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Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery Centre

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Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments

Most people who die of cancer are killed by drug-resistant tumours. Can a new research centre focusing on developing anti-evolution treatments change that?

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The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa

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The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost

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A family at a party

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Hearing device picks out right voice from a crowd by reading your mind

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The device being used on a child

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Smartphone app that chirps in your ear could diagnose ear infections

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Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

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Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

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NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients

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NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients

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A surgery in action

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Shining a UV light on a special glue can repair heart wounds

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Trace stains can be difficult to identify

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Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes

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Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test

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Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test

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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

The discovery that folic acid is important to the health of pregnant women is a classic story of serendipity in science

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Technology

Instagram is attempting to crack down on misinformation about vaccines

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Every country worldwide is now using the most effective polio vaccine

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My liver, your kidney: The world's first non-identical organ swap

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Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies

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