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The cancer-fighting multi-organ: 9 ways the placenta is amazing

30 May 2018

From helping us conquer the world to curing cancer, here are nine reasons why the placenta deserves our appreciation

Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility

17 August 2017

Men with extra sex chromosomes can have difficulty producing fertile sperm. Now researchers have got around this in mice by making stem cells from their skin

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