Christchurch patients wanted for health study

A world-first project overlaying real-time health data with air pollution information is taking off in Christchurch with the recruitment of citizen data collectors. The trust leading the project, Sensing City, wants to recruit 150 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

Smart bacteria help each other survive

The body’s assailants are cleverer than previously thought. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows for the first time how bacteria in the airways can help each other replenish vital iron. The bacteria thereby increase their chances of survival, which...