The race to redefine cross-border finance
Oct 19th 2021IN 1977 A string of 12 characters ushered in a new age of global finance. Until then a bank wiring money abroad needed to relay up to ten instructions on public phone lines, which were then typed into forms, taking time and causing errors. Then payments began to be facilitated by a code…
Most resistance-causing mutations in TB have now been identified
Oct 19th 2021UNTIL SARS-CoV-2 emerged, the most destructive pathogen on the planet was Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bug that causes TB. In 2020, according to the latest report from the World Health Organisation, published on October 14th, this organism cut short 1.5m lives—a figure 100,000 higher than the previous year (and the first annual rise since…