Health
Your body fat may be protecting you against infections
Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections
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Life
2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed
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Technology
Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected
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Health
Anti-vax views must not derail France’s compulsory vaccine law
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Life
No, aliens aren’t lurking on the International Space Station
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Health
Caesarean sections cause obesity and microbiome changes in mice
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Health
WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent
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Earth
Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change
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Health
Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs
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Health
It’s too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research
The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report
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Earth
Air pollution changes what bugs colonise our airways
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Health
Stainless steel faucets may up risk of legionnaires’ disease
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Health
Activated charcoal drug can protect microbiome from antibiotics
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Environment
On the trail of dragons with blood that can save people’s lives
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