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Romanesco cauliflower

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Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers

The Romanesco cauliflower, one of the strangest looking vegetables because of its fractal florets, owes its unique shape to the fact that it forms from failed flowers

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We need to overhaul the language of genetics to root out racism

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We need to overhaul the language of genetics to root out racism

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Richard Lewontin

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Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92

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illustration of plasmids

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Selfish genes fight each other with DNA-destroying CRISPR systems

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Goats were first domesticated in western Iran 10,000 years ago

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Goats were first domesticated in western Iran 10,000 years ago

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Alice Roberts: Archaeogenetics will help us solve mysteries of past

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Alice Roberts: Archaeogenetics will help us solve mysteries of past

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Depression and inflammation appear to be linked – but it's unclear why

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Depression and inflammation appear to be linked – but it's unclear why

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Old tom cats have more mutations in their sperm like older human males

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Henrietta Lacks

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Henrietta Lacks

African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line – the first immortalised human cell line

Life

Some rabbits walk on their front feet with their back legs in the air

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Life

Plant gene has naturally crossed into insects – and helps them feed

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Microbe somehow survives without key proteins for replicating its DNA

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Life

Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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