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Drinking

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Timing of expressing milk and a baby drinking it affects infant sleep

Babies who drink breast milk during the night that was expressed in the daytime may take longer to fall asleep, due to changes in the level of the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin in the milk

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The stretchy and instantly adhesive patch that can cover holes in lungs

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Sticky plaster for punctured lungs stretches as they expand

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Alyssa on the day she received the base-edited cell therapy in May

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Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

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An illustration of neurons

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Stimulating the vagus nerve may reduce symptoms of multiple sclerosis

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Genetic variants may influence the likelihood we will smoke or drink alcohol

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Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and alcohol use

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Dried psilocybin mushrooms on a in purple tinted very peri, variety psilocybe cubensis rasta white. Microdosing, psychedelic trip, recreation and change of consciousness

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We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine, researchers say

Analysis

The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

Books & Arts

A sensor in use over a toilet

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AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether people have diarrhoea

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Group A streptococcus bacteria

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What we know so far about strep A child deaths in the UK

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The omicron coronavirus variant binding to a cell's ACE2 receptor

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Drug that targets ACE2 receptors may work against new covid variants

A drug that is approved for treating gallstones and liver conditions inhibits cells' ACE2 receptors, which the coronavirus' spike protein binds to

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First faecal transplant treatment approved for use in the US

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Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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China's failure to vaccinate makes giving up on zero covid a huge risk

Analysis

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Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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