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

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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

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

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

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Required: A moral vision for gene editing

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Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

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Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

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Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

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Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Forget Trump and Clinton, I'm campaigning for the US to embrace technology with the potential to make us immortal, says White House contender Zoltan Istvan

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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

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

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

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