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2,460 results for: mutations

  1. Health & Medicine

    Targeted Therapies

    Tailoring prescriptions based on a person's genes may help reduce side effects and allow the development of more personalized medicine.

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  2. Evolutionary Upstarts

    Theories of the evolution of the human mind are evolving, with some researchers now presenting alternatives to the dominant notion that genetic competition for survival during the Stone Age yielded brains stocked with a bevy of instincts for specific types of thinking.

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  3. Get Rid of the Bodies

    Scientists are learning how organisms safely clear out cell corpses.

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  4. Sizing Up the Brain

    Genetic mutations that produce small brains provide insight into the formation and evolution of the human brain.

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  5. Science News of the Year 2002

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2002.

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  6. Science News of the Year 2002

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2002.

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  7. Genghis Khan’s Legacy?

    Genghis Kahn's military success 800 years ago may have spread a particular form of the Y chromosome, one he may have himself carried.

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  8. Mining the Mouse

    Recent analyses of the mouse genome illuminate human health and evolution.

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  9. Tech

    Digital Cells

    Researchers are gearing up to create cells with computer programs hardwired into the DNA.

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  10. Animals

    Life Without Sex

    The search is on for creatures that have evolved for eons without sex.

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  11. Anthropology

    The Ultimate Colonists

    Human ancestors managed to adjust to life in a variety of ecosystems during the Stone Age, indicating that their social lives were more complex than they've often been given credit for.

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  12. Life

    All the World’s a Phage

    There are an amazing number of bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—in the world.

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