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Discover the latest health news, scientific discoveries and big ideas about the human body and treating diseases, covid-19, diet, fitness, exercise, wellness and how to live a healthy life.

Illustration of T cell therapy targeting multiple myeloma

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CAR T-cell therapy could be made in the body of someone with cancer

Treating types of cancer with CAR T-cell therapy is expensive and inconvenient, but a streamlined approach that creates the therapy within the body could make the intervention cheaper and easier

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared to eight hours after being infected with the cold sore virus (right)

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Cold sore virus immediately reshapes our genome to boost its growth

An illustration of the drug rapamycin (red) inhibiting the protein complex mTORC1, which has various effects on cellular function

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Rapamycin seems to boost longevity as effectively as eating less

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The best non-drug therapies to relieve the pain of knee osteoarthritis

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Why Lyme disease and other tick-borne conditions are on the rise

Cartoon-style illustration imagines two people in the small intestine, surrounded by microbes

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The surprisingly big impact the small intestine has on your health

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How a US agriculture agency became key in the fight against bird flu

A human vascular organoid generated from stem cells

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Blood vessel organoids quickly minimise damage to injured tissue

A blood vessel network designed by a computational model

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Complex blood vessel nets could be 3D printed for artificial organs

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How you breathe could reveal a lot about your health

Your breathing patterns are unique to you - and could be linked to your weight and mental health

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A woman’s body is a man’s world. Just ask an anatomist…

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The discovery that cancer hacks nerves could lead to fairer treatments

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Gene editing could treat damage from ‘irreversible’ kidney disease

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The chilling discovery that nerve cells help cancers grow and spread