A Dutch court ruled that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could face trial in the Netherlands, following a case filed by seven individuals claiming to have suffered injuries from COVID-19 vaccines. The case,
A groundbreaking study published in Neuron on June 5 reveals how the brain tells the difference between real and imagined images — a cognitive skill most of us take for granted but
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British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is under fire from human rights groups, political figures, and ethics experts for continuing to invest heavily in China despite the unexplained detention of one of its most
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Delegates at a United Nations meeting hosted by UNESCO in Paris have released the world’s first global recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy and user rights in brain-interface technologies. The guidelines emerge
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In the sugarcane fields of El Salvador, men like Oscar rise before dawn to swing machetes under an unforgiving sun. For decades, this brutal labour has quietly claimed lives, not with accidents
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. shareholders have overwhelmingly approved a compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley that includes a $60 million stock option award, signaling strong investor confidence in the longtime executive’s
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When Bruce Levine and colleagues began developing engineered immune cells to fight cancer in the 1990s, their work was largely dismissed. “The wider community was very sceptical,” Levine, an immunologist at the
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Southeast Asia is facing a rapidly escalating public health crisis, as heart disease has become the region’s leading cause of death following a staggering 148% rise in cases over the past three
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Private equity giants TPG and Blackstone have made a bold attempt to take US-listed medical technology company Hologic private, offering more than $16 billion in a deal that would rank among the
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A British woman awaiting a biopsy was left stunned after receiving a blunt and highly personal message reading, “Do you have cancer?” — a message apparently sent by Apple’s Siri without any
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A comprehensive new study published in the journal Cell has cast serious doubt on the theory that the Covid-19 virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Instead, the research, led by
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