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  The Week UK

  

  Finger-prickin' good: Are simpler blood tests seeing new life years after Theranos' demise?

  theweek.com - Justin Klawans, The Week US

  Blood testing company Theranos was once valued at $10 billion, but false claims over its testing abilities led to one of the greatest collapses in …

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  The Week UK

  

  10 recent scientific breakthroughs

  theweek.com - Devika Rao, The Week US

  Scientists in many fields received little recognition for the last couple of years, as the world focused on the emergency push to develop vaccines …

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  The Week UK

  

  Brexit, Matt Hancock and black swans: five takeaways from Covid inquiry report

  theweek.com - Harriet Marsden, The Week UK

  The UK government, devolved administrations and the civil service "failed" citizens during the pandemic, according to the damning first report from …

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  The Week UK

  

  What is sickle cell anaemia?

  theweek.com - Keumars Afifi-Sabet, The Week UK

  Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between …

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  The Week UK

  

  The difficult job of defining a species

  theweek.com - Abby Wilson

  Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from …

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  The Week UK

  

  Covid might be to blame for an uptick in rare cancers

  theweek.com - Devika Rao, The Week US

  Rare types of cancer are showing up in higher numbers since the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors suspect that the virus itself may be contributing to the …