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DNA dirty tricks loom in future elections

Take a covert saliva sample, run a whole-genome scan and a candidate's genetic quirks could come under unfair and misleading scrutiny

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Recipes for life: How genes evolve

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Recipes for life: How genes evolve

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Ancestral genes are not black or white

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Frozen hair gives up first mammoth genome

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Frozen hair gives up first mammoth genome

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HIV 'cure' won't save sick millions

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Personalised cancer treatment on the way

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Personalised cancer treatment on the way

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Chinese and Nigerian men join elite genome club

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Gene hunt finds cancer culprits

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Chicken genome plucked bare by inbreeding

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Chicken genome plucked bare by inbreeding

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Male-killing bacteria provide a surprise benefit

The Wolbachia bacterium controls the reproduction of its insect hosts by killing males but confers some protection against viruses

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Famine leaves its mark on fetal DNA

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Male-to-female transsexualism gene found

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First volunteers release their genes to the public

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'Jumping gene' leapt into ancient mammals' DNA

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