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Sickle-cell disease is a recessive genetic blood disorder that affects red blood cells

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Children to get CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease in trial

CRISPR gene-editing trials for treating beta thalassaemia and sickle cell disease are being extended to include people under the age of 12 after positive results in older people

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A woman lifting two 15-pound dumbbells.

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Exercising before or after a flu vaccine may make it work better

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A person wearing a mask sits on a tram in Krakow, Poland, in May

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How big a covid-19 wave could omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 cause?

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Origin of Black Death finally found in bacteria from Kyrgyzstan graves

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Polarized light micrograph of phenylalanine

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Appetite-suppressing molecule helps obese mice lose weight

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Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants

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ETKTC0 Tweezers pointing to a tick while doing Lyme disease research in College Park, Maryland, USA

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More than 1 in 7 people worldwide have had Lyme disease

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Human brain scans

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Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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One epigenome-editing injection could cut cholesterol level for years

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Brains can be hotter than the rest of our bodies, especially in women

Our grey matter can be over 2°C warmer than the rest of our body, with the highest temperatures reached by women’s brains in the second half of the menstrual cycle

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Genetic errors cause most miscarriages, confirms largest study yet

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Experimental umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease

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Covid-19 in pregnancy linked to delays in babies reaching milestones

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Black people less likely than white to get Parkinson’s surgery in US

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