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Technology

AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make

It's a nightmarish amount of work to figure out how to build a molecule from scratch. Now machines can do it and it will mean a bounty of new drugs and materials

Features

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Health

Medicinal cannabis will be available in the UK from next month

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Health

Nobody can agree about antidepressants. Here’s what you need to know

Features

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Life

A startling sexual side-effect to yawning – and other past stories

Regulars

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

Health

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

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Health

Women in England to be allowed to have abortions at home

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Health

The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma

Leader

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Life

Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves

Regulars

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Health

An exclusive look inside the UK's legal medical cannabis farm

Insight

Medical cannabis: What you really need to know

Health

Medical cannabis: What you really need to know

The UK looks set to become the latest place to legalise medical cannabis. But with its use sweeping the world, many questions remain about what it does and how

Features

Humans

We must try harder to avoid biological bias in clinical trials

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Health

First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy

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Health

Cannabis oil: what is it and does it really work as medicine?

News

Health

A whole new type of cancer therapy helps treat liver cancer

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