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Boy who had skin graft playing football

Health

Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced

Gene therapy has saved the life of a boy with a rare skin-peeling disease. The boy received grafts of sheets of genetically-altered skin grown in the lab

News

Health

FDA loosens rules on direct-to-consumer genetic tests

News

Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

Life

Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

News

CRISPR gene editing

Health

We’ve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing

News

bioinformation

Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Culture

Koltsov

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

Features

A hand hovering on a lightswitch

Health

Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder

News

Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend

Life

Horses bred to look like cartoons are part of a worrying trend

Comment

Researcher in the field measures skin colour

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

News

Cavefish

Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

The discovery that a cavefish might have lost its sight because key eye genes were switched off via epigenetics, rather than mutation, will fuel an evolutionary debate

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Health

Anti-doping agency to ban all gene editing in sport from 2018

News

Health

Buyer beware: Should genomic firms resell your data?

Leader

Life

New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

News

Health

We’re nearly ready to use CRISPR to target far more diseases

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