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75th stories: Graham Liggins, lambs’ lungs and babies’ lives

The corticosteroid treatment based on Graham Liggins’s work has had a huge effect in saving the lives of premature babies. To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding...

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The (neglected) ties binding human and animal health

A medical team at work in Kenya. Animal diseases make up 60 per cent of all human pathogens and have a significant impact on poverty. Yet for many years, the worst diseases were sorely neglected by the...

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Milk, metabolism and making it pay

A cow eating Why do Scandinavian cows have good genes? How often do dairy cows have calves? Why are cows that produce more milk at greater risk of becoming infertile? I found answers to all these...

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Image of the Week: Endangered Mountain Gorilla

Our image of the week this week is of a young gorilla called Nyanjura, part of a small population of mountain gorillas from the Virunga volcanic mountain range in Africa. In 1981 the population size...

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