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Environment

UK may allow gene editing of crops and livestock following Brexit

The UK government is exploring the use of gene editing to modify food crops because the technique can improve the nutrition of crops through tiny DNA changes

Analysis

Gene therapy injected in one eye can travel to the other eye

Health

Gene therapy injected in one eye can travel to the other eye

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Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

Health

Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

Features

Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men

Humans

Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men

Features

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Nature versus nurture

Eugenics

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Eugenics

Epigenetics

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Epigenetics

A safety switch may pave the way towards controlled use of gene drives to control mosquitoes

Health

CRISPR safety switch can make cells self-destruct if they go rogue

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Human cloning

Humans

Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?

Insight

Rudolph superpowers

Life

Reindeer's real superpowers could help us beat depression and cancer

So what if Rudolph can’t really fly? He and the herd have some truly amazing evolutionary adaptations that could inspire new treatments for human diseases

Features

Video

The genetic revolution: Can we predict school performance from DNA?

Video

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How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

Video

Humans

Why it’s time to call time on the ‘nature vs nurture’ debate

Features

Video

Can we really choose our own fate, or is free will an illusion?

Video

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