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genetics

RNA and DNA

Life

Bacterial RNA-editing tool could disable viruses or halt disease

CRISPR gene editing can now target RNA as well as DNA, which could be a way to treat infectious diseases and cancer and track RNA as it moves around cells

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Hipster chicken beards caused by a single gene mutation

Life

Hipster chicken beards caused by a single gene mutation

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Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

Life

Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

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projection of a body with 1s and 0s

Life

Plan to build human genome from scratch could kick off this year

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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

Life

Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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An early embryo - a ball of eight cells

Life

Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing

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fitness

Health

Why you don't want your boss to help with your health

Insight

A body drawn in genetic code

Life

Why would scientists want to build human genomes from scratch?

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Two overlapping giraffes facing in opposite directions

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

RNA molecules are thought to be some of the earliest self-replicators that led to life. Now their building blocks have been made to self-assemble in a lab

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Life

Why are so many Labradors fat?

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Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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Health

Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

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Life

The story of Dolly is about us as much as cloning

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