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Coronapod: Lessons from pandemic ‘war-game’ simulations

Biosecurity experts use military-style exercises to plan for biological threats. Have their warnings been heeded?

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
Benjamin Thompson
News03 Jul 2020
Nature
Coronapod: Massive coronavirus outbreak strikes iconic Californian prison after it rejected expert aid

San Quentin prison faces the third-largest outbreak in the United States. Legal pressure builds as one in three inmates is infected.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
Benjamin Thompson
News10 Jul 2020
Nature
Coronapod: Fixing the world’s pandemic alarm

A year ago the WHO’s coronavirus emergency alarm was largely ignored. Why?

Benjamin Thompson
Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News29 Jan 2021
Nature
Coronapod: Waiving vaccine patents and coronavirus genome data disputes

A unexpected US call shocks public-health researchers and drugmakers, and why some researchers oppose unrestricted data sharing.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News07 May 2021
Nature
Coronapod: One whistle-blower’s quest to take politics out of coronavirus surveillance

We discuss how to keep tabs on a pandemic despite political meddling.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News09 Apr 2021
Nature
Coronapod: The state of the pandemic, six months in

Lockdowns are lifting but global infections are still rising. We take stock as we enter the next chapter of the outbreak.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
Benjamin Thompson
News26 Jun 2020
Nature
Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions

A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread.

Benjamin Thompson
Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News26 Feb 2021
Nature
Coronapod: COVID's origins and the 'lab leak' theory

Where did the coronavirus come from?

Benjamin Thompson
Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News05 Mar 2021
Nature
Coronapod: The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research

The latest from the hydroxychloroquine saga, as a questionable dataset threatens trust in science and forces major journals to review their processes

Noah Baker
Richard Van Noorden
Amy Maxmen
News12 Jun 2020
Nature
Coronapod: Uncertainty and the COVID 'lab-leak' theory

How doubt is fuelling the debate over the origin of coronavirus.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News04 Jun 2021
Nature
Coronapod: Variants – what you need to know

Researchers are scrambling to understand the biology of new coronavirus variants and the impact they might have on vaccine efficacy.

Benjamin Thompson
Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News05 Feb 2021
Nature
Coronapod: the inequality at the heart of the pandemic

A journey through COVID’s unequal toll in California.

Amy Maxmen
Noah Baker
News30 Apr 2021
Nature
Public health: Death at the doorstep

Even a cure is not preventing deaths from malaria in Uganda. Poor education and limited access to healthcare are among the reasons why.

Amy Maxmen
Comments & Opinion25 Apr 2012
Nature

Volume: 484, P: S19-S21
Meet the Ebola workers battling a virus in a war zone

Nature's Amy Maxmen reports from the front line of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Amy Maxmen
News21 Jun 2019
Nature

Volume: 570, P: 426-427
Ebola in a war zone

On the ground with Ebola responders in the conflict-ridden Democratic Republic of the Congo

Amy Maxmen
Dan Fox
Noah Baker
News12 Sept 2019
Nature
The next chapter for African genomics

Nigeria is poised to become a hub for genetics research, but a few stubborn challenges block the way.

Amy Maxmen
News19 Feb 2020
Nature

Volume: 578, P: 350-354
How African scientists are improving cassava to help feed the world

Researchers in Nigeria are combining genomics and conventional breeding to improve the starchy staple crop.

Amy Maxmen
News08 Jan 2019
Nature

Volume: 565, P: 144-146
Resurrected malaria strategy saves thousands of lives in Africa

Pre-emptively treating kids for malaria is working, despite logistical challenges.

Amy Maxmen
News10 Nov 2017
Nature
CRISPR: the movie

New gene-editing documentary showcases biology’s hottest tool — up to the point when things went awry. By Amy Maxmen

Amy Maxmen
Books & Arts11 Nov 2019
Nature

Volume: 576, P: 206-207
Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem

Amy Maxmen lauds a study of the bold project to rescue Owens Lake.

Amy Maxmen
Books & Arts12 Nov 2018
Nature

Volume: 563, P: 322-324
Malaria subsidy pilot soars, but some see turbulence ahead

Amy Maxmen
News04 May 2012
Nature Medicine

Volume: 18, P: 634-635
The hard facts

For women worldwide, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed and has the highest death toll. With improvements in screening and treatments over the past 50 years, more women are living longer, but the numbers reveal some tough challenges. By Amy Maxmen.

Amy Maxmen
Comments & Opinion30 May 2012
Nature

Volume: 485, P: S50-S51
Coronapod: solving the COVID vaccine manufacturing problem

As low-income countries fight for COVID vaccines, drug companies are resisting calls to partner with firms in the global south.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News25 Sept 2021
Nature
Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine

Pharmaceutical companies have declined to license their COVID vaccines, so South African scientists have copied them instead.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News11 Feb 2022
Nature
Coronapod: COVID boosters amidst global vaccine inequity

Should wealthy nations give booster shots when billions remain unvaccinated?

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News13 Aug 2021
Nature
Coronapod: Dexamethasone, the cheap steroid that could cut coronavirus deaths

Hope rises as the first potentially life-saving treatment emerges from drug trials.

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
Benjamin Thompson
News19 Jun 2020
Nature
How to defuse malaria’s ticking time bomb

Scientists are racing to stamp out the disease in southeast Asia before unstoppable strains spread.

Amy Maxmen
News25 Jul 2018
Nature

Volume: 559, P: 458-465
Coronapod: the open-science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity

Can a collaboration of 15 countries, co-led by the WHO, deliver vaccine independence to the global south against all the odds?

Noah Baker
Amy Maxmen
News29 Jul 2022
Nature
Three technologies that changed genetics

Genome editing uses enzymes that are targeted to sequences of DNA to make cuts. These cuts are then repaired by the cell's machinery. This technology allows scientists to disrupt or modify genes with unprecedented precision. By Amy Maxmen, infographic by Denis Mallet.

Amy Maxmen
Comments & Opinion02 Dec 2015
Nature

Volume: 528, P: S2-S3
Psychiatry: The dispossessed

Amy Maxmen views a prizewinning film that shines a light into the dark corners of US psychiatric care.

Amy Maxmen
Books & Arts10 Oct 2012
Nature

Volume: 490, P: 174-175
Medicine: Heroes of global health

Amy Maxmen assesses a documentary on medical pioneer Paul Farmer and colleagues round the world.

Amy Maxmen
Books & Arts29 Jun 2017
Nature

Volume: 546, P: 598
Side effects vex anti-malaria push in Sierra Leone

Mass drug distribution intended to reduce cases with Ebola-like symptoms.

Amy Maxmen
News30 Dec 2014
Nature
Grassroots initiatives

A Cambodian group has developed a pioneering community-based approach to HIV and TB care and research. Amy Maxmen describes how this powerful model is being expanded to other war-torn countries.

Amy Maxmen
Comments & Opinion14 Jul 2010
Nature

Volume: 466, P: S20
Ahead of WHO meeting, experts clash over tuberculosis targets

Amy Maxmen
News06 Feb 2013
Nature Medicine

Volume: 19, P: 115
Erratum: Fighting the monster

Amy Maxmen
Amendments and Corrections26 Aug 2010
Nature

Volume: 466, P: 1134
Day in the life of a Nature reporter

Amy Maxmen
News31 Oct 2019
Nature Research
The race to unravel the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the United States

As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments.

Amy Maxmen
News06 Mar 2020
Nature

Volume: 579, P: 181-182
Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection

Powerful gene-editing tool could help to diagnose illnesses such as Lassa fever early and rein in the spread of infection.

Amy Maxmen
News19 Feb 2019
Nature

Volume: 566, P: 437
Fighting the monster

Co-infection with HIV and tuberculosis is a potent combination. Amy Maxmen investigates the impact of this deadly duo.

Amy Maxmen
Comments & Opinion14 Jul 2010
Nature

Volume: 466, P: S18-S19
Malaria: A race against resistance

Several African nations could strike a major blow against malaria by sacrificing the efficacy of some older drugs. Can they make it work?

Amy Maxmen
News13 Nov 2013
Nature

Volume: 503, P: 186-188
Nature’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2021

An Omicron investigator, a Mars explorer and an AI ethics pioneer are some of the people behind the year’s big research stories.

Ewen Callaway
Holly Else
Richard Van Noorden
News15 Dec 2021
Nature

Volume: 600, P: 591-604
Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019

Picks include a quantum pioneer, a co-discoverer of Ebola and a bioethicist-turned-activist.

David Cyranoski
Nisha Gaind
Alexandra Witze
News17 Dec 2019
Nature

Volume: 576, P: 361-372
Ecologists dig deep for DNA

Soil samples can reveal biological diversity.

Amy Maxmen
News23 Sept 2011
Nature
Erratum: Grassroots initiatives

Amy Maxmen
Amendments and Corrections19 Aug 2010
Nature

Volume: 466, P: 1006
Biologist exits prestigious post years after violating sexual-harassment policy

The incident raises important questions about how institutions handle accusations of harassment that occurred at different universities — particularly in the #MeToo era.

Amy Maxmen
News24 Feb 2020
Nature

Volume: 579, P: 15-16
Salk Institute asks judge to narrow scope of gender-discrimination suit

A case brought by cancer researcher Beverly Emerson is scheduled for trial in California later this year.

Amy Maxmen
News18 Aug 2018
Nature
Prominent biologist resigns from top US institute after harassment allegations

Inder Verma steps down from Salk Institute before investigation into accusations concludes.

Amy Maxmen
News12 Jun 2018
Nature
Obama science adviser: Trump immigration ban ‘an abomination’

John Holdren worries that immigration restrictions could harm researchers’ ability to collaborate across borders.

Amy Maxmen
News30 Jan 2017
Nature
Why the United States is having a coronavirus data crisis

Political meddling, disorganization and years of neglect of public-health data management mean the country is flying blind.

Amy Maxmen
News25 Aug 2020
Nature

Volume: 585, P: 13-14
Judge limits scope of gender-discrimination lawsuit against Salk Institute

Cancer researcher Beverly Emerson’s suit will go to trial in December.

Amy Maxmen
News31 Aug 2018
Nature