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‘Gay test’ fear mustn’t derail work on sexuality’s genetic basis

Talk of using DNA to determine whether someone is gay misunderstands efforts to explain human variation, says Dean Hamer, who published the first evidence for a genetic predisposition to homosexuality

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World’s first trial of stem cell therapy in the womb

Earth

Bacterial genes that turn mercury lethal mapped across world

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Birth month affects risk of developing dementia later in life

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Digital version of piece of rat brain fires like the real thing

Environment

Elephants almost never get cancer thanks to multiple gene copies

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Flu drugs work and are needed during pandemics

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Migraines triggered by protein deep in the brain

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Why resurgence of therapy that unearths 鈥榣ost鈥� memories is risky

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NeuroTribes: How autism has been badly misunderstood

Society鈥檚 failure to embrace the idea of neurodiversity and accept people who think differently might be limiting human potential, says a new book

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We can’t let a discredited psychotherapy return to wreck lives

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Drug could kill harmful bacteria but leave benign ones untouched

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How to spot the warning signs and prevent mass shootings

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Chemistry Nobel shared for discovery of how DNA repairs itself