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As data emerge that boosters may help to protect against Omicron, the supply of vaccines to Africa is further squeezed. But fears of the COVID-19 variant may increase uptake, which is worryingly low in some countries.
Since the legalization of cannabis for recreational use in 2018, an expected boom in Canadian cannabis research has failed to happen, which has led scientists to demand changes in how clinical trials are regulated.
In the past year, there has been more CRISPR news than the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. Gene editing has continued its forward momentum in major ways, and scientists are beginning to see results.