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The Bedfordshire town of Luton has come bottom of a league table of predicted city-wide air pollution concentrations among UK cities.

A new study suggests that the causes of rare diseases could be uncovered by using an approach created to identify genetic mutations that trigger a muscle-wasting condition.

Cancer Research UK and Vaccitech Oncology have announced a new partnership to bring a novel immunotherapeutic vaccine strategy to patients with lung cancer.

Chemists have discovered an efficient way to make long molecules from large rings, which form the backbone of many pharmaceuticals.

The British Pharmacological Society has announced the appointment of Rachel Lambert-Forsyth as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Researchers have developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.

Researchers have discovered that by suppressing a specific gene, it could prevent the buildup of abnormal tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Artificial intelligence is being developed that will allow "quarantining" of hate speech in a method similar to malware filters.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report today in the journal Neuron evidence that refutes the link between increased levels of herpes virus and Alzheimer's disease. In addition, the researchers provide a new statistical and computational framework for the analysis of large-scale sequencing data.

Researchers have uncovered nearly 209 genes whose activity can change in anxiety, which may provide new targets for drug development.