Science & Health

Understanding the location and nature of the MUC1 sugars that prevent the immune system from detecting tumours provides the foundation for our laboratory and others in the field to develop cancer vaccines, biomarkers and therapeutics.

The current Ebola outbreak is the third-largest in world history, with 906 suspected cases and 223 deaths in the DRC alone as of 27 May.

A Nairobi lawyer started a free running club to get a few friends moving on Saturday mornings. Three years later, We Run Nairobi has become the city's largest free running community, with a global brand partnership and requests to expand across Kenya.

The world isn’t better prepared for pandemics a decade after Ebola exposed dangerous gaps. And six years after COVID-19 turned those gaps into a global catastrophe.

According to the WHO, as of 19 May 2026 the DRC had recorded more than 500 cases and 130 deaths, while its neighbour (Uganda) had recorded two cases and one death.

HIV remains one of the biggest public health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that accounts for approximately two-thirds of about 40 million people living with HIV globally.

Acoziborole will allow doctors to reach the most remote areas, where the last remaining pockets of the disease are. In 1998, nearly 40,000 cases were reported across Africa, and experts believe more than 300,000 others were never diagnosed.

A common virus that infects most people worldwide is now implicated in triggering Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus).