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genetics

A stock image of a person holding a child's hand in hospital

Health

Gene-replacement therapy is helping children overcome fatal diseases

Replacing faulty genes with healthy ones has enabled several children with rare genetic disorders to have typical life experiences, such as attending school and living with their families

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Wheat fields

Environment

UK to relax law on gene-edited food in post-Brexit change from EU

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Man inside Tesco

Society

No UK supermarket is willing to say it will stock gene-edited food

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Gene edited vitamin D tomatoes

Environment

Gene-edited tomato offers new plant-based source of vitamin D

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Molecule of DNA, double helix, 3D illustration. Genetic mutation and genetic disorders

Health

A single genetic mutation made humans more susceptible to cancer

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A light micrograph of plaques in someone with lupus

Health

Discovery of a genetic cause of lupus could lead to new treatments

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Life

Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites

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2CE12PN Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

Health

Genes linked to Alzheimer’s may help calculate your risk of getting it

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Health

Genetic test for mutation that leads to antibiotic-induced deafness

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Bronze age settlement

Humans

Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work – and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D

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Life

Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

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Humans

A new reference human genome could reflect our species’ true diversity

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Life

Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation

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Environment

Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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