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Life

Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices

Hooking up custom-made microbes to electronics could have a host of applications in medicine and industry, such as smarter drugs and better health apps

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Scimitar-horned oryx in Chad

Life

Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Health

How to target tumours by messing with their metabolism

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Health

Simple blood test can detect genetic diseases early in pregnancy

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UK becomes first country to give go ahead to three-parent babies

Health

UK becomes first country to give go ahead to three-parent babies

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Life

End of species extinctions is in sight as we bring animals back

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Health

Gene editing starts to save lives as human trials get under way

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Health

First babies from menopausal mothers' own eggs may be born soon

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Exclusive: Mexico clinic plans 20 'three-parent' babies in 2017

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Exclusive: Mexico clinic plans 20 'three-parent' babies in 2017

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Health

Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes

Genes from other species, and cells from your relatives, live inside your body – and they hint at how we can improve ourselves

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Health

Inside the wild west world of experimental fertility clinics

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Health

UK’s first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017

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Life

Making cells ignore mutations could treat genetic diseases

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Health

Let’s take on untreatable diseases, says gene therapy pioneer

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