34 h. ago Inside tiny village where residents are 20x more likely to catch horror disease there's no cure for

Montchavin, a ski resort in the French Alps with a population of around 200, has seen an alarming cluster of the fatal motor neurone disease (MND) - with around one in ten people diagnosed

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3 d. ago 'My disease puts my life at risk but I don't receive the healthcare I deserve'

Following a breakthrough 'cure' for sickle cell disease being approved on the NHS, the Mirror sat down with four British people living with the condition to hear their personal stories, with powerful first-hand accounts shedding light on the realities of living with the life-threatening disease

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6 d. ago Rugby legend Kenny Logan prepares for endurance challenge in memory of Doddie Weir

Logan has pledged to "keep going" until a cure for motor neurone disease (MND) is found.

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2 w. ago Destination dubbed 'land of eternal youth' where 1/10 residents live to 100

One in 10 residents in the tiny Italian village live to be 100, an impressive statistic that has fascinated scientists.

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3 w. ago AI may help us cure countless diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine | Samuel Hume

AlphaFold, which uses AI to find a protein’s structure, has only been around since 2020 but has already had a meteoric impactAlphaFold might be the most exciting scientific innovation of this century. From Google DeepMind, and first reported in 2020, it uses artificial intelligence to figure out a protein’s 3D structure. The technology has already been used to solve fundamental questions in biology, awarded the Nobel prize (in chemistry – to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper) and revolutionised drug discovery. Like most AI, it’s only getting better – and just getting started.A protein’s structure gives us clues about its function, and helps us design new drugs. AlphaFold, which was trained on a huge database of experimentally solved structures called the Protein Data Bank, predicts a protein’s structure based on its amino acid sequence.Solving a decades-old problem: the structure of the nuclear pore complex, one of the biggest structures in the cell. This complex is the guardian of ent...

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3 w. ago I ate a local favorite while traveling and it triggered a debilitating disease that has no cure

Ella Rhian, a world-traveling Londoner, has gone viral after sharing her battle with a chronic disease brought on by a nasty bout of food poisoning.

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