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Health

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

It seems the nerve damage behind Parkinson's starts in the stomach or colon before spreading to brain cells - but we don't know what's causing it

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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

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Technology

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

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

Technology

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

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

Life

Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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

Health

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

Comment

Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction

Life

Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction

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First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain

Earth

First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain

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Health

Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

Features

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Life

First monkey genetically engineered to have Parkinson's created

Engineering monkeys to have human brain diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s will help us to treat the conditions better – but not everyone likes the idea

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Health

Face it, the Olympics won't be axed. We need to Zika-proof them

Analysis

Health

Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

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Technology

iPhone app tracks 600 patients in biggest ever Parkinson’s study

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Life

Autopsies suggest surgical grafts passed on Alzheimer's disease

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