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UK's first baby free of breast cancer gene born

Specialists at University College London spoke of their delight after revealing that the girl and her mother were in good health

Cancer victim Koo Stark backs screeening

Actress who had a double mastectomy after developing breast cancer says the development of screening was hugely beneficial

Cancer screening: a tough decision for parents

For some mothers, undergoing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis could easily result in having no children at all

Birth of first British baby to be screened for cancer

Family blighted by three generations of a deadly breast cancer are first to use pre-implantation screening

Thousands flock to see shark dissected

The first live and online autopsy of a 10ft, 660lb great white shark proved a major attraction in Auckland today

The fish with four eyes (and mirrors)

Brownsnout spookfish uses tiny plates to peer through the gloom

Bush turns green to save marine treasures

US President is to create a protection area that covers 195,000 square miles and includes the deepest underwater canyon on earth

Scientists to dissect great white live online

Scientists in New Zealand are to dissect a great white shark live online to uncover what really lies inside the marine predators

Hold on: galaxies may be on collision course

The solar system is orbiting the centre of the Milky Way at a giddy 600,000 mph - 100,000 mph faster than was thought

The pink iguana that Darwin missed

Scientists on the Galápagos Islands have identified a species of iguana that is more than five million years old

Probability lessons teach how to be winners

One of Britain’s leading mathematicians says pupils should be taught the statistical skills to make sensible life decisions

Maybe 2008 was not such a bad year . . .

Why 11,000BC was an exceptionally bad year for the United States

Mockingbird goes back to its origins

A bird that almost died out after giving naturalist Charles Darwin his eureka moment will sing again on its home island

Down House offers insight into evolution

The laboratory where Charles Darwin developed much of his evolutionary thinking is to reopen to the public next month