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belly fat

Health

Your body fat may be protecting you against infections

Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

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microbial growths

Life

2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed

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wound scanner

Technology

Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected

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Anti-vaccination protest

Health

Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law

Comment

An astronaut outside the International Space Station

Space

No, aliens aren't lurking on the International Space Station

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A baby being born by C-section

Health

Caesarean sections cause obesity and microbiome changes in mice

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Girl collecting water in refugee camp

Health

WHO launches bold plan to slash cholera deaths by 90 per cent

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Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change

Earth

Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change

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person receiving chemotherapy

Health

Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs

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People in biosafety suits

Life

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report

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Earth

Air pollution changes what bugs colonise our airways

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Health

Stainless steel faucets may up risk of legionnaires' disease

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Health

Activated charcoal drug can protect microbiome from antibiotics

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Life

On the trail of dragons with blood that can save people’s lives

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