Environment
Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?
The future of Homo sapiens is tantalisingly sketched out in a new book that favours reality over speculation
Culture
Environment
Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes
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Life
Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses
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Health
Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies
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Life
Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality
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Health
Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack
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Humans
Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough
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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
All visitors to Kuwait and all Kuwaitis renewing their passports will soon be required to give DNA samples, prompting lawyers to fight for genetic privacy
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Humans
The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa
News
Environment
Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene
Features
Life
World’s hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA
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Environment
Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive
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