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Some genes in the brain may make 100 different proteins

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Some genes in the brain may make 100 different proteins

Researchers have sequenced the full "transcriptome" of part of the human brain, revealing all the ways its cells use genes to make proteins

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Why Alzheimer’s is not a single disease – and why that matters

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Why Alzheimer’s is not a single disease – and why that matters

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Alzheimer's disease. Series of coloured computed tomography (CT) scans of an axial section through the head of a 74-year-old patient with Alzheimer's disease. The front of the brain (brown) is at the top. Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease and a common cause of dementia in the elderly. It causes brain atrophy (decrease in size), shown here by the enlarged ventricle cavities (white, at centre of brain) and the widened pale blue regions. The brain shrinkage caused by Alzheimer's disease leads to memory loss, confusion, personality changes and ultimately death. The cause of Alzheimer's disease is not known and there is no cure.

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Treating Alzheimer's as having many causes may help us beat it

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Vaccine skin patch

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Skin patch coated in covid-19 vaccine may work better than injections

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Australia has had zero measles in 2021 due to covid-19 border closure

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koala being vaccinated

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This koala was first to be vaccinated against chlamydia in new trial

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Lake Hazen base camp on Ellesmere Island

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Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species in the Arctic

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Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of deadly Marburg virus

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Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of deadly Marburg virus

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Frogs are battling their own terrible pandemic – can we stop it?

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Frogs are battling their own terrible pandemic – can we stop it?

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Some people can tell if you have an infection just by looking at you

People in different cultures – including hunter-gatherers in equatorial rainforests and city dwellers in Europe – can tell when someone else is in the early stages of infection by looking at them

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Traded wild animals carry 75 per cent of diseases humans can catch

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Cattle vaccine to be trialled in England in fight against bovine TB

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Early dementia more likely to impact Black and Hispanic people in US

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Rising BMI and diabetes have stalled the decline of heart disease

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