John Elder
‘Citizen science’: DIY vaccine’s developers are their own COVID guinea pigs
The world is desperate for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, and a group of ‘citizen scientists’ is taking matters into their...
Breakthrough Alzheimer’s blood test may be able to detect disease 20 years before onset
A new and inexpensive blood test for Alzheimer’s disease is almost 100 per cent accurate, outperforming magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and existing...
Cooked up in a lab, harmless COVID lookalike could be key to a vaccine
Researchers have created a toothless version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – it infects cells and interacts with antibodies in the same way...
How should new mums’ visitors be managed in the age of COVID? It’s complicated
The rules related to supporting women during childbirth and subsequent visitation in Australia’s current coronavirus epicentre were a matter of confusion this...
‘A future we need to be planning for urgently’: World’s population to boom, then shrink by 2100
World population will likely peak in 2064 around 9.7 billion, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100 – about two...
Playing with dolls predicts quality of fathering
Ever since it has become almost required that parents-to-be attend birth classes and destroy forests with the endless acquiring of books of...
Fasting diets: Study proves restricting eating to six-hour daily window really works
A new study from the University of Illinois appears to have found the manageable sweet spot in daily fasting diets – also...
Coronavirus concern: More than half of all COVID-19 patients found to have damaged hearts
An international survey of heart scans in people treated for COVID-19 found that 55 per cent of patients had an abnormality. One...
Bowel disease linked to huge increase in risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia
New research has found that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is linked to a six-fold risk of Alzheimer’s disease – and an overall...
‘Tiny bug slayer’: Meet Kongonaphon kely, the dinosaurs’ pint-sized great-grandfather
The mighty dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs appear to have evolved from a creature so small you could have held it in your...