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Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments

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Genome technology is transforming healthcare but what should we allow?

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Myopia linked to five genetic variants and going to university

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Myopia, or short-sightedness, causes distant objects to appear blurry
Nearly 200 hundred genetic variants on 14 genes have been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome

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Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to almost 200 genetic variants

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Nature, nurture, luck: Why you are more than just genes and upbringing

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Nature, nurture, luck: Why you are more than just genes and upbringing

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A fluorescence light micrograph of fibroblast cells from human skin

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Anti-ageing technique makes skin cells act 30 years younger

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Methyltransferase complexed with DNA, molecular model. The strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, green and blue) is enclosed by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT-1, green and pink). This enzyme acts to add methyl groups to the DNA, a process called DNA methylation, which can silence and regulate genes without changing the genetic sequence. DNA methylation is also being studied in relation to cancer.

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Chronic pain in Black people in US may be linked to gene expression

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Genes from bacteria may have helped plants colonise the land

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Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

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Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

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Genomic medicine is deeply biased towards white people

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Genomic medicine is deeply biased towards white people

Lack of diversity in genome studies means that treatments derived from them are leaving people of colour behind. Changing that isn’t only about justice – it could also lead to new therapies that would otherwise go undiscovered

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UK may allow gene editing of crops and livestock following Brexit

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Gene therapy injected in one eye can travel to the other eye

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Gene therapy injected in one eye can travel to the other eye

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Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

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Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

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Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men

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Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men

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