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‘Black and white twins’: How genetics, epigenetics explain non-identical identical twins

Colin Moran | 
[Identical twins Amelia and Jasmine aren't] identical...One child has dark skin, black hair and brown eyes while the other has ...
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Talking Biotech: 1000 Days’ Lucy Martinez-Sullivan on using science to tackle poor nutrition in pregnant moms, infants

Lucy Martinez-Sullivan | 
1000 Days' Lucy Martinez-Sullivan: Science, social awareness has reshaped nutrition for pregnant women, young children ...
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White supremacists using DNA tests to prove their ‘whiteness’

Ethan Chiel | 
[W]hite supremacists of various stripes who congregate on parts of Reddit, 4chan, and elsewhere are using the genetic testing service ...
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Using CRISPR to drive genes through a population likely to lead to ‘resistance’ in organisms

Veronique Greenwood | 
We might finally be able to beat evolution at its own game. Using the gene editing tool CRISPR...biologists can arrange ...
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‘Hairpin science’: Unfolding mystery of the soupy origins of life on earth

The long-sought ingredient that may have helped gene-like strands to copy themselves in puddles for the first time ever, billions ...
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Growing hybrid human-chimp brains to understand intellectual differences and disease

Zaria Gorvett | 
In her own small corner of this research utopia at the human brain laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Madeleine ...
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No, you did not inherit your intelligence from your mother’s genes

Emily Willingham | 
The premise of [a post from Second Nexus is] that science has traced “intelligence genes” to the X chromosome and ...
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Has human life span reached its limit?

Linda Geddes | 
Human life expectancy has steadily increased since the nineteenth century. Reports of supercentenarians...have prompted some to suggest that there is ...

Chimps may possess ‘theory of mind,’ are capable of understanding minds of human

A chimpanzee, a scientist with a stick and a researcher in a King Kong suit may sound like the setup ...
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Video: Should we modify our genomes to survive in space?

Lisa Nip | 
With the talk of space exploration and Mars colonization raising hopes of humans becoming an interplanetary species, the issue of ...

Americans unearth surprises about immigrant ancestors using DNA, genealogy tests

Cameron McWhirter | 
Advances in the size and scope of vast digital databases, as well as the low cost of DNA testing, have ...
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Native Americans fear potential exploitation of their DNA

Arvind Suresh | 
To many tribal people, having a scientist come in from the outside looking to use their DNA to tell them ...

DNA tests helping descendants of slavery confront history of injustice against blacks

Kamala Kelkar | 
In 2002, descendants of African slaves filed a historic class-action lawsuit...demanding reparations from...companies that had benefited from their predecessors. Reparations ...

Mining Zika for genetic data may reveal how virus evolves, spreads and how it can be stopped

Emma Bryce | 
Pardis Sabeti is a computational geneticist who works at the Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, where she pinpoints the genetic ...

Genetic analysis reveals first settlers of remote Oceania islands Vanuatu and Tonga were Asian

Ariel Bogle | 
A new study of ancient DNA could upend our understanding of the seafaring people who travelled vast distances to make ...

Genes linked to ‘human seeking behavior’ in dogs tied to bipolar disorder, autism in man

Amy Middleton | 
They like to be close to us, make eye contact and communicate with us – unusual behaviour between two different ...

For black Americans, DNA ancestry tests contain troubling reminder of treatment of slaves

Cara DeFabio | 
There’s now hundreds of ancestry reveal videos on YouTube and Facebook, featuring people looking for answers about the past in ...
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Genetics may explain tendency towards violence in our evolutionary history

Nicola Davis | 
Humans are predisposed to murder each other, new research suggests, although it remains unclear if it’s down to genetics or ...
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Hillary Clinton: Evolutionary “grandma hypothesis” meets the grandma candidate

Meredith Knight | 
Grandmothers played an important role in the evolution of human social relationships and as generational knowledge sinks. Now women of ...
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Why autism genes persist in human gene pool

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich | 
It has been suspected for some time that numerous defective genes are responsible for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but now, ...
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Genetic therapies won’t solve depression anytime soon

Ben Locwin | 
Can a better understanding of the genetics of depression lead us to safer, more effective treatments for the disease? ...
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DNA study reveals Aboriginal Australians as oldest civilization on Earth

Emiko Jozuka | 
A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back ...

Human evolution: How will our species change over next 100,000 years?

Samantha Olson | 
Since we became Homo sapiens, has evolution changed us in any way? Actually, yes. ... [An] example is the gene for ...
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Human tendency for obesity not result of evolutionary adaption to survive famine

Scientists have found that nearly all common obesity-related genes didn't actually evolve from an evolutionary advantage from our ancestors, who ...

How one rare disease led to painting of blue people

Ricki Lewis | 
Most stories about the blue people of Kentucky include an eerie, compelling drawing of a family, with the stark faces ...
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Human ancestors may have moved out of Africa in one single migration

Carl Zimmer | 
Modern humans evolved somewhere in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the ...
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Blind use visual cortex region of brain to solve math problems

Colin Barras | 
While a leading theory suggests our visual experiences are linked to our understanding of numbers, a study of people who ...
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