are dying because they can't access these life-saving drugs.A new study by the non-profit Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) looked at access to antibiotics for nearly 1.5 million cases of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) infections across eight major low- and middle-income countries, including India, Brazil and South Africa. CRGN bacteria are superbugs resistant to last-line antibiotics — yet only 6.9% of patients received appropriate treatment in the countries studied.India bore the lion's share of CRGN infections and treatment...
June 02, 2025

Deadly superbugs thrive as access to antibiotics falters in India

Affected families in Serrinha dos Pintos lived without a diagnosis until geneticist Silvana Santos arrived
The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'
SERRINHA DOS PINTOS, Brazil — Before Silvana Santos arrived in the little town of Serrinha dos Pintos more than 20 years ago, residents had no idea why so many local children had lost the ability to walk.The remote town in north-eastern Brazil is home to fewer than 5,000 people, and is where biologist and geneticist Santos identified and named a previously unknown condition: Spoan syndrome.Caused by a genetic mutation, the syndrome affects the nervous system, gradually weakening the body. It only appears when the altered gene is inherited from both parents.Santos's research marked the first time the disease had been described anywhere in the world. For this and later work, she was named one of the BBC's 100 most influential women in 2024.Before Santos arrived, families had no...
May 12, 2025

The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'

Grace holds baby Amy with her husband Angus at her bedside. They are surrounded by smiling medics at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospit
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
LONDON — A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant.Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace's sister, who donated her womb.Holding baby Amy — who weighed just over two kilos (four and a half pounds) — for the first time was "incredible" and "surreal", new mum Grace says."It was quite overwhelming because we'd never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her...
April 08, 2025

First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart has a single moving part – a levitated rotor that’s held in place by magnets
Man lives for 100 days with titanium heart in successful new trial
BRISBANE — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified, received the implant during surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney last November.In February, he became the first person worldwide to leave hospital with the device, which kept him alive until a heart donor became available earlier this month.According to a statement issued Wednesday by St Vincent’s Hospital, Monash University and BiVACOR, the US-Australian company behind the device, the man, who had severe heart failure, was “recovering well.”The ability of the device to sustain him for so long is being celebrated as a sign the artificial...
March 12, 2025

Man lives for 100 days with titanium heart in successful new trial

James Harrison with his grandson, Trey, in an earlier picture
Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
SYDNEY — One of the world's most prolific blood donors — whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies — has died.James Harrison died in his sleep at a nursing home in New South Wales, Australia on 17 February, his family said on Monday. He was 88.Known in Australia as the man with the golden arm, Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody, Anti-D, which is used to make medication given to pregnant mothers whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn babies.The Australian Red Cross Blood Service who paid tribute to Harrison, said he had pledged to become a donor after receiving transfusions while undergoing a major chest surgery when he was 14.He started donating his blood plasma when he was 18 and continued doing so every two weeks until he was 81.In 2005,...
March 03, 2025

Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies

Dr Aly's study found benefits from the drugs on many aspects of people's health
Weight-loss drugs may boost health in many ways
WASHINGTON — The first study to assess how weight-loss drugs affect the whole of human health has discovered an "eye-opening" impact on the body, researchers say.The analysis, involving about two million people, linked the drugs to better heart health, fewer infections, a lower risk of drug abuse and fewer cases of dementia.The US researchers also warned the drugs were "not without risk" and seemed to increase joint pain and potentially deadly inflammation in the pancreas.However, the results need very careful interpretation.Weight-loss drugs have exploded in popularity - but a full understanding of everything they touch in the body is still coming together."This is new territory," said lead researcher Dr Ziyad al-Aly, clinical epidemiologist at Washington...
January 21, 2025

Weight-loss drugs may boost health in many ways

Drug-resistant infections are most prevalent in critical care units
India's 'blockbuster' drugs to take on deadly superbugs
MUMBAI — Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviors.But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause.These antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" directly caused 1.14 million deaths worldwide in 2021, according to The Lancet, a medical journal. Antibiotics – which are considered to be the first line of defense against severe infections – did not work on most of these cases.India is among the countries hardest hit by "antimicrobial resistance". In 2019 alone, antibiotic-resistant infections caused around 300,000 deaths. They alone are responsible for the deaths of nearly 60,000 newborns each year.But some hope is on the horizon. A number of promising...
December 05, 2024

India's 'blockbuster' drugs to take on deadly superbugs

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