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Opinion: Why some humans developed a taste for milk and some didn’t

11 Mar 2016

Giles Yeo (MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit) discusses the origins of lactose intolerance.

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March of the superbugs

13 Feb 2013

Scientists who recently discovered a new strain of superbug have now tracked its transmission between animals and humans.

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Indians and Europeans share a milky past

09 Sep 2011

Cambridge University researchers have discovered that lactose tolerant milk-drinkers in India and Europe could be related to the same person who...

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