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18/11/2023 - 15:44
Some babies are sunny and agreeable, some sober, some without any predictable sleeping and eating patterns, some incessantly cranky, and...
20/06/2021 - 14:02
Culture that surrounds the human race is now helping it to evolve more quickly as a species than changes to our genetics, a new study...
08/02/2020 - 13:39
Well, one of the things that strikes teachers most when they’re in the classroom, how different the children are, how differently they...
09/11/2018 - 15:46
And it’s a disagreement that has been made yet more fraught by the political concerns that often underlie it. Traditionally, those on the...
25/03/2018 - 12:17
Classical genetics draws a fundamental distinction between the “genotype” (that is, the set of genes that an individual carries and can...
20/12/2015 - 16:10
Previous work indicated that centenarians have health and diet habits similar to the average person, suggesting that factors in their...
15/10/2015 - 14:53
That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms. Microbes in your gut...
06/10/2015 - 13:50
Commensurate with their power to change biology as we know it, the new technologies are driving renewed ethical debates. Uneasiness is...
27/08/2015 - 14:50
That code was unraveled by the discovery that adhesion proteins — the glue that keeps cells together — interact with the microprocessor, a...
03/03/2015 - 13:02
Sensory experiences are intensely personal and hard to convey to other people. What tastes amazing to one person may be nothing special to...
21/01/2015 - 19:21
On one hand, aren't there obvious differences between groups of people? One analogy is color. All colors are on the same continuum, as are...
07/09/2014 - 13:28
Rare mutations One gene – apolipoprotein B – had rare mutations in all three long-lived families that were less common in the 800 controls...

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