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Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money?

29 August 2018

Forget your own genome – now you can pay to sequence the DNA of the microbes in your gut and get advice on which foods to eat for better health
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Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it

29 August 2018

Far from being a slow process, evolution can act fast and is responsible for major health problems from cancer to antimicrobial resistance. Now we have the power to end it

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