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In the foreground is a round, translucent, petri dish with tiny blue dots of bacterial growth. It is being held by a scientist, out of focus in the background, wearing a pair of purple latex gloves and using a fine needle-like implement to manipulate the blue bacterial colonies.
AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests.The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery.Antibiotics kill bacteria, but infections that resist treatment are now causing more than a million deaths a year.Overusing antibiotics has helped bacteria evolve to dodge the drugs' effects, and there has been a shortage of new antibiotics for decades.Researchers have previously used AI to...
August 15, 2025

AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs

Guangdong authorities have vowed to take decisive and forceful measures to stop the spread of the disease
China reports 7,000 cases of chikungunya virus
SINGAPORE — More than 7,000 cases of a mosquito-borne virus have been reported across China's Guangdong province since July, prompting measures similar to those taken during the Covid-19 pandemic.In Foshan city, which has been hit the hardest, chikungunya patients must stay in hospital, where their beds will protected with mosquito nets. They can only be discharged after they test negative or at the end of a week-long stay.Spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, the virus causes fever and severe joint pain, which sometimes can last for years, but is not usually deadly.Here is what you need to know about the disease.Although rare in China, chikungunya virus outbreaks are common in South and South East Asia and parts of Africa.Most people bitten by an infected mosquito will...
August 07, 2025

China reports 7,000 cases of chikungunya virus

Baby born from three people's DNA in UK first
Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease
LONDON — Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say.The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman.The technique has been legal here for a decade but we now have the first proof it is leading to children born free of incurable mitochondrial disease.These conditions are normally passed from mother to child, starving the body of energy.This can cause severe disability and some babies die within days of being born. Couples know they are at risk if previous children, family members or the mother has been affected.Children born through the three-person technique inherit most of their DNA, their genetic blueprint, from...
July 17, 2025

Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease

An image from the UK Biobank project. It shows for MRI scans of the body showing the legs and major organs including the heart, spine and stomach in different colors.
Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th person
LONDON — Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers.The world's biggest human imaging project says it has now hit its target of scanning the brains, hearts and other organs of 100,000 people - the culmination of an ambitious 11-year study."Researchers are already starting to use the imaging data, along with other data we have, to identify disease early and then target treatment at an earlier stage," says Prof Naomi Allen, chief scientist at UK Biobank.The data is made available at low cost to teams around the world to find new ways of preventing common health conditions from heart disease to cancer.The 100,000th volunteer to be scanned was Steve, who recently retired from a job...
July 15, 2025

Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th person

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

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