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Cholera vaccine from rice This week we have promising news for the fight against the dreadful disease cholera, because a team of scientists in Japan are developing a new vaccine against the disease using th... 17th Jun 2007	Gotta Lotta Bottle Diet-conscious New Zealanders may soon be able to tuck into naturally "skimmed" milk thanks to a programme set up to breed a herd of cows that produce milk containing les... 3rd Jun 2007
Cigs spoil sperm We’ve known for a long time that tobacco smoking can cause a range of cancers – in fact, it’s believed to be responsible for more than a quarter of all cancer deaths in the UK.&nbs... 3rd Jun 2007	Gotta Lotta Bottle Diet-conscious New Zealanders may soon be able to tuck into naturally "skimmed" milk thanks to a programme set up to breed a herd of cows that produce milk containing les... 3rd Jun 2007
Gotta Lotta Bottle Diet-conscious New Zealanders may soon be able to tuck into naturally "skimmed" milk thanks to a programme set up to breed a herd of cows that produce milk containing les... 3rd Jun 2007	Killing cancer by stealth Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in Surrey have been testing a new way to kill bowel cancer cells with a kind of “smart bomb”. The tec... 20th May 2007
The virus that came in from the cold US researchers have performed the microbiological equivalent of fighting fire with fire by showing that animals infected with members of the herpes virus family are much better at ... 20th May 2007	Scientists Swollen with Success Researchers have uncovered a natural Viagra-like chemical in the venom of a Brazilian 'wandering' spider, Phoneutria nigriventer. Kenia Pedrosa Nunes, Romulo Leite and col... 6th May 2007
Scientists Swollen with Success Researchers have uncovered a natural Viagra-like chemical in the venom of a Brazilian 'wandering' spider, Phoneutria nigriventer. Kenia Pedrosa Nunes, Romulo Leite and col... 6th May 2007	Fighting both dandruff and epilepsy It may not seem like an obvious treatment for epilepsy, but results from a team at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute have found that a chemical in anti-dandruff shampoo might b... 29th Apr 2007

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