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The World Health Organization and its partners will test the public health effect of immunization in parts of Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya.

From skin color to immunity, human biology is linked to our archaic ancestry.

Research into the biological basis of gender identity is in its infancy, but clues are beginning to emerge.

People whose pupils change more dramatically during a visual perception task tend to score higher on a self-reported scale of autistic traits.

Regularly taking breaks from eating—for hours or days—can trigger changes both expected, such as in metabolic dynamics and inflammation, and surprising, as in immune system function and cancer progression.

These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

Health officials expect the virus to spread to nearly all countries in the Americas and expand warnings for pregnant women.

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    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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