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genetics

An early embryo - a ball of eight cells

Life

Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing

Engineered cells can use gene editing to monitor your health - a potentially revolutionary technique that could allow us to spy on infections and cancer

News

fitness

Health

Why you don't want your boss to help with your health

Insight

A body drawn in genetic code

Life

Why would scientists want to build human genomes from scratch?

News

Two overlapping giraffes facing in opposite directions

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes

News

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

News

Fat labrador sleeping

Life

Why are so many Labradors fat?

News

Three skulls, black background

Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

News

Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

Health

Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

News

Dolly sheep

Life

The story of Dolly is about us as much as cloning

Leader

A pygmy bushtit

Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

The pygmy bushtit was thought to be the only surviving species of its genus. Now genetics is showing that it’s not so different from its larger cousins

News

Health

Judge gene-edited crops by what they do, not how they are made

Analysis

Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Features

Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

Features

Humans

38 genes influence when you lose your virginity. But so what?

News

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