medical research

When so-called ‘superbugs’ become drug resistant, the infections they cause become even harder to treat.

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Scientists are exploring new strategies to win the war against superbugs.

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India is the ‘world capital’ of antimicrobial resistance and now part of a global fight to save millions of lives and trillions of dollars.

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Compiling and storing the DNA of newborns could be a massive boon for public health. But the ethical questions are just as big.

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Cost, availability and sample preservation are the main concerns but progress is rapid.

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Advances in the field are revolutionary but require safeguards to curb misuse.

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Collecting DNA data is not much help without the key to understanding what it all means. And that key is centralised health records.

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Unless people are brought into conversations about genetic discrimination dystopian scenarios may come to pass.

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