Health & Medicine

Good news: the corona boosters work, British research shows

A wide range of corona vaccines also appear to be suitable as boosters. In the meantime, we know that the protection of the corona vaccine...

How Sars-CoV-2 damages the lungs

This immunofluorescence image of a Covid lung shows the accumulation of phagocytes (red) and connective tissue cells (green). (Image: University Hospital RWTH Aachen...

How Uncontrolled HIV Infection Could Make This Pandemic Much Worse

Researchers argue that it could lead to the emergence of new corona variants that are 'even more contagious than the delta variant'. We are currently...

Human ancestors with small canines

Comparison of the canines of a male and female chimpanzee (above) and the teeth of a male and female Ardipithecus. (Image: Gen Suwa) In...

‘New corona variant Omikron may increase the chance of reinfections’

It seems that people who have previously had COVID-19 are more likely to be reinfected with the new corona variant. Scientists around the world...

Conspiracy theories are rampant in this pandemic, but how come?

During this pandemic, not only the coronavirus is spreading at lightning speed. Conspiracy theories are also rampant. Wild stories about the origin of...

Our cells contain dozens of parts still unknown to us

And that may give us more insight into how human diseases arise. Most human diseases can be traced back to defective parts of a cell....

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