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Lab-grown skin sprouts hair and glands
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Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse.
- 1 April 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
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Call to stop 'rogue' teeth whitening
"Rogue" beauticians who offer teeth whitening and people who sell illegal kits should face tougher penalties, councils in England and Wales say.
- 2 April 2016
- From the section UK
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There are now more adults in the world classified as obese than underweight, a major study suggests.
- 1 April 2016
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- 31 March 2016
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- 29 March 2016
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- 27 March 2016
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- 24 March 2016
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- 24 March 2016
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- 28 March 2016
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- 26 March 2016
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- 24 March 2016
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- 21 March 2016
- From the section China
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Warning over DIY teeth whitening kits
- 2 April 2016
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Street dancing your way to fitness
- 2 April 2016
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- 1 April 2016
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- 1 April 2016
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- 1 April 2016
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- 31 March 2016
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- 25 March 2016
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Frog foam could deliver drug therapy
- 23 March 2016
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Why babies all over the world now are in cardboard beds
- 4 April 2016
- From the section Magazine
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Phone app 'bridges treatment gap' in rural India
- 27 March 2016
- From the section Health
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How will Eddie Izzard recover from 27 marathons?
- 21 March 2016
- From the section Magazine
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Get blood tests to hospital more quickly to speed up HIV diagnosis
- 15 March 2016
- From the section Africa
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- 7 March 2016
- From the section In Pictures
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Trial aims to 'stall' type 1 diabetes
A trial has begun in London of an immunotherapy treatment aimed at halting the progression of type 1 diabetes.
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