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A surgeon in virtual reality

Technology

Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

A virtual reality simulator for training junior surgeons seems to make them better equipped to cut open real patients

News

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Life

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

News

Hospital oncology sign

Health

Our cancer strategies aren't working - it's time to change that

Comment

A brain scan

Health

First anatomical evidence of several types of schizophrenia

News

Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake

Health

Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake

News

Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts

Technology

Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts

News

Blood test

Health

There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

Analysis

Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Analysis

A baby being breastfed

Health

Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

News

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal

News

Health

We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

Analysis

Health

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

News

Health

The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients

Features

Health

The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia

Features