The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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Female California condors can reproduce without mating, joining a list that includes sharks, rays and lizards
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Women in Denmark can now take a blood test to identify genetic foetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. But it has raised ethical questions.
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Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
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Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says ‘thrilling’ study
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The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
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Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
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Sucralose breaks up DNA
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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives.
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
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Fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV
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Gattaca is still pertinent twenty-five years later
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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.
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Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
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Nobody has my condition but me - Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient.
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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In a first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Controlled indoor cultivation of black morel (Morchella sp.) all-year-round
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New cancer therapy from Yibin Kang's lab holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects
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To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
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The first baby in history to be conceived with the help of polygenic testing
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Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
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Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
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Florida’s new transgender sports ban permits schools to require "routine sports physical examination" of the students' genitals, genetic makeup, and testosterone levels
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These mutant blind rabbits walk on their front two legs, and now we know why
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Israeli scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
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The pandemic that lasted fifteen million years
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Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
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Nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering
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The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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Color blindness
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The human genome is full of viruses
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Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
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Losing the education lottery
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How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
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