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This gene may help worms live longer, but not healthier
Antiaging therapies may have trade-offs, research on worms suggests.
By Tina Hesman Saey | 5:00am, July 17, 2019
beetles
News | Genetics
Ground beetle genitals have the genetic ability to get strange. They don’t
By Susan Milius | 8:00am, July 08, 2019
Philistine child
News in Brief | Genetics
Ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Philistines
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, July 03, 2019
bottles of vitamins
News | Genetics
Antioxidants may encourage the spread of lung cancer rather than prevent it
By Nicoletta Lanese | 11:02am, June 27, 2019
News | Genetics
DNA reveals a European Neandertal lineage that lasted 80,000 years
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, June 26, 2019
beluga, hybrid and narwhal skulls
News | Genetics
DNA confirms a weird Greenland whale was a narwhal-beluga hybrid
By Tina Hesman Saey | 9:00am, June 20, 2019
DNA illustration
News | Genetics
Genealogy companies could struggle to keep clients’ data from police
By Tina Hesman Saey | 12:00pm, June 10, 2019
Russian digging site
News in Brief | Genetics
DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans
By Bruce Bower | 12:00pm, June 07, 2019
gene mutations
News in Brief | Genetics
Almost all healthy people harbor patches of mutated cells
By Tina Hesman Saey | 2:00pm, June 06, 2019
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News in Brief | Genetics
Africa’s first herders spread pastoralism by mating with foragers
By Bruce Bower | 2:00pm, May 30, 2019
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