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Will creating monkeys with autism-like symptoms be any use?

Life

Will creating monkeys with autism-like symptoms be any use?

For the first time, non-human primates – macaques - have been genetically modified to display autism-like behaviour

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How giant viruses could rewrite the story of life on Earth

Life

How giant viruses could rewrite the story of life on Earth

Features

Shape-shifting worm creates five different versions of itself

Life

Shape-shifting worm creates five different versions of itself

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<em>The Society of Genes</em>: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

Life

The Society of Genes: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

CultureLab

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Your gut's trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it

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UK researchers get go ahead for gene-editing human embryos

Health

UK researchers get go ahead for gene-editing human embryos

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Your gut's trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it

Life

Your gut's trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it

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Strangers within: Meet the other humans who live in your body

Life

Strangers within: Meet the other humans who live in your body

Features

Guinea pigs beat climate change by tweaking their own DNA

Earth

Guinea pigs beat climate change by tweaking their own DNA

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Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria

Life

Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria

Almost every known antibiotic came from 1 per cent of bacteria. Now we are learning how to grow the unknown microbes, and who knows what riches we'll discover

Features

Life

Four genes discovered that will help you live beyond 100

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Life

CRISPR will make 2016 the year of gene-edited organisms

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Health

One man's race to edit muscular dystrophy gene for friend's son

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Health

Sisters of people with autism may help us understand condition

Opinion

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