Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
An AI Tool to Make Clinical Trials More Inclusive
An artificial-intelligence tool called Trial Pathfinder can run clinical-trial emulations using healthcare data from people with cancer, and can learn how to optimize trial-inclusion eligibility criteria, while maintaining patient safety.
Nature, 2021
Six Months of COVID Vaccines: What 1.7 Billion Doses Have Taught Scientists
As countries race to administer coronavirus vaccines, researchers are analysing the effects while a rash of viral variants raises concern.
Nature, 2021
Stem Cells 2 Go
Japan has turned regenerative medicine into a regulatory free-for-all. Patients across the world could pay the price.
Nature, 2019
Stocking the Shelves for the Next Pandemic
Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?
Nature, 2021
The Future Costs of Methane Emissions
An analysis of the costs of climate change caused by adding one tonne of methane to the atmosphere finds that high-income regions of the world should spend much more on efforts to lower such emissions than should low-income regions.
Nature, 2021
First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in the United States
Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of opposition from residents and regulatory complications.
Nature, 2021
Deep-Sea Dilemma
Mining the ocean floor could solve mineral shortages – and lead to epic extinctions in some of the most remote ecosystems on Earth.
Nature, 2019
The Pain Gap
After decades of assuming that pain works the same way in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an ‘ouch!’.
Nature, 2019
Four Steps to Global Management of Space Traffic
Jamie Morin sets out the elements required to track satellites and avoid crashes.
Nature, 2019