Humans
Kuwait’s mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy
The Gulf state will soon be the first nation to force all residents and visitors to hand over DNA, risking its reputation and more, warns geneticist Olaf Rieß
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Life
Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory
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Humans
“Intersex” athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio
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Life
Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses
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Life
Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth
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Health
Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives
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Health
First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains
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Health
Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer
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Health
Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer
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Humans
Tolerance of smoke may have given us an edge over Neanderthals
Modern humans carry a mutation that allows us to deal with health effects of smoke inhalation – something our Neanderthal relatives seem to have lacked
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Environment
Inbreeding has destroyed the English bulldog’s genetic diversity
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Earth
Red wolf may lose endangered status because it’s just a hybrid
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Health
We’re on the cusp of a gene editing revolution, are we ready?
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Health
CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA
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