Life
Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently
Head lice are harmless and body lice spread disease, yet they have the same genes – the difference could all be in the way they splice them together
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Humans
Strewth – Australian genetic link to founding of the Americas
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Health
Gene therapy cures blindness by healing eyes and brain together
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Health
Mice with hereditary deafness hear again thanks to gene therapy
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Health
Gene therapy works in cystic fibrosis for the first time
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Environment
Everything’s coming up roses after scent gene is found
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Earth
Heat-tolerant genes could help corals adapt to climate change
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Life
Why ‘RNA world’ theory on origin of life may be wrong after all
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Life
Cradle of creation: Evolution shapes up new ecosystem in the lab
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Humans
DNA study backs Native American claim to Kennewick Man remains
Genome evidence may have settled the ancestry of perhaps the most contentious skeleton ever unearthed in the US
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Life
DNA is life’s blueprint? No, there’s far more to it than that
Culture
Health
First evidence of how parents’ lives could change children’s DNA
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Health
Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease
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Humans
Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?
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