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Antibiotic resistance: the rapidly emerging global crisis

Antibiotic resistance is fast becoming a major new epidemic and a serious problem for many major health organisations around the world. This is an issue that has been getting steadily worse over the years but has now reached fever- pitch – being treated with the same attention and urgent calls for action as other global health […]

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How electrical stimulation could help treat chronic pain

Chronic pain, defined as pain that persists beyond three to six months, is the leading cause of disability in the world. Some studies even suggest that as many as 43 per cent of all UK adults will suffer from this condition at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for chronic […]

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Single-sex mouse parents

Currently, the only way for a single-sex couple to have a child that is genetically related to them, is to use IVF to combine donor sperm/egg cells with DNA from one of the two parents in the couple. However, a recent study published in Cell Stem Cell was able to produce healthy offspring from the […]