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Health

The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods

Marion Nestle has been fighting food industry giants for decades. Now she wants to expose the way they skew scientific research for their own gain

Features

loaves of bread

Health

Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

Comment

A scan showing brain implants

Health

Can a brain implant treat Alzheimer's? It might just be placebo

News

Vegetables

Health

Mediterranean diet linked to higher chance of successful IVF

News

Technician injects fluid into MinION DNA sequencer

Technology

Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

News

Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s still safer than smoking

Health

Vaping could cause cancer – but it’s still safer than smoking

News

The new ear

Health

Children get new ears grown from their own cells in world first

News

Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong, the cloned monkeys

Health

Are human clones next? Your trickiest cloning questions answered

News

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Health

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

Analysis

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

Health

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

Among men, half of the risk associated with smoking a pack of 20 comes from just the first cigarette

News

Health

Smart contact lens monitors sweetness of diabetics' tears

News

Health

Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice

Leader

Health

Cycle for your supper on a gyro-spiraliser

Regulars

Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Leader