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Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20%

Earth

Trials planned for GM superwheat that boosts harvest by 20%

Biologists are applying to carry out UK field trials of a genetically modified wheat that has performed stunningly well in greenhouse trials

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Health

Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

Life

Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

Culture

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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A woman with large rolls of fat

Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

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Shelves and shelves of maturing cheese

Life

Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality

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Life

Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack

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Humans

Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough

Scientists have cracked the biggest obstacle to using "antisense" therapies that have the potential to treat several disorders including Huntington's and Alzheimer's

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Life

Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food

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Health

Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer

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Humans

Kuwait lawyers fight world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law

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Life

Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene

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