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Can a gene test tell you whether you'll live to 100?

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Can a gene test tell you whether you'll live to 100?

Genetic markers found in people who lived to be 100 years old raise the possibility of predicting longevity from a genome scan

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Gene switches sexual desires of female mice

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Gene switches sexual desires of female mice

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Solid-state systems could sequence a genome for $100

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Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate

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Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate

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Plant nurseries in clover after finding four-leaf gene

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Plant nurseries in clover after finding four-leaf gene

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If you've got great genes, it pays to be extrovert

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If you've got great genes, it pays to be extrovert

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Life

DNA tests to reveal ancestral villages

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Tutankhamen 'killed by sickle-cell disease'

Health

Tutankhamen 'killed by sickle-cell disease'

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Health

Faulty internal clock linked to diabetes

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Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

Life

Evolvability: How to cash in on the genetic lottery

When the going gets tough, the tough get evolving – and some organisms have ways to stack the odds in their favour

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Life

Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the dead

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Vital fruit and berry collection set for destruction

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The fruit fly formerly known as Drosophila

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Life

Weakened flu virus proves ideal vaccine

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