Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor, is gaining popularity in the Republican party as a “plan B” presidential candidate. Despite aligning her views on vaccination with those of the Republican base, she has shown inconsistencies in her stance, praising the effort to expedite the Covid-19 vaccine, but opposing vaccine mandates. Her position reflects a common struggle among GOP candidates to balance public health endorsement of vaccines with their party’s growing vaccine skepticism.

Neurons Generated from Skin Cells Without Stem Cell Step in Mice
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to convert skin cells directly into neurons, bypassing the induced pluripotent stem cell