Embryo grown in lab without sperm, eggs or a womb. Here’s why scientists created it

An embryo was grown in lab without sperm, eggs or a womb. Here’s why scientists created it

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Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb ...
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Old polio vaccines can mutate into a dangerous version of the disease — but a new ‘super-engineered’ vaccine is much safer

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Scientists have "super-engineered" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis ...
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AI helps discover new drug that kills antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’

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Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug ...
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Slowing the advance of Alzheimer’s: Lilly’s donanemab joins lecanemab as drugs shown to limit beta amyloid plaque buildup in brains

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We could be entering the era of Alzheimer's treatments, after the second drug in under a year has been shown ...
‘Redesigning the immune system’: Experimental personalized medical treatment helps body defeat cancer by boosting tumor-spotting cells

‘Redesigning the immune system’: Experimental personalized medical treatment helps body defeat cancer by boosting tumor-spotting cells

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People with untreatable cancers have had their immune system redesigned to attack their own tumours. The experimental study involved only ...
Find it hard to control your appetite and keep your weight in check? Bigger breakfasts maximize metabolism, research suggests

Find it hard to control your appetite and keep your weight in check? Bigger breakfasts maximize metabolism, research suggests

Eating a big breakfast and a smaller dinner could aid weight loss by making you feel less hungry, say researchers ...
One year along, long COVID still plagues victims and confounds scientists

One year along, long COVID still plagues victims and confounds scientists

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The core experience of long Covid revolves around the unholy trinity of fatigue, brain fog and muscle pain. But there is ...
Infographic: Are genetically modified pigs the future of organ transplants?

Infographic: Are genetically modified pigs the future of organ transplants?

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So how close are we to using pigs for a limitless supply of organs to solve the global shortage? Using ...
WHO greenlights historic malaria vaccine rollout in Africa — although efficacy is limited

WHO greenlights historic malaria vaccine rollout in Africa — although efficacy is limited

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Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. Having a ...
Infographic: How contagious are the various COVID variants compared with other diseases?

Infographic: How contagious are the various COVID variants compared with other diseases?

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The cleanest way of comparing the pure biological spreading power of viruses is to look at their R0 (pronounced R-naught) ...
New UK COVID variant is not only more infectious - it appears to be more deadly

New UK COVID variant is not only more infectious – it appears to be more deadly

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Public Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have ...
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Birth rates expected to crash by half in coming decades in some countries, driven by educated, working women

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Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations - ...
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‘Enormous potential’: Recently discovered microbe could protect mosquitoes from malaria

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Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the ...
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T-cell that can fight all cancers: Scientists discover promising part of our immune system

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Our immune system is our body's natural defence against infection, but it also attacks cancerous cells. The scientists were looking ...
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‘Virus really has no chance’: Protein-suppressing treatment could stop common cold in its tracks

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A team at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, found one of the components which the viruses ...
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Curing the common cold? Testing on genetically modified mice is first step towards ‘complete protection’

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Scientists think they have found a way to stop the common cold and closely related viruses which can cause paralysis. Instead ...
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‘Testes in overdrive’: Male efforts to improve attractiveness can damage ability to have children

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Scientists have uncovered an evolutionary paradox where men damage their ability to have children during efforts to make themselves look ...
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Taking cancers apart ‘piece-by-piece’ in search for vulnerabilities that could be attacked with precision medicine

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Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment. A team ...
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Relapse risk could be predicted by cancer’s ‘internal wiring’

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The "internal wiring" of breast cancer can predict which women are more likely to survive or relapse, say researchers. The ...
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‘Planetary health diet’ aims to feed 10 billion people without causing ‘catastrophic’ environmental damage

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A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage ...
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‘Baby bust’—Why fertility rates are plummeting around the world

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There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found ...
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Gene therapy cures rat’s paralysis—could human beings be next?

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Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards the goal of giving paralysed people control of their hands again ...
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Hidden half of us: ‘You’re more microbe than you are human’

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More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's ...
Macular degeneration patients see hope in embryonic stem cell treatment

Macular degeneration patients see hope in embryonic stem cell treatment

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Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular ...
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‘Like a mobile phone’: The genome sequencer that fits in your pocket

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Scientists have used a device that fits in the palm of the hand to sequence the human genome. They say ...
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Hemophilia A gene therapy trial results: ‘This is huge’

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British doctors say they have achieved "mind-blowing" results in an attempt to rid people of haemophilia A. Patients are born ...
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Beta-thalassemia blood disorder removed from human embryo with gene editing

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Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told ...
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Human-pig embryos could offer more for us than their organs

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Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists ...
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