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You Are What Your Mother Eats 🍔

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Why do humans get fevers? 🤒

Why do some wounds scar and others don’t? 🤕

Can a gut infection change your personality? 🤒

Are Cancer Cells SMARTER than Healthy Body Cells? 🤓

Human Memory: Reproductive or Reconstructive? 🧠

Metabolism 🍔

Unravelling antibiotic resistance and how we can tackle it 💊

Vaccines – will mRNA render other forms of vaccine obsolete? 💉

You Are What Your Mother Eats 🍔

Why did Italy get rid of the monarchy? 👑

Ketogenic diets: mania or miracle? 🥑

“How are you?” “I have no idea.” 🤔

The therapeutic potential of silence 🤐

Can Taylor Swift actually make you emotional? 😢

Pathology: The arms race between viruses and humankind ☢️

The philosophy behind that Spider-Man meme 🕷️

Don't take too much Calpol! 💊

Do we need EYES to SEE??! 👀

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