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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.

An Anopheles gambiae mosquito

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Mosquitoes are being genetically modified so they can’t spread malaria

Gene editing mosquitoes so they die before malaria parasites can develop inside them could stop the spread of the deadly parasite entirely, according to lab studies and computer models

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3d illustration of blood cells and Plasmodium sp. parasites causing malaria.

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Your gut microbes may influence how ill you get with malaria

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A fungal disease affecting some amphibians may have caused malaria to surge in Costa Rica and Panama

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Amphibian deaths in Central America led to malarial mosquito surge

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Umbilical cord ‘milking’ cuts brain injury risk for babies born limp

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A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus (purple)

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The omicron coronavirus variant may protect against flu

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An increased number of girls are going through premature sexual development amid the pandemic

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Covid-19 pandemic linked to early onset of puberty in some girls

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Liquid squirting from a grapefruit

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Female emission at orgasm confirmed to release fluid from the bladder

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Patient in a hospital bed

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Infections that need hospital treatment may increase Alzheimer’s risk

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Illustration of a CAR-T cell

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Radical lupus treatment uses CAR T-cell therapy developed for cancer

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Image of a stylised clock face on gene code background

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DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells

Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundamental about ageing

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Wound dressing made of 3D-printed skin could help people with diabetes

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Streetlights in Europe are getting bluer – that may be bad for health

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Antimicrobial drug derived from tree sap could treat chronic wounds

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Cold water swimming should be introduced as a public health measure

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