Stem cell treatment offers hope for cardiac patients
Material could be gathered from someone's own heart, multiplied in the laboratory and used for repair and regeneration.
Snappy solution to a serious shortage
Scientists are one step closer to making synthetic human blood - thanks to the amazing properties of crocodile haemoglobin. Emma Young reports.
Scientists herald malaria breakthrough
Trials in Mozambique point to potential of vaccine.
Top athletes seek gene therapy boost
Sports stars could use cutting-edge technology developed to help patients as an 'undetectable' doping method.
A victim of its own success
Aspirin's ability not just to kill pain, but to prevent heart attacks and cancer too, is putting new research on its potential uses in danger, writes Diarmuid Jeffreys.
The time of your life
Your body clock is ticking, and scientists now understand its workings better. Ian Sample finds out how this knowledge could usher in a medical revolution.