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23andMe DNA test for Alzheimer’s risk approved for sale in US

Health

23andMe DNA test for Alzheimer’s risk approved for sale in US

The US Food and Drug Administration has given approval to the company 23andMe to market a spit test that assesses a person’s risk for 10 diseases

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Coloured CT-scan showing the brain of a person who has Parkinson's disease

Health

Injecting virus into brain may relieve Parkinson’s symptoms

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Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

Life

Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

Earth

Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

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Arm extended horizontally while gripping phone

Technology

Super-fast Parkinson's app will track symptoms more closely

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Bowls of fruit and vegetables

Health

You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5

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An old man on the phone

Technology

Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice

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Illustration of nanotube structure

Technology

Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain's activity without damaging it

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cells

Health

Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

Health

Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

Deep brain stimulation might help treat obesity and depression, but requires extreme brain surgery. Now researchers have managed to use electric fields instead

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Technology

‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

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Technology

First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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Life

Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Health

World war on superbugs can only be won by a UN-led global effort

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