Gaming is huge. According to Forbes business magazine, the sector’s global revenue is more than the music and movie industries combined. That is a lot of people engaged in game stories and game characters. So how does gender fluidity fit in and what, in gaming, is gender euphoria? Monash’s Associate Professor Phoebe Toups Dugas works … Read more
This illustration explores how smoke components in cigarette and e-cigarette smoke obscures critical molecules like Smole-binding ligands and MR1 complexes, disrupting T cell responses. Credit: Erica Tandori Multiple chemicals in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of lung immune cell. Cigarette smoking is both widespread and deadly, yet the precise … Read more
Five years on from the first news of COVID-19, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise concerns. Chinese authorities first issued warnings about human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in 2023, but media reports indicate cases may be increasing again during China’s winter season. For most people, hMPV will cause symptoms similar to … Read more