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Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

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Ebola vaccine promising in chimps but may never be used

A promising oral vaccine could help protect Africa’s big apes from the deadly Ebola virus, but a ban on captive ape research means it may never see the light of day

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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

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Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic

Features

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Life

Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Technology

Microsoft app helps people with ALS speak using just their eyes

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Rahim Esfandyarpour

Technology

Printed ‘lab on a chip’ costs a penny and catches disease early

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Corpse of howler monkey on grass. The animal had contracted yellow fever

Life

Yellow fever outbreak is killing off rare monkeys in Brazil

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Should NHS limit spending on treatments for rare diseases?

Comment

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The Alzheimer's problem: Why we are struggling to find a cure

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Health

A cure for ageing is near but you probably can't afford it

The race is on to develop anti-ageing treatments, but will they really work? And if they do, will only the rich be to defy the ravages of time?

Insight

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UK’s first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017

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Let’s take on untreatable diseases, says gene therapy pioneer

Features

Life

GM mosquitoes approved for field trial release in Florida

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Technology

Are the US and China heading for a gene-editing ‘space race’?

Analysis