Lead researcher for the project Dr Chris Chiu, from Imperial College London, said: “My team has been safely running human challenge studies with other respiratory viruses for over 10 years. No study is completely risk free, but the Human Challenge Programme partners will be working hard to ensure we make the risks as low as… Read More: UK plan to be first to run human challenge Covid… »
A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm ‘swim’. More than three hundred years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used one of the earliest microscopes to describe human sperm as having a “tail, which, when swimming, lashes with a snakelike movement, like eels in… Read More: How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption »
It generally does not affect humans, but those with respiratory disease or immune compromise might be infected. To help ease their symptoms, treat your pet the can dogs get human flu way you’d treat yourself. If your dog spends time in a doggy day care or will need to be boarded in the near future,… Read More: Can dogs get human flu »
This is the first time a skull belonging to Australopithecus anamensis has been found and the discovery sheds light on the evolutionary history of early human ancestors. Researchers have been working on the Woranso-Mille Paleoanthropological Research Project study in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia for 15 years. On February 16, 2016, the upper jaw… Read More: Revealing the new face of a 3.8-million-year-old early human ancestor »