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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. ...
Scientists in the UK and Belgium think they have figured out how brain cells die in Alzheimer's disease. It has been a mystery and a source of...
Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say...
Sometimes it can feel like the world is on fire. Europe has been baking in a heatwave nicknamed the settimana infernale - "week of hell" - in Italy....
Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports. The synthetic...
Taurine - a nutrient found in meat, fish and sold as a supplement - extends life and boosts health in a range of animal species, scientists say. ...
We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown to slow the disease. Experts said we...
Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a "world-changer" by the scientists who developed it. The...
An unprecedented analysis of how cancers grow has revealed an "almost infinite" ability of tumours to evolve and survive, say scientists. The...
Giving young babies - between four and six months old - tiny tastes of smooth peanut butter could dramatically cut peanut allergies, say scientists. ...