Every day, hundreds of Israeli volunteers drive ill Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to hospitals in Israel. Shaul Adar joins them on the road and learns why they see their neighbourly help as a step on the journey to peaceful coexistence.
The startling discovery that hundreds of thousands of Brazilians have a genetic mutation that undermines their ability to resist cancer is helping labs worldwide in their search for new treatments for the disease.
How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything.
Bushmeat – wild animals captured for food – is a valuable source of protein in Ghana. But what risks does it carry, and could bushmeat spread disease further afield? Yepoka Yeebo finds out.
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Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood.
Exploring how the breakdown of our bodies after death gives birth to new life.
One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.
What drives the partners of men who have died to try and have their babies? Jenny Morber delves into the legally and ethically fraught world of post-mortem sperm donation
A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: ageing.
Common in the US, rare in Europe and now championed in Africa, male circumcision is hotly debated. Are the gains are worth the loss?
More than a century after their discovery, we still don’t really know what blood types are for.
Why, in every country in the world, do male suicides outnumber female?
Brian Bartlett lost his leg at 24. Rose Eveleth hears how a man who just wanted to ski again invented a new kind of knee.
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