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A genetic test in a laboratory

Health

Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants

Hundreds of genetic variants may influence your risk of becoming severely ill with covid-19, a discovery that could lead to more targeted treatments or even tests that assess a person's likelihood of complications

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A stock image of chromosomes

Health

Genetic errors cause most miscarriages, confirms largest study yet

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dog and man

Life

Dogs have two gene mutations that explain why they are friendly

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family

Humans

New test shows which bits of your DNA are from which biological parent

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A couple

Health

Taller people may have a higher risk of nerve, skin and heart diseases

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Posidonia australis

Life

Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

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A stock image of a person holding a child's hand in hospital

Health

Gene-replacement therapy is helping children overcome fatal diseases

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Wheat fields

Environment

UK to relax law on gene-edited food in post-Brexit change from EU

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Man inside Tesco

Society

No UK supermarket is willing to say it will stock gene-edited food

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Gene edited vitamin D tomatoes

Environment

Gene-edited tomato offers new plant-based source of vitamin D

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs used CRISPR technology to make a tiny edit in a gene to stop tomato plants producing an enzyme that converts a vitamin D precursor into cholesterol

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Health

A single genetic mutation made humans more susceptible to cancer

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Health

Discovery of a genetic cause of lupus could lead to new treatments

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Life

Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites

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Health

Genes linked to Alzheimer’s may help calculate your risk of getting it

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