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Synthetic biology can supplement traditional farmers

Traditional spice producers and synthetic biologists don't have to compete – there's room for both

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Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos

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Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

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Killing with kindness: Conservation's cautionary tale

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DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches

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Meet your unborn child – before it's even conceived

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Meet your unborn child – before it's even conceived

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Echo dislocation

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We're offering $2m for the best ocean acidity mapping

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We're offering $2m for the best ocean acidity mapping

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Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

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Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

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Irrepressible robot roo bounces on flexible blades

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Irrepressible robot roo bounces on flexible blades

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Just described 'microjewel' snail in extinction danger

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Just described 'microjewel' snail in extinction danger

Ten new species of a group of tiny snails with quirky irregular shells have been described just in time to lose them forever

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Who really decoded Down's syndrome?

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Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world

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Hive minds: Time to drop the fiction of individuality

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Sense of proportion

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