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Growing human eggs is ‘tougher than they think’
News
Miracle on Oxford Street: Is the annual nightmare of Christmas shopping just a way of proving to ourselves that we can create a ‘family’ in a world of money?
Features
TV’s electronic assault on the brain
News
Science: Why males live fast and die young
News
Human clones plit fertility experts
News
The challenge to HRT: Healthy women reaching the menopausemay choose to start taking hormones in a bid to safeguard their hearts andbones. But do we know enough about the role of hormones to make this auniversal prescription?
Features
Review: A work in progress
Books & Arts
Strong arm of the law embraces British octopuses
News
Pesticides linked to breast cancer
News
Forum: Happy birthday, MRC – Gail Vines unearths some intriguing anecdotes about the Medical Research Council’s past
Have periods, will seek therapy: Do some women go mad every month? An influential group of psychiatrists seems to think they do
News
Planet of the free apes?: Philosophers and biologists have drawn up a bill of rights for apes as part of the latest campaign to liberate then from laboratories and zoos
Features