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DNA storage: The code that could save civilisation
Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick Goldman can remember exactly how they came up with the idea of storing all...
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‘Female’ Chromosome May Play Unexpected Role in Male Biology
Behind every great man, the saying goes, there’s a great woman. And behind every sperm, there may be an...
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What is epigenetics?
As plenty of frustrated middle-aged readers will know, exercise does not always lead to a drop in waist size....
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Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’
What is biological immortality? To be fair, it’s not the promise of a paradisiacal garden. Neither is it the...
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Shakespeare, Thou Art Stored in DNA
The stuff we’re made of may be the means by which we store information that we want kept around...
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Learning to Love Grains, Potatoes Was Key to Evolution of Dogs
You know that dog biscuit shaped like a bone but made mostly of wheat? The fact that your dog...
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DNA Shows Ancient Humans Related to Asians and Native Americans
Researchers have been able to trace a line between some of the earliest modern humans to settle in China...
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Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back From the Dead?
In a SPIEGEL interview, synthetic biology expert George Church of Harvard University explains how DNA will become the building...
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Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA in Human Cells
While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting...
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Personal Genomes Could Soon Be Public Information
Anyone who’s generously given their DNA to genomic research under the assumption that their personal biological code would be...