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Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis
A new type of lung cell is rare in our bodies, but is the main place where the gene involved in the common hereditary condition cystic fibrosis is active
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Humans
The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes鈥� true place
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Life
Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead
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Frozen placentas could be the ticket to a long and healthy life
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Environment
Mistletoe’s cells are broken at a fundamental level
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Humans
A bacterium has been engineered to make ‘unnatural’ proteins
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Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimer鈥檚
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Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced
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Health
Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy
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Environment
Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
A coffee machine pod-like system can synthesise food from packaged pods of plant cells. The system could let us make our own jam from weird and exotic plants
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I paid 拢2000 to bank my son鈥檚 cord blood, but couldn鈥檛 use it
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Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level
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Why your real age may be older 鈥� or younger 鈥� than your years
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Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts
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