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Discover the latest health news, scientific discoveries and big ideas about the human body and treating diseases, covid-19, diet, fitness, exercise, wellness and how to live a healthy life.

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How to solve the great global protein shortage that never was?

When dietary scientists thought half the world was suffering a serious protein deficit, they came up with solution that proved rather hard to swallow.

Your nose is armed and ready

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We鈥檝e discovered a whole new defence system against germs in our noses

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The cause of half of all developmental disorders is a genetic mystery

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Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics

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Blood test can spot DNA from eight different types of cancer

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Unsavory Truth review 鈥� exposing the food industry’s abuse of science

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How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes?

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Emma Byrne: Swearing is good for you

Kat Arney: Are you a genetic superhero?

Real superheroes are living amongst us: people whose DNA makes them resilient to diseases. Could you be one of them, asks science writer Kat Arney.

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A meat tax may save thousands of lives and millions of dollars

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Hormone helps regrow frog legs and may one day lead to a human therapy

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Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice

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Your gut is full of neurons and they are replaced every 2 weeks