Humans
Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart
Two 鈥渢hinking鈥� regions of human brains are much richer in a neurotransmitter called dopamine than the equivalent brain regions in apes and monkeys
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Health
Amish gene can make them live 10 years longer and avoid diabetes
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Humans
Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can’t stop it
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Health
FDA loosens rules on direct-to-consumer genetic tests
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Health
Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced
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Life
Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day
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Health
We鈥檝e evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing
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Life
The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia’s genetics revolution
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Health
Too much information? The data-driven future of health
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Health
Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder
OCD has been linked to genes active in a brain circuit involved in learning and decisions. The finding may help explain why the condition can run in families
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Environment
Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend
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Humans
Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years
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Environment
Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process
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Health
Anti-doping agency to ban all gene editing in sport from 2018
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