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Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK, with about 16,800 deaths in the country every year.

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Exclusive: Scientists used stem cells to create the structures, which were unable to develop into a foetus

Many animal species have a genuine fear of losing the Y chromosome in the distant future. This has already happened in some species that have naturally lost this chromosome. Such animals provide us with models to understand the process of sex-chromosome turnover and a means to repurpose another chromosome into…