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First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains

A radioactive tracer has let researchers watch patterns of gene activity across healthy brains, as well as in those of people with schizophrenia

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Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us

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children with Downs

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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down’s

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Cells in the brain

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Best look yet at how our brain’s sewage system flushes out waste

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A man smoking a joint in a car

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Speedy cannabis spit test could spot people driving while high

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Gluten-free water: surely that’s not a real thing is it?

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Dog sperm quality decline is blamed on pet food chemicals

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Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

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Warming seas linked to rise in cholera bacteria in Europe and US

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Triple-whammy drug kills parasites that make 20 million sick

A new compound targets the parasites that cause Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, illnesses that together kill 50,000 people annually

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Obamacare has already improved health of low-income Americans

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Why do we fall for false positives even though they’re common?

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Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

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GM mosquito trial in Florida given the go-ahead by regulator

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