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Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer’s disease

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Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer’s disease

A prebiotic supplement that promotes good gut bacteria seems to protect against an Alzheimer’s-like disease in mice and will soon be tested in a clinical trial

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A volunteer in Seattle takes part in a trial for a vaccine developed by Moderna

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Coronavirus vaccine hope rises after a flurry of positive results

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How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war

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How a Jewish ghetto beat a typhus epidemic during the second world war

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Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

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Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain

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Climate change may push Zika virus into southern and eastern Europe

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Climate change may push Zika virus into southern and eastern Europe

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A handmade sign outside Ballachulish in Scotland’s Highlands

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Scotland could eliminate the coronavirus – if it weren't for England

Analysis

Wellington, New Zealand, in May as restrictions began to be eased

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Why New Zealand decided to go for full elimination of the coronavirus

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Tick under the microscope

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Monitoring of ticks in the US is patchy and underfunded

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Is it safe for coronavirus 'shielders' in the UK to go outside now?

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Is it safe for coronavirus 'shielders' in the UK to go outside now?

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A pig, the animal from which the swine flu (H1N1) originated

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Swine flu (H1N1)

“Swine flu” is the common name for a disease that emerged in January 2009, causing a pandemic that lasted until the middle of the following year. It is caused by a novel strain of the influenza virus called H1N1.

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Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

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Remdesivir

Mind

We can see when your brain forms a memory by watching you move

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