Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
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.
Chunhua Weng and James R. Rogers
Nature, 2021
As countries race to administer coronavirus vaccines, researchers are analysing the effects while a rash of viral variants raises concern.
Heidi Ledford
Nature, 2021
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Japan has turned regenerative medicine into a regulatory free-for-all. Patients across the world could pay the price.
David Cyranoski and Brendan Maher
Nature, 2019
Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?
Elie Dolgin
Nature, 2021
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.
James K. Hammitt
Nature, 2021
Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of opposition from residents and regulatory complications.
Emily Waltz
Nature, 2021
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Mining the ocean floor could solve mineral shortages – and lead to epic extinctions in some of the most remote ecosystems on Earth.
Olive Heffernan
Nature, 2019
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After decades of assuming that pain works the same way in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an ‘ouch!’.
Amber Dance
Nature, 2019
Jamie Morin sets out the elements required to track satellites and avoid crashes.
Jamie Morin
Nature, 2019
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Humans are masters of dexterity. But robots are catching up.
Richard Hodson
Nature, 2018
