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genetic medicine

Two dogs with their heads looking out of the tops of a row of cubicles. They are both clones of the same black-and-tan German Shepherd dog, and their only difference is that the left ear of one of them points upwards

Earth

Inside the cloning factory that creates 500 new animals a day

A controversial Korean lab led by Woosuk Hwang is moving from cloning pets to endangered animals. But will cloning help or hurt these species?

Analysis

A baby having its umbilical cord cut

Health

Umbilical blood cells kill cancer quicker than adult cells

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4 million at risk of Zika infection as El Niño increases spread

Life

4 million at risk of Zika infection as El Niño increases spread

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Autopsies suggest surgical grafts passed on Alzheimer's disease

Life

Autopsies suggest surgical grafts passed on Alzheimer's disease

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Screen everyone for depression? Good intention, very bad idea

Life

Screen everyone for depression? Good intention, very bad idea

Comment

Crisis in antibiotic resistance could be slowed by blood test

Health

Crisis in antibiotic resistance could be slowed by blood test

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Gene change could stop GM bacteria surviving outside the lab

Life

Gene change could stop GM bacteria surviving outside the lab

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Is that a GM bean in my soup? Campbell's is right, we must know

Is that a GM bean in my soup? Campbell's is right, we must know

Comment

Blood gushes from virtual leg injury to help train combat medics

Technology

Blood gushes from virtual leg injury to help train combat medics

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Why banning CRISPR gene editing would be unnecessarily cautious

Life

Why banning CRISPR gene editing would be unnecessarily cautious

A global symposium on what is acceptable – and possible – with the revolutionary technology CRISPR is under way. This timely conference must learn from history

Leader

Life

We have a duty to use my gene-editing technology responsibly

Opinion

Life

Mission space food: Sugar-growing bacteria go into orbit

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Life

Engineered fillets on sale in two years as US approves GM salmon

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Earth

More than half of EU officially bans genetically modified crops

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