Life
Lazy gene favours adventurous choices
In a restaurant, do you order the dish you know you love or try a new one? A gene governing the amount of dopamine in a particular brain region may determine your answer
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Earth
Craig Venter: Programming algae to pump out oil
Opinion
Humans
Why Neanderthals were always an endangered species
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Health
Artistic tendencies linked to ‘schizophrenia gene’
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Life
What can DNA tell us? Place your bets now
Opinion
Health
IVF discounts beat cash rewards for research eggs
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Health
Liver cells could be reprogrammed as insulin factories
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Life
Good dancers make the fittest mates
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Health
Blood test could predict IVF success
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Return of the race myth?
The Human Genome Project blew apart the idea that "race" was a biologically meaningful term – but new genetic technologies threaten to revive it, warns Osagie Obasogie
Opinion
Life
Why microbes are smarter than you thought
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Health
Europeans’ sweet tooth may have been survival trait
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Health
Teenage ‘baby’ may lack master ageing gene
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US refuses prisoners right to DNA tests
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