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Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

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Dog-sized dinosaur that ran around feet of giants discovered

The dinosaur was mislabelled and misunderstood - but scientists now realise how special it is.

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NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk

Scheme is part of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England aimed at easing pressure on services.

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Population Genetics in the Neotropics, Edited by Marcos Vinícius Bohrer Monteiro Siqueira, Enéas Ricardo Konzen, Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior, from Springer, (Jun 21).

Evolution Journal of the Linnean Society. Publish with us. Funding support for open access. Call for papers - Evolution on Islands. (Jun 16).

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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Jun 7).

Hierarchical Evolutionary-Development Theory: Towards a New Theory of Evolution, by Carlos Ochoa, from Springer Nature. (May 31).

Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transfrom our Lives, Work, and World, by Jamie Metzl, from Timer Press. (May 24).

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Jun 26 17:03Newly developed structure-based methods do not outperform standard sequence-based methods for large-scale phylogenomics by Giacomo Mutti and others (MBE)
Jun 26 17:03Comparative analysis of mammalian adaptive immune loci revealed spectacular divergence and common genetic patterns by Mariia Pospelova and others (MBE)
Jun 26 17:03Fitness effect of the isoniazid resistance mutation S315T of the catalase-peroxidase enzyme KatG ofMycobacterium tuberculosis by Ugo Bastolla and others (GBE)
Jun 25 14:03Cell compartment is a predictor of protein rate of evolution, but not in the manner expected: evidence against the extended complexity hypothesis by Juan Rivas-Santisteban and others (GBE)
Jun 25 12:00The importance of small-island populations for the long-term survival of endangered large-bodied insular mammals - Sabhrina Gita , et al. (PNAS)
Jun 25 07:41Sex-biased Migration and Demographic History of the Big European Firefly Lampyris noctiluca by Ana Catalán and others (MBE)
Jun 24 20:03HarbouringStarships: The accumulation of large Horizontal Gene Transfers in Domesticated and Pathogenic Fungi by Samuel O=92Donnell and others (GBE)

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