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U.S. farmers are expected to grow more genetically modified crops this year despite health concerns of overseas buyers, seed dealers say.

GlaxoSmithKline's AIDS drug abacavir could be a key weapon in battling the disease in children, British doctors said.

Homeopathy for treating asthma works no better than a placebo, a British hospital study concluded.

Oxford University extracted DNA from a dodo, the famous flightless bird hunted to extinction.

Swedish experts repaired a defective gene that encourages cancer, paving the way for a drug to combat the disease, they said.

U.S. researchers identified the ...

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