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Why our genetic code should remain off-limits to life insurers
As DNA testing becomes routine, will life insurance companies start using our genetic code to inform their decisions, asks Jenny Kleeman
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Genetics may protect against disease linked to eating human brains
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Plant-killing genetic technology could wipe out superweeds
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Genomes of modern Indian people include wide range of Neanderthal DNA
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Earliest known sex chromosomes evolved in octopuses
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Does 23andMe’s decline show genetic-based medicine has been overhyped?
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We now know what makes oranges taste of oranges
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Guinness yeasts are genetically unique among Irish beers
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Multiple sclerosis genes may have arisen to ward off animal infections
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Genome analysis reveals genetic diversity of Indigenous Australians
Before colonisation, Australia was made up of at least 200 distinct nations. Now a genome analysis has revealed that modern Indigenous Australians retain high levels of genetic diversity, far more than people of European or Asian ancestry
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Having children earlier in life is genetically linked to dying younger
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Rare gene variants can change your height by up to 7 centimetres
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Cannabis addiction may be partly down to genetics
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Yeast has half its DNA rewritten in quest for synthetic complex cells
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