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What is CRISPR?

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What is CRISPR?

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world.

Gene therapy

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Gene therapy

Undated handout photo issued by the British Heart Foundation of heart patches that could provide a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people after suffering a heart attack. Tuesday June 4, 2019. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said the patches - which are grown in a lab and help repair damaged hearts - could one day provide an off-the-shelf treatment for patients.

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Stem cell patch may help repair damage caused by heart attacks

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Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer's disease

CPR makes someone more likely to survive cardiac arrest

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Women who have cardiac arrests are more likely to die than men

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How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart

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How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart

Regulars

Inability to distinguish odours could be a sign of ill health

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A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don’t know why

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The symbiotic pacemaker based on implantable triboelectric nanogenerator.

Technology

Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests

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Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them

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Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them

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A heart monitor

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Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate

Your movements are more likely to occur between heartbeats than during them, a quirk that could help us synchronise with other people

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Genetic risk scores on their own aren't that good at predicting health

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Meet the super-smeller who can diagnose Parkinson's at a sniff

Features

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Parkinson’s drug pumped directly into brain fails to pass key tests

Analysis

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Young people’s blood is being tested as a treatment for Parkinson’s

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