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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

The discovery that folic acid is important to the health of pregnant women is a classic story of serendipity in science

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Health

Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia

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Health

Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more

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Life

Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer

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Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers

Health

Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers

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Memorial to Alfie Evans

Health

We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children

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Technology

3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions

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Health

It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness

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Health

Move over, DNA. Life's other code is more subtle and far more powerful

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Technology

AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks

Medical artificial intelligence is brittle. Although it promises to quickly analyse medical scans, it can trip up on seemingly innocuous issues

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Technology

Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos

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Technology

Handheld device could detect CRISPR bioweapons before they spread

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Broken bones in mice healed faster by heat-releasing implant

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Human genome editing is here – now we have to decide who is in charge

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