Humans
The father of all men is 340,000 years old
We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years 鈥� but one African American man has broken the mould
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Leicester’s winter made glorious by Richard III
Opinion
Life
DNA privacy: don’t flatter yourself
Opinion
Health
Quadruple helix DNA discovered in human cells
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Life
Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch
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Quadruple DNA helix discovered in human cells
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Environment
Social antics in ants inherited like sex chromosomes
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Epigenetics: Discovery
Features
Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon
Features
Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects
Faulty epigenetics may play a part in some congenital disorders and cancers. But it's not clear whether epigenetic susceptibility to disease can be inherited
Features
Epigenetics: What’s left to find out
Features
Life
2012 review: The year in life science
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Environment
Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?
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Life
DNA imaged with electron microscope for the first time
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