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Human mini-organs grown in rat brains

Miniature, underdeveloped versions of organs including brains, bladders and pancreases are being grown in Petri dishes in laboratories around the world.It may sound...

Families dining together likely to be less stressed

A recent study found that 91% of US parents have observed their families are less stressed when they dine together.The American Heart Association...

Constant stress increases risk of death from cancer: study

Yet another study has shown the detrimental effects stress can have — not only on the human mind but the human body as...

Zero-COVID in China key to Xi legacy as he eyes third term

BEIJING: For many in China, years of gruelling lockdowns and privacy invasions aimed at extinguishing COVID have caused misery.For President Xi Jinping, the...

Sweden’s Paabo wins medicine Nobel for sequencing Neanderthal DNA

STOCKHOLM: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the...

WHO reports ‘worrying upsurge’ in cholera worldwide

GENEVA: After years of decline, the planet is now witnessing a "worrying upsurge" in cholera outbreaks, the World Health Organization warned Friday.In the...

US finds monkeypox vaccine highly effective in early data

WASHINGTON: The monkeypox vaccine is highly effective, protecting people as early as two weeks after the first dose, the US Centers for Disease...

Switzerland to destroy 10 mn doses of Moderna COVID jab

GENEVA: Switzerland will need to destroy 10.3 million doses of Moderna's vaccine against Covid-19, after they expired last week, the health ministry said.The...

New cystic fibrosis treatment changing lives

PARIS: David Fiant says his cystic fibrosis and the arduous therapy it required was so bad he "could no longer tell if I...

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