By Stephen Hibbs, HARP Doctoral Research Fellow and Haematology Registrar, Queen Mary University of London
Christina Barriteau, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation), Pathology, Northwestern University
Kari Lancaster, Professor in Social Studies of Science and Health, in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences,, University of Bath
Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to needless biopsies and lower chemo doses.
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By Ezgi Unsal, Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Can a country so key to the global oil and gas trade help broker a deal that accelerates the end of fossil fuels?
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By Michael Kendall, Professor of Geophysics, University of Oxford
Caitlin McElroy, Departmental Research Lecturer, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
Jon Blundy, Royal Society Research Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
You’re probably reading this article on a phone or laptop containing more than 30 different metals. Some will be common: aluminium casing, copper wires. But other metals are less familiar and much more scarce. Each iPhone contains less than a gram of lithium, for instance, but would not function without it.
We are in the midst of a geopolitically charged race for lithium and other so-called critical minerals. These materials are crucial for renewable energy, transport, data centres, aerospace and…
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By Matthew Sparks, PhD Candidate in Entomology, Swansea University
Wendy Harris, Associate Professor in Biosciences
Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ work.
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By Christel Nielsen, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Lund University
Can tattoos protect your skin from the sun’s harmful rays, or do they make things worse? A new study I conducted with colleagues suggests there may be cause for concern. We found that people with tattoos had a 29% higher risk of developing melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer often linked to ultraviolet (UV) exposure.
However, tattoos did not appear to increase the risk of squamous cell carcinoma, another type of skin cancer related to UV damage. Although both cancers share a common cause, they arise…
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed – even detachable. They’re one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it’s an anatomical outlier. Understanding why penises evolved, and why they differ so widely, also helps explain why humans have one at all.
Penises first evolved as a solution to one simple problem: how to achieve internal fertilisation.
The first animals lived in the sea before our ancestors started living…
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By Punita Chowbey, Senior research fellow, Sheffield Hallam University
Kaveri Qureshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Economic abuse may not be as obvious as physical abuse, but for the millions of people it affects in the UK, economic abuse can be totally devastating.
Economic abuse, which is recognised as a form of domestic abuse in law, involves controlling a person’s (often a woman’s) ability to acquire, use and maintain economic…
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By David C. Gaze, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology, University of Westminster
New studies reveal that orange juice appears to influence thousands of genes in immune cells and improve markers linked to heart disease.
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By Vikram Niranjan, Assistant Professor in Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Limerick
As a public health dentist and researcher, for years I saw the same pattern. Patients with deep root infections often had wider health problems, particularly those with diabetes. I did not yet understand why. Now, scientific studies are beginning to explain the link: treating a deep tooth infection may also help the body manage blood sugar.
A tooth infection might seem like a relatively minor health issue, but its effects can reach far beyond the mouth. Recent…
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By Sabine Lee, Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
Heather Tasker, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dalhousie University
Susan Bartels, Clinician-Scientist, Queen's University, Ontario
Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
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