Humans
The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes’ true place
Inheritance is about so much more than the handing on of a genetic baton down the centuries, argues a nuanced new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
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Life
Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead
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Health
Frozen placentas could be the ticket to a long and healthy life
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Environment
Mistletoe’s cells are broken at a fundamental level
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Humans
A bacterium has been engineered to make ‘unnatural’ proteins
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Health
Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimer’s
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Health
Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced
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Health
Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy
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Environment
Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
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Health
I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it
An anonymous father says after storing the expensive cells, his son developed a condition that the blood could not treat
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Health
Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level
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Health
Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years
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Health
Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts
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Health
Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail
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