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Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

The future of Homo sapiens is tantalisingly sketched out in a new book that favours reality over speculation

Culture

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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A woman with large rolls of fat

Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

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Shelves and shelves of maturing cheese

Life

Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality

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Black widow spider

Life

Virus steals black widow poison gene to help it attack

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MRI scan

Humans

Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough

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Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food

Life

Monsanto cuts deal to use CRISPR to engineer food

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Breast cancer cell

Health

Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer

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Kuwait City skyline

Humans

Kuwait lawyers fight world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law

All visitors to Kuwait and all Kuwaitis renewing their passports will soon be required to give DNA samples, prompting lawyers to fight for genetic privacy

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Life

Evolution evolves: Beyond the selfish gene

Features

Humans

The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa

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Life

World's hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA

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Life

Snub-nosed monkeys are so inbred they may struggle to survive

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