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...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process...no...more

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Dare to be an optimist.

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Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES.Eac...more

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TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to ...more

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Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not ...more