Earth
Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food
The world's largest land predators have evolved genes that let them eat a diet ultra-high in fat that would give most humans a heart attack
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Life
Itsy bitsy bacterium gets a bigger genetic code
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Life
Seed saviour: I’m preserving our edible heirlooms
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Health
3D shape of genome could diagnose leukaemia type
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Environment
Baboons with pig hearts pave way for human transplants
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Stem cell revival: The 1990s are back
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Life
The bacteria that chat back and tell you how they are
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Humans
Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming
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Health
Brazil approves use of genetically modified mosquitoes
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Deaf people get gene tweak to restore natural hearing
People who have lost their hearing will be injected with a harmless virus carrying a gene that should trigger the regrowth of their ears’ sensory receptors
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Health
Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn’t
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Let me show you how to make your own glowing plant
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Environment
Are RNA fragments making gene tweaks in descendants?
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Humans
Parental guidance advised over virtual embryos
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