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genetics

bioinformation

Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Ever more bioinformation is readily available through tracking devices and databases – but does it risk getting up too close and personal, asks a new book

Culture

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Health

Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder

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Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend

Life

Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend

Comment

Researcher in the field measures skin colour

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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Cavefish

Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Anti-doping agency to ban all gene editing in sport from 2018

Health

Anti-doping agency to ban all gene editing in sport from 2018

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genetics kit

Health

Buyer beware: Should genomic firms resell your data?

Leader

White-footed mouse

Life

New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

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Transmission electron microscopy of Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a DNA virus with a long incubation period, that is transmitted through bodily fluids and affects the liver.

Health

We’re nearly ready to use CRISPR to target far more diseases

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New Zealand’s iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

Life

New Zealand’s iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

Three Okarito brown kiwis living wild in New Zealand are completely blind but in good physical condition, suggesting the species is evolving to lose its sight

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Technology

Why has a UK team genetically edited human embryos?

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Earth

Secrets of butterfly wing patterns revealed by gene hacking

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Life

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

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Life

Thousands of new lifeforms discovered that redraw tree of life

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