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genetics

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

Health

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to understand what the evidence on Alzheimer’s really means for him

Features

Supercentenarian María Branyas Morera, pictured with researcher Manel Esteller

Health

World’s oldest person had a young microbiome and 'exceptional genome'

News

Life

Thylacine's genome provides clues about why it went extinct

News

Life

Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics

News

Humans

70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist

Comment

Humans

An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been read for the first time

News

Humans

A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches

News

Life

Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’ – will it work?

News

Life

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves

News

Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially changing how we think of the earliest hominins

News

Society

Why claims about 'resurrecting' dire wolves are the tip of the iceberg

Comment

Life

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction

News

Humans

Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins

Culture

Life

Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help bring back the mammoth?

Analysis

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