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medicine

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

Health

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

Human eggs have been removed in their most primitive state and brought to maturity in the lab for the first time, potentially boosting fertility treatments.

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Pappworth

Health

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

Features

syringes

Health

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

Insight

curare

Health

The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia

Features

Close-up of a human eye

Health

Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

Health

Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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wound scanner

Technology

Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected

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A box for transporting human tissue

Health

England’s shift to opt-out organ donation will save many lives

Comment

Anti-vaccination protest

Health

Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law

Comment

Hospital

Health

A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure

Winter crises grip the UK health system with worrying predictability and this year’s could be severe. We can move beyond this seasonal chaos, says Luke Allen

Comment

Health

Artificial embryonic stem cells tested in people for first time

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Health

Digital drug tells your doctor when you've taken your medicine

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Health

Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy

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Life

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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