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How to extinguish the inflammation epidemic

Stress, obesity and poor diet trigger persistent inflammation, which can lead to heart disease and depression. We’re finally working out how to fight it

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Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb

Life

Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb

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Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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Coloured scanning electron micro- graph (SEM) of a small cancerous tumour (orange) filling an alveolus of the human lung

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Boom in human gene editing as 20 CRISPR trials gear up

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Colourful bacteria

Life

Gene tweak in gut bacteria could turn faeces blue if you’re ill

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Care for people over the age of 65 is direly underfunded

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Think the UK has a social care crisis now? Just wait until 2025

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Trump's proposed 2018 budget cuts science and healthcare

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Trump’s 2018 budget slashes funding from healthcare and science

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A girl with cholera

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Unprecedented cholera outbreak tears through war-torn Yemen

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Bifidobacterium bacteria

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Diabetes drug may work by changing gut bacteria makeup

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Bacterial image

Life

Bacteria engineered to produce living, full-colour photographs

Gut bugs have been modified to turn red, green or blue when bathed in light of the corresponding colour so they create bacterial photocopies

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Flushing fallopian tubes with poppy seed oil boosts fertility

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Technology

Google DeepMind NHS data deal was ‘legally inappropriate’

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UK may force charities to prove complementary therapies work

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Memo to whoever lands the world's top health job – do this first

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