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British scientists have launched an ambitious project to cure the most common cause of age-related blindness by growing human eye tissue from stem cells.

Americans now spend an alarming $15bn a year on cosmetic surgery in a beautification frenzy that would be frowned on – if there was anyone left in the United States who could actually frown with their Botox-frozen faces.

An Edinburgh-based company just given £50,000 to scour the Scottish tidal pools may have found a new weapon against hospital superbugs.