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As gene therapy technologies blossom, ddRNAi tries to take root
Before there was Twitter, there was Facebook, and before that, Friendster. And who can forget MySpace? There’s a similar trend of successive usurping technologies in the fast-moving quest to develop...
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The WHO and humanitarian crises: an interview with Michel Yao
Michel Yao (left) and Etienne Minkoulou (right) at the WHO office in Bangui, Central African Republic in March 2014.WHO/Christopher Black Armed conflicts and other humanitarian crises are notorious for...
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Ebola outbreak in West Africa lends urgency to recently-funded research
Electron micrograph of Ebola virusCDC/ Frederick Murphy Earlier this year, the Ebola virus popped up for the first time ever in West Africa. How it got there, some 2,000 miles from previous Ebola...
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Drug target suggested for MERS as case count rises
Cluster of vesicles made by virus from usurped and reshaped membranes.Volker Thiel, Edward Trybala and colleagues Since its appearance in Saudi Arabia in 2012, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome...
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Uncertain of the future, three ALS patients spearhead a new fund
It was only last summer, while on a kite surfing holiday, Garmt van Soest observed that his right hand was unusually weak. He also noticed that his speech was gradually becoming slower. “You wouldn’t...
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Real-time tissue analysis could guide brain tumor surgery
Santagata (second from left) and part of his team with the mass spectrometry platform for image-guided surgery in the Advanced Mutimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite at Brigham and Women’s...
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We’re seeking an assistant news editor
Nature Medicine (that’s us!) seeks an assistant news editor to report and edit must-read stories about the fast-changing field of drug development. We are looking for a person with a passion for...
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Ebola: a call to action
The following editorial appears in the September issue of Nature Medicine. The size, speed and potential reach of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa presents a wake-up call to the research...
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Course correction
The following editorial appears in the November issue of Nature Medicine. The international response to the ongoing Ebola epidemic has in many respects been more reactive than proactive. But there are...
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More than a Spoonful
Back in December 2006, readers got their first dose of the Spoonful of Medicine blog. Over the last eight years, there’s been a lot of news to dispense—from our look at the ongoing problem of drug...
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