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How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle

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How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle

Your penchant for doughnuts or your gym addiction could have effects way beyond your waistline. They could have cascading effects on your unborn children

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Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe

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Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe

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Obese men found to make sperm with thousands of modified genes

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Obese men found to make sperm with thousands of modified genes

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First trial of gene-editing treatment for haemophilia

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First trial of gene-editing treatment for haemophilia

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Editing life: A guide to the genetic revolution on our doorstep

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Should we be worried that genes can be edited so easily?

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Should we be worried that genes can be edited so easily?

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Is a new dawn of widespread gene therapy on the horizon?

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Is a new dawn of widespread gene therapy on the horizon?

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Have we found the key to eradicating viruses like HIV or herpes?

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Will CRISPR gene-editing technology lead to designer babies?

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Why banning CRISPR gene editing would be unnecessarily cautious

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Why banning CRISPR gene editing would be unnecessarily cautious

A global symposium on what is acceptable – and possible – with the revolutionary technology CRISPR is under way. This timely conference must learn from history

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Health

Having trouble giving up smoking? Blame your genes

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We have a duty to use my gene-editing technology responsibly

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Alzheimer’s introduced to Colombian town by Spanish conquistador

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Mystery microbes in our gut could be a whole new form of life

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