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genetics

Water bear

Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

Water bears, or tardigrades, can survive long periods without any water – discovering how they do it could lead to new ways to store vaccines in desiccated form

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Details of the conflict between the Hebrews and the Canaanites are sketchy

Humans

Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites

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York Gospel

Humans

DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books

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CRISPR

Health

Human embryo gene editing has taken place in US, claims report

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A box full of old photographs

Health

Lasers reactivate ‘lost’ memories in mice with Alzheimer’s

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First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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party image

Health

Feeling lonely? You're not on your own

Features

someone taking a blood test

Health

Prenatal test spots genetic anomalies linked to miscarriage

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Bella

Health

In search of a treatment for a devastating genetic disease

Regulars

Eadweard Muybridge's photographic study of a horse at full gallop

Life

Video stored in live bacterial genome using CRISPR gene editing

Cutting and pasting information into living DNA could theoretically safeguard complex records through a nuclear apocalypse

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Health

CRISPR gene editing technique is probably safe, study confirms

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Life

How the living world was changed, by the woman who changed it

Culture

Health

Nice science, but don't forget about the ethics

Leader

Health

Should cash-strapped NHS pay for unproven gene sequencing?

Analysis

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