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Your genes help determine how much sleep you need

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DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours' sleep

Studying a family that lives healthily on as little as 4.5 hours of sleep per night has led to the discovery of a gene that controls how much sleep we need

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embryo

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2019 Preview: DNA testing will lead to a decline in genetic disorders

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DNA model

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Gene editing is so easy to do that we couldn’t stop it if we wanted to

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A picture of a brain scan

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Gene therapy eases Parkinson’s symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain

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Amyloid protein in Alzheimer's disease.

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Morphing brain DNA hints at a whole new way to treat Alzheimer's

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37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

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37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

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penguins near research base

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Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

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The human liver

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A whole new type of cancer therapy helps treat liver cancer

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

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Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

Many of us carry DNA inherited from Neanderthals, but we can’t be sure how it affects us. Stem cells with Neanderthal DNA could tell us

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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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We're evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol

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Are human clones next? Your trickiest cloning questions answered

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