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Developing a vaccine

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Benefits of mRNA cancer vaccines could exceed $75 billion in US alone

An analysis of ongoing trials suggests that mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to deliver health benefits worth $75 billion each year in the US alone

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Young Latin woman artist painting sidewalk mural . She is dressed in casual work clothes. Exterior of public sidewalk in downtown of large North American City. Drone point of view.

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How to extend and improve your life by getting more creative

Features

You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the way you think

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You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the way you think

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Your period may make sport injuries more severe

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False-colour nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) image of a human head

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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes

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Reconstruction of the city of Wroxeter in Roman Britain

Humans

Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health

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How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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Cheerful mother and daughter tickling and playing at home on couch

Humans

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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Woman using a mobile phone

Technology

How worried should you be about spending too much time on your phone?

Analysis

The collaborative Human Challenge study is the first in the world to perform detailed monitoring over the full course of COVID-19, from the moment a person first encounters SARS-CoV-2, throughout the infection to the point at which the virus is apparently eliminated. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), hVIVO (part of Open Orphan plc.), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Health

How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

Features

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A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria

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Health

Cars are getting bigger. This is a problem for us and for the planet

Comment

Health

A fascinatingly grisly guide to replacing and repairing body parts

Culture