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human genome

Child in hospital bed

Health

Three critically ill children helped by speedy genome sequencing

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital have used rapid genome sequencing to diagnose disorders in children in intensive care, and give them better treatments

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

Life

Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Children at school

Humans

Does your kids’ DNA matter more than which school they go to?

Analysis

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

Humans

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

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brain pills

Health

The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century

Culture

A person's brain and DNA

Humans

Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence

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How 51¶¯Âþ readers predicted the Oscar winners

Humans

How 51¶¯Âþ readers predicted the Oscar winners

Features

Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

Humans

Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Humans

Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Features

crowd of people

Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

Want to know if a dictator will be deposed? Or shares will crash? Intelligence agencies and firms are realising groups of everyday people can foresee what will happen

Features

Humans

The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

Features

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Health

We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

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Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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