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HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

Sabotaging HIV with the CRISPR gene-editing technique unexpectedly helped the virus gain resistance to the process

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Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

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Just say maybe: Is the world ready to abandon the war on drugs?

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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

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Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

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Calls for pharma to follow GSK and make drugs more accessible

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AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug

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Humans

The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

When it comes to behaving ethically, trusting our neurons over our psychology or our society may be a big mistake, argues a book by Harris Wiseman

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Embryo cells decide their future only two days after conception

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Investment in renewables was double that of coal and gas in 2015

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Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?

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US introduces measures to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic

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