Precision medicine holds immense potential to transform health care by tailoring prevention, diagnosis and treatment to each individual (see F. D. Urnov and S. H. Kassim Nature 652, 857–859; 2026). Advances in genomics, large-scale data integration and artificial intelligence have accelerated progress. Yet without deliberate attention to equity, the approach risks entrenching existing disparities rather…
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In a recent paper in Nature, Bernatz and colleagues report a measure of the health of the thymus — an organ in the chest that produces T cells. The researchers derived a ‘thymic health’ score from an analysis of computed tomography (CT) images, and showed that a low score was associated with mortality and several…
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A person who was aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has tested positive for a variant of hantavirus and is now in an intensive-care unit in South Africa.Credit: Elton Monteiro/EPA/Shutterstock Infectious-disease researchers are eager to learn more about a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The World Health Organization…
Since March, war in the Middle East has disrupted global fertilizer markets. Urea prices jumped by nearly 46% in a month, as geopolitical and energy shocks hit nitrogen supply chains1. The disruptions caused by blocked maritime bottlenecks, including the Strait of Hormuz, limiting tanker movements and flows of oil and liquefied natural gas, underscore the…
Sharif University of Technology after it was bombed on 7 April 2026.Credit: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Bombs dropped by the United States and Israel on Iran have damaged some 30 universities since war began on 28 February, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. In an open letter to United Nations officials and the governments…
For all that scientists talk of ‘decoding the genome’, the messy reality is that the genome isn’t even written in a single language. Scientists are fluent in the three-nucleotide codons that make up the protein-coding genes in DNA, but these represent only about 2% of the genomic text. The remainder is written in an entirely…
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Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01439-2 Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news. Source link