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The world in 2076: Human-made life forms walk the earth

Life

The world in 2076: Human-made life forms walk the earth

Synthetic life is well within our capabilities – but creating a free-living, independently evolving life form also comes with huge risks

Features

Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups

Humans

Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups

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Life

Required: A moral vision for gene editing

Culture

Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

Life

Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

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Life

You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human

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Health

Command and cure: We don't need to edit genomes to control them

Features

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Life

Craig Venter's plans to scour 2 million genomes for drug targets

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Craig Venter

Life

Breakthrough in synthetic biology is far from 'playing God'

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Life

Chimp genome: Lessons from our closest cousin

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Life

Silencing the pests

Lorne Genome Conference, Victoria, Australia, 16 to 20 February Gene silencing could stop transgenic animals spreading, while elsewhere antisense RNA runs the show. Rachel Nowak reports

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Life

Is there an antigene for every gene?

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Life

Of mice and men

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