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AI can predict if you’ll die soon – but we’ve no idea how it works

Artificial intelligence can predict a person’s chances of dying within a year by looking at heart test results, but doctors can't work out what patterns it’s picking up

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Baby plays with DNA double helix

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Sequencing the genome of every UK baby would be an ethical minefield

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Immunofluorescence imaging of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes grown in microgravity aboard the ISS

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Spaceflight alters heart cells but they quickly recover back on Earth

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Experimental dengue vaccine cuts infection rates in real-world trials

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A contraceptive patch uses 100 tiny needles to inject drugs

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Would you use a patch of 100 tiny needles over the contraceptive pill?

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hypnosis during surgery

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Return of hypnosis: Time to see if it really has a place in medicine

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Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

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Hypnosis

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What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health

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Donna Lu tests DNA Nudge's technology

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I tested out DNA-based food shopping and it was strange

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Chelsea Lydell holds her son, Joseph, 4, as she joins hundreds of others waiting to get into a legislative committee to oppose a proposal to give state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children can skip their shots before attending school, at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician, said his legislation would give state health officials the tools they need to prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles

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California’s strict vaccination laws may only have a small effect

In the wake of measles outbreaks, California enacted stricter laws governing vaccine exemptions – but loopholes mean many children still go without vaccinations

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Authorities do little to halt severe air pollution in northern India

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We need to ban the sale of all fireworks to the public right now

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Measles has a devastating and long-term effect on your immune system

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Experimental cancer drug that targets gene mutation can shrink tumours

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