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genetic medicine

Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

Analysis

A baby being breastfed

Health

Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

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Two men standing in a vape shop, one inspecting products, the other behind the counter exhaling smoke

Health

We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

Analysis

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

Health

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

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Pappworth

Health

The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients

Features

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Health

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

Analysis

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Leader

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, first cloned monkeys

Life

51¶¯Âþs have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer

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syringes

Health

How 'stem cell' clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments

Hundreds of clinics offering unregulated stem cell therapies have sprung up across the US and Australia thanks to lax oversight

Insight

Health

The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia

Features

Health

Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes

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Health

Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Health

It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses

Culture

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