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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature
Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine
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Our cancer strategies aren’t working – it’s time to change that
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First anatomical evidence of several types of schizophrenia
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Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake
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Technology
Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts
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There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2
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Why the UK’s new opt-out organ donation plan probably won’t work
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Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby
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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean
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We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives
E-cigarettes were once seen as a sinister cousin to ordinary smoking. Now doctors in the UK think they could be a public health lifeline
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Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time
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The doctor who exposed the UK’s terrible experiments on patients
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How ‘stem cell’ clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments
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The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia
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