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Life

The genetic superheroes who have mutations but not the disease

Some people show no signs of illness despite unknowingly having genes for serious conditions like cystic fibrosis. Working out why could lead to new treatments

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

Humans

Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (yellow) budding from the membrane of a host cell (red).

Health

HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

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Humans

The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

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Craig Venter

Life

Breakthrough in synthetic biology is far from 'playing God'

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eugenics

Humans

Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

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Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

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Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

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Life

Fish with rainbow skin shows how cells move when skin regrows

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A haploid cell with 23 chromosomes (left), and a diploid cell with 46 chromosomes (right).

Life

Human stem cell with half a genome could help infertile couples

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Older dads

Health

Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health

A study of a million people going back to 1670 shows that selection is still weeding out bad mutations and helping us avoid mutational meltdown

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Humans

Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history

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Space

Twin who spent a year on the ISS returns to Earth

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Life

Super-fast evolving fish splitting into two species in same lake

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Life

Glow-in-the-dark bacterial lights could illuminate shop windows

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