Why water quality tests don’t always accurately capture health risks

A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water than benign counterparts, a new study has found. Read more »

Why was there a sudden drop in the incidence of leprosy at the end of the Middle Ages?

Scientists have reconstructed the genome of medieval strains of the pathogen responsible for leprosy by exhuming centuries-old human graves to investigate why the incidence of leprosy decreased after the Middle Ages. Read more »

The body electric: researchers move closer to low-cost, implantable electronics

New technology is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the body. Read more »

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