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Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided ...

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A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 18 times more energy than ...

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An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...