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Scientists show for the first time that ‘lifeless’ prion proteins, devoid of DNA and RNA, can evolve like higher forms of life.

A suggestion that South African condoms should be branded with football during the 2010 World Cup is “nuts”, Cape Town’s mayor says.

Scientists believe they have worked out the dimensions of the most attractive female face.

Wales may become the first part of the UK to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation under assembly government plans.

A man becomes the first UK patient to receive lungs that would normally be rejected as too damaged.

Experts unveil what they claim are the world’s first bionic fingers, which they hope will transform people with missing digits lives.

Two Women and a baby are the first people to die of swine flu in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry has revealed.

Dundee University scientists believe worms could hold clues to why some people develop Parkinson’s Disease.

Babies who are small at birth or who put on weight quickly in the first two years are more likely to start puberty early.

A patient with rectal cancer has become the first to have part of their tumour destroyed by ultrasound, say UK doctors.