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genetics

GM mosquito

Life

GM mosquitoes approved for field trial release in Florida

State officials have approved a controversial plan to fight diseases such as Zika and dengue with genetically engineered insects

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Chinese and US flags

Technology

Are the US and China heading for a gene-editing ‘space race’?

Analysis

The world in 2076: Human-made life forms walk the earth

Life

The world in 2076: Human-made life forms walk the earth

Features

Using egg leftovers could double the number collected in IVF

Health

Using egg leftovers could double the number collected in IVF

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Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups

Humans

Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups

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Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20%

Earth

Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20%

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Full ashtray

Health

Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

Life

Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

Culture

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Humans are not the only great apes to have had an ancient fling with related species. New evidence shows that chimps carry genes from bonobos

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Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

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Life

Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality

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Life

Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack

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