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Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

Removing only a small segment of a gene in the brain cells of mice reduced the formation of plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease by 44 per cent

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Genetic variants may influence the likelihood we will smoke or drink alcohol

Health

Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and alcohol use

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Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest

Life

DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

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Maize field

Life

'Unselfish' genes that make plants cooperate could boost crop yields

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The Amami spiny rat

Life

A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future

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The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

Humans

The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

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Modern humans that had not long left Africa may have evolved an X chromosome that carried

Humans

Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus

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Plague of mice

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Gene drive could be used to wipe out invasive mice on islands

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The biotechnology firm Oxitec has released boxes throughout Brazil that contain genetically-modified male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti

Environment

Genetically modified mosquitoes cut the insect's number by 96 per cent

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Indeever Madireddy

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High school student is first to sequence the angelfish genome

17-year-old Indeever Madireddy sequenced the genome of his pet angelfish after it died – the first time this species has been sequenced

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Health

Dyslexia linked to 42 genetic variants in biggest study of its kind

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Humans

12,000 genetic variants affect height in people with European ancestry

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Gene therapy infused into the brain eases rare condition in children

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