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We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine, researchers say

Colorado has become the second US state to legalise psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses, but psychedelics research lags far behind studies on other drugs

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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

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A sensor in use over a toilet

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AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether people have diarrhoea

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Group A streptococcus bacteria

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What we know so far about strep A child deaths in the UK

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The omicron coronavirus variant binding to a cell's ACE2 receptor

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Drug that targets ACE2 receptors may work against new covid variants

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First faecal transplant treatment approved for use in the US

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An electron micrograph of an HIV virus particle (red/yellow) budding from the plasma membrane of an infected T cell (blue), which make up part of the immune system

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Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by JEROME FAVRE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13641875g) Mainland Chinese students hold sheets of blank paper during a vigil for the victims of China's zero-COVID policy and the victims of the Urumqi fire at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, 29 November 2022. Protests against China's strict COVID-19 restrictions have erupted in various cities including Beijing and Shanghai, triggered by a tower fire that killed 10 people in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. University students hold a vigil for the victims of China's zero-COVID policy, Hong Kong - 29 Nov 2022

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China's failure to vaccinate makes giving up on zero covid a huge risk

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Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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Human sperm

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Sperm-blocking vaginal gel could be a reliable contraceptive method

A gel that has prevented almost all of 1 billion sperm getting past the cervix in sheep could become an alternative to hormonal birth control methods but without the side effects

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Alzheimer's drug lecanemab slows cognitive decline but concerns linger

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An mRNA vaccine protects mice against deadly plague bacteria

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Drug clears sleeping sickness parasite from the body in clinical trial

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How postbiotics could boost your health and even help reverse ageing

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