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

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Holly Else
Richard Van Noorden
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Activity of convalescent and vaccine serum against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron

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Hala Alshammary
Florian Krammer
Research Briefing 31 Dec 2021
Broadly neutralizing antibodies overcome SARS-CoV-2 Omicron antigenic shift

Elisabetta Cameroni
John E. Bowen
Davide Corti
Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
Considerable escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron to antibody neutralization

Delphine Planas
Nell Saunders
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Molecular biologists: let’s reconnect with nature

A New Year’s resolution for bench scientists is to step out of the lab to study how life really works.

Edith Heard

World View 03 Jan 2022
Two years of COVID-19 in Africa: lessons for the world
Christian T. Happi
John N. Nkengasong
Comment 03 Jan 2022
Webb telescope blasts off successfully — launching a new era in astronomy
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Researchers fear growing COVID vaccine hesitancy in developing nations
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News 23 Dec 2021
The future of global health, and mapping the unseen: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson
Book Review 22 Dec 2021
Fatal lab explosion in China highlights wider safety fears
Andrew Silver
News 22 Dec 2021
Sustainability at the crossroads

Editorial 21 Dec 2021

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  Florian Krammer
  
  Research Briefing 31 Dec 2021
- Striking antibody evasion manifested by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2
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  Sho Iketani
  David D. Ho
  
  Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
- Cardiovascular diseases disrupt the bone-marrow niche
  
  The production of blood cells, including some immune cells, relies heavily on the bone-marrow microenvironment. Cardiovascular diseases are now found to corrupt this niche, leading to imbalances in blood-cell production.
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  News & Views 23 Dec 2021
- Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization
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  Laurelle Jackson
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  Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
- Omicron escapes the majority of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies
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  Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
- Considerable escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron to antibody neutralization
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  Olivier Schwartz
  
  Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
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- Broadly neutralizing antibodies overcome SARS-CoV-2 Omicron antigenic shift
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  John E. Bowen
  Davide Corti
  
  Research Briefing 23 Dec 2021
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