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A light micrograph of plaques in someone with lupus

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Discovery of a genetic cause of lupus could lead to new treatments

Scientists sequenced the DNA of a 7-year-old girl with severe lupus, which suggests mutations to the gene TLR7 may cause the autoimmune condition

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Katharine Hepburn in the 1981 film On Golden Pond, for which she won Best Actress at the Oscars aged 74

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Oscar-winning actors live longer than unsuccessful nominees

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KD738R Elderly overweight man

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People over 80 with ‘overweight’ BMI may have lower mortality rates

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An older couple kissing

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A third of people aged over 70 are sexually active, survey reveals

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Covid-19 vaccines don't affect success of fresh embryo transfer IVF

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D7MNDD Neural network, artwork

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Artificial nerve cells have been made in the lab

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CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

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LISBON, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: A mask-clad Nova Medical School final-year student gives a woman a blood glucose test to check possible diabetes at a screening post in Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. Nova Medical School final-year students perform free cardiovascular screening, hypertension, diabetes and obesity check-ups to passers-by in a joint project with Lisbon's Areeiro Parish (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Is covid-19 causing a global surge of diabetes cases?

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Antibiotic-resistant acne could be treated by phage therapy

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A farmer?s wife breastfeeds her baby while two other women give water to a child from a pitcher. From The Five Senses Series by Fredrick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1632-1670. CREDIT: F. Bloemaert/A. Bloemaert/N. Visscherimage/Rijks Museum/Public Domain

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Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn't breastfeed

An analysis of bones from about 500 individuals who died between 1830 and 1867 in Middenbeemster suggests women in the dairy farming community did not breastfeed

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Covid-19 news archive: March 2022

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Buckyball-shaped scaffold makes stem cell tissue grow faster

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Meningitis vaccine may be a new weapon against 'super-gonorrhoea'

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A single mutation could make Zika virus a lot more dangerous

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