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Protein discovery could lead to 'genomic debuggers'

We may soon be able to build proteins designed to bind to faulty RNA, fixing mutations

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Almost toothless rodent survives on soft prey

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Plant senses: Taste

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Plant senses: Taste

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Plant senses: Touch

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Plant senses: Touch

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Plant senses: Smell

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Plant senses: Smell

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Older fathers pass on more mutations

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Older fathers pass on more mutations

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Plant senses: Hearing

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Plant senses: Hearing

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Biotech is thrusting us into new political territory

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Biotech is thrusting us into new political territory

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Plant senses: Sight

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Plant senses: Sight

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Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did

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Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did

Not content with learning sign language or coining "words", Kanzi the bonobo now seems able to make flint tools as well as our ancestors did

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Plight of the bumblebee: Scruffy pollinator in peril

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Only you: 11 things that make each of us a one-off

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Stress may cause women's brains to age prematurely

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Panel questions location of US bio-defence lab

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