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genetics

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Humans

Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough

51¶¯Âþs have cracked the biggest obstacle to using "antisense" therapies that have the potential to treat several disorders including Huntington's and Alzheimer's

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Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food

Life

Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food

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Breast cancer cell

Health

Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer

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Kuwait City skyline

Humans

Kuwait lawyers fight world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law

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Life

Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene

Features

People of the world

Humans

The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa

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water bear

Life

World's hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA

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Three snub-nosed monkeys on branch in misty forest

Life

Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive

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Security searches at a Kuwaiti mosque, September 2016

Humans

Kuwait's mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy

Comment

evolution artwork

Life

Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory

Mendel and Darwin lived at the same time but never met - yet their ideas about of the natural world would unite into a single revolutionary discovery Ìý

Features

Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

Comment

Life

Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses

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Life

Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth

Features

Life

Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

Analysis

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