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Japanese drugmaker Sumitomo Pharma says the first patient has been treated with iPS cell-derived brain cell precursors for Parkinson's disease, after the therapy won conditional approval in March.
Archaeologists opened a wooden cabinet in a house on Via dell'Abbondanza and found cosmetics tools, coins and a charm necklace.
The health and social care select committee says the 10-year pledge to end the obesity epidemic needs a new plan led by the prime minister. Ministers are urged to report to parliament within three months.
Prosecutors say fraudsters used stolen identities to enrol fictitious students in US colleges and send aid money to Kenya.
Sara fled the Taliban and won a place on a University of Glasgow gateway course. Home Office refusals gave contradictory reasons.
Whitehead Institute researchers profiled more than 600,000 cells of Danionella cerebrum. The map covers gene activity across an adult vertebrate and tracks brain regeneration.
In Northern Ireland an IQ above 70 means no access to adult disability services. One mother says her son has been left in limbo.
A Jama Network Open study of 2,362 former players who died in 2008-2023 estimates three in four had chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Researchers say national plans largely ignore the possible collapse of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Their Nature Sustainability paper sets out five ways to prepare.
The health secretary will keep and strengthen the NHS patient watchdog and its local branches after criticism from MPs and peers of all parties.
Medical Detection Dogs will install a SniffSpace to let its dogs sample more urine from prostate cancer patients, training an electronic nose.
A charity set up by the parents of a six-year-old who died of cancer will help shape family support at Cambridge Children's Hospital before it opens in 2031.
A dispute over an OpenAI claim on the Navier-Stokes problem sits beside evidence of AI-written papers and invented citations in scientific journals.
Researchers say machine-generated replies tried and failed to stop the UK ban on disposable vapes in what appears to be a first for health policy.
Researchers have given the first direct exposure ages to recent moraines in Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula.