This July marked 80 years since representatives of 61 states signed the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) in New York City. The founders understood that diseases do not respect borders, and that progress depends on countries working towards a common goal. Africa’s response to this Ebola outbreak shows how to shape global health
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Shaira Berg (left) smiles during a take for her short film, Gaslight.Credit: Dik Ng Shaira Berg is building a career at the intersection of academic research and creative practice. During her PhD in psychology, which focused on behavioural neuroscience, at the University of Cambridge, UK, Berg collaborated with local video-game studio Ninja Theory. Together, they
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Bioengineering can produce tools for use in cutting-edge cell therapies, among other applications.Credit: Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Europe is losing ground in one of the most innovation-intensive sectors in biomedicine and health care: bioengineering1. Many advances in biomedicine are technologically driven, for example, the use of artificial intelligence to predict protein structures and rapid genome
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Bites from a lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), which live on white-tailed deer, are the main cause of α-gal allergy in the United States.Credit: BackyardProduction/Getty Thomas Platts-Mills develops a rash if he eats red meat. The immunologist is one of thousands of people who are diagnosed each year with tick-induced α-gal allergy — a life-threatening
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In late 2024, artificial intelligence reached PhD-level performance on scientific-reasoning benchmarks, and in 2025 it approached the measurement ceiling for one such test. In response, I developed an AI module and taught it to incoming biomedical PhD students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where I direct AI initiatives for the interdisciplinary graduate pathway. As
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Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, has expressed opposition to a proposal from the White House that would give political appointees control over research grants.Credit: Aaron Schwartz/Getty US senators from both sides of the political aisle released a draft spending bill on 2 August that, if passed, would temporarily halt a far-reaching and controversial
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