Artworks highlight legal debate over ‘abandoned’ DNA
An art project reconstructs faces based on DNA picked up from the streets – can we legally keep our discarded genetics away from prying eyes?
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Cheetahs win races on acceleration but not speed
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Health
New type of stem cell helps your fingers regenerate
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Flamingo-like pterosaur used gravel for digestion
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Mind-reading monkey brains look similar to ours
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Earth
Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops
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Life
Ötzi the iceman’s cells show battle brain damage
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Earth
Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops
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Earth
Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover
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UK medical research must not be a victim of austerity
Proposals to save money by shifting responsibility for the UK's key medical research body are deeply worrying, says a leader of research charities
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Earth
Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far?
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Humans
A biological basis for free will
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Life
Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen
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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia
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