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genetics

The biotechnology firm Oxitec has released boxes throughout Brazil that contain genetically-modified male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti

Environment

Genetically modified mosquitoes cut the insect's number by 96 per cent

In a city in Brazil, male mosquitoes were released that expressed a gene that meant their female offspring, which bite and transmit infections, couldn't survive

News

Indeever Madireddy

Life

High school student is first to sequence the angelfish genome

News

Dyslexia has been linked to 42 genetic variants

Health

Dyslexia linked to 42 genetic variants in biggest study of its kind

News

Tall man and short woman

Humans

12,000 genetic variants affect height in people with European ancestry

News

Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

Health

Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

Features

Rylea-Ann was unable to walk before receiving the gene therapy

Health

Gene therapy infused into the brain eases rare condition in children

News

Nearly 200 hundred genetic variants on 14 genes have been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome

Health

Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to almost 200 genetic variants

News

Image of Locklan Samples, daughter of Kate Samples https://www.instagram.com/uncombable_locks/

Health

Scientists home in on genetic causes of uncombable hair syndrome

News

A blue jellyfish drifts in a dark ocean. Four more jellyfish swim in the background.

Life

Immortal jellyfish genes identified that may explain their long lives

News

A large, black Newfoundland dog with drool dripping from its half open mouth

Life

Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals

Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories

News

Health

Drugs that mutate viruses to kill them could make them more dangerous

News

Life

Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

News

Humans

The Genetic Age review: Is genetic engineering a costly distraction?

Culture

Life

UK polecats numbers are rising as they interbreed with ferrets

News

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