Disease Update

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Inside the bank holding biodata of 500,000 Brits

Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

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Health & Disease

I tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies — what now?

As immunologists struggle to understand the immune response, psychologists want to know how infected people will think and behave after they recover

Illustration shows people standing in line to receive a dose of infectious microbes from a researcher wearing a white lab coat, gloves and a face mask.

Health & Disease

First, do harm

Studies that deliberately infect people with diseases are on the rise. They promise speedier vaccine development, but there’s a need to shore up informed consent.

A woman wearing a surgical mask and gloves shops for alcohol in a store.

Health & Disease

Solving the pandemic’s drinking problem

The Covid-19 lockdown has changed alcohol habits, but public health researchers face a blurred and incoherent picture of who’s been drinking, and how much

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Disease Update

Inside the bank holding biodata of 500,000 Brits

I tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies — what now?

First, do harm

Solving the pandemic’s drinking problem

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