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epigenetics

What we exhale is unique to us – our 'breathprint'

Health

What we exhale is unique to us – our 'breathprint'

Everyone's breath contains a distinctive set of metabolic compounds, so breath tests could be used to detect and monitor disease

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Life

Women abused as children likelier to bear autistic child

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Life

Stress can affect future generations' genes

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Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship

Health

Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship

Opinion

Epigenetics: What's left to find out

Epigenetics: What's left to find out

Features

Worker bees reboot brain genes to suit the task

Life

Worker bees reboot brain genes to suit the task

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Life

Epigenetics gives clues to human cancer susceptibility

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Life

Epigenetics gives clues to human cancer susceptibility

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Threatened species need not be harmed by inbreeding

Life

Threatened species need not be harmed by inbreeding

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Uterus tweak shields fetus from mother's immune attack

Health

Uterus tweak shields fetus from mother's immune attack

How a fetus avoids attack from its mother's immune system is a long-standing mystery – a study in mice brings us a step closer to an answer

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Life

RNA breakthrough transforms idea of gene control

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Health

Exercise instantly boosts fat-busting genes

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Life

Prions point to a new style of evolution

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Life

Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change

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