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cell biology

artwork

Life

We've added letters to the genetic code – and the results are amazing

The first life forms with a six-letter genetic code are already pumping out drugs and other materials that nature has never seen before

Features

Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

Health

Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

Culture

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Mitochondria in a cell

Humans

Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children

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ants

Life

Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading

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Monica Gagliano

Life

To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers

Leader

Monica Gagliano

Life

Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains

Features

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

Life

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

Features

Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

Video

Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

Evolutionary biologist Judith Mank explores the purpose of sex, and why its evolution can lead to males and females that look and behave differently.

Video

Life

Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins

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Environment

Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

Culture

Video

Venki Ramakrishnan: The giant gene-translating machine

Video

Environment

Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise

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