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Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations

Older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children because of the faster growth of mutant cells in the testes with age

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

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

Features

Supercentenarian María Branyas Morera, pictured with researcher Manel Esteller

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

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Life

Thylacine's genome provides clues about why it went extinct

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Life

Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics

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Humans

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

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Humans

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

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Humans

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

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Life

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

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

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolves

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Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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Society

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

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Life

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

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Humans

Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins

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