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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

Life

Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

The CRISPR immune system from bacteria has been engineered into silkworms, allowing them to fight off a virus that plagues the silk industry

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Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

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Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

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23andMe's breast cancer test may create false sense of security

Health

23andMe's breast cancer test may create false sense of security

Analysis

Cancer cells

Health

Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time

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Blood test

Health

There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

Analysis

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Health

Unsafe sex and STIs are rising when they really shouldn't be

Insight

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Health

Cases of measles in Europe have quadrupled in just one year

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Technology

Disease mapper shows you what infections are hitting your area

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CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Health

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

Analysis

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Health

Bowel cancer test may be a much better way to screen for polyps

A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer

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Health

People with diabetes seem to be protected against migraine

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Life

Iconic tree from Twin Peaks threatened by climate change

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Health

Pandemics past: Seven times flu has become a mass killer

Features

Health

Jab in the dark: Why we don’t have a universal flu vaccine

Features

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