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genetic medicine

Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb

Life

Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb

Newborn babies preferentially look at faces. Now fetuses have been seen tracking a face-like pattern, suggesting this ability develops by the third trimester

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Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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Coloured scanning electron micro- graph (SEM) of a small cancerous tumour (orange) filling an alveolus of the human lung

Health

Boom in human gene editing as 20 CRISPR trials gear up

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Colourful bacteria

Life

Gene tweak in gut bacteria could turn faeces blue if you’re ill

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Care for people over the age of 65 is direly underfunded

Health

Think the UK has a social care crisis now? Just wait until 2025

Comment

Trump's proposed 2018 budget cuts science and healthcare

Health

Trump’s 2018 budget slashes funding from healthcare and science

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A girl with cholera

Health

Unprecedented cholera outbreak tears through war-torn Yemen

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Bifidobacterium bacteria

Health

Diabetes drug may work by changing gut bacteria makeup

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Bacterial image

Life

Bacteria engineered to produce living, full-colour photographs

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x-ray image of a woman's uterus and fallopian tubes

Health

Flushing fallopian tubes with poppy seed oil boosts fertility

A 100-year-old treatment in which women have their fallopian tubes flushed with oil makes them more likely to get pregnant without IVF treatments

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Technology

Google DeepMind NHS data deal was ‘legally inappropriate’

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Health

UK may force charities to prove complementary therapies work

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Health

Memo to whoever lands the world's top health job – do this first

Comment

Health

First timeline of a cancer tracks tumours from origin to spread

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