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Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground

Health

Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground

Will pioneering work to alter genes in human germ cells or early embryos allow us to make superbabies, and is it ethical? Â鶹´«Ã½ explores the issues

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Preying alone

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Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

Life

Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

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Optic aquatic

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Sunfish and sharks get the Body Worlds treatment

Life

Sunfish and sharks get the Body Worlds treatment

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Modified <i>E. coli</i> spin fibres as tough as spider silk

Life

Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk

News

The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

Life

The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

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Would you wear yeast perfume? Microbes used to brew scent

Would you wear yeast perfume? Microbes used to brew scent

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Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk

News

Where we're headed in the search for our minds

Life

Where we're headed in the search for our minds

In two challenging neuroscience books Michael Gazzaniga, Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman show why we're struggling with the mind-brain link – for now

CultureLab

Health

I showed that nicotine is a gateway to hard drugs

Opinion

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Angle of dangle

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Earth

Suez superhighway: Stopping the tide of alien invaders

Features

Health

I've found the real reason so many children are obese

Opinion

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