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Health

Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?

NHS England's national DNA database could improve the health of millions of people, but concerns over privacy could easily scupper the project's success

Insight

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Features

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Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Health

UK National Health Service should do more to exploit genomics

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children

Life

The ethics issue: Should we edit our children's genomes?

Features

Ancient human skulls

Life

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

A study of Scottish families hints that DNA mutations that damage health also impair intelligence. CRISPR gene-editing may be a way to boost brain and body

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Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Humans

Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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Life

Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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