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Plan to build human genome from scratch could kick off this year

After several secret meetings, scientists have officially announced a $3-billion, 10-year plan to chemically synthesise a human genome

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Relax - your phone probably isn’t going to give you cancer

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UK to trial HPV vaccine in gay men but no plans yet for all boys

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Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing

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Craig Venter's plans to scour 2 million genomes for drug targets

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State of US health: black health up, teen pregnancies down

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Watch cancer surgery streamed live in virtual reality here

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Watch cancer surgery streamed live in virtual reality here

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Cancer reversed in frogs by hacking cells' electricity with light

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Gene test can tell people with breast cancer if they need chemo

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Cancer’s penicillin moment: Drugs that unleash the immune system

The new drugs that saved Jimmy Carter are giving years of extra life to people with bleak prognoses. Have checkpoint inhibitors turned the tables on cancer?

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Gentler attack on cancer may mean we can live with it for longer

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Ketogenic diet’s reputed anticancer credentials put to test

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Tumor is the most important book I've ever written

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Vaccine halves cancer-causing HPV infections in US teen girls

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