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Why Are Mosquitoes Attracted To Me?!

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Mosquitoes are attracted to me and it's likely due to my genes.
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How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science - The Size of Life 2

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Life on this planet is based on cells. Cells do vary in size. But they are pretty similar in their dimensions across all species. A blue whale doesn't have bigger cells than a hummingbird, just a lot more of them.
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How Close Are We to Curing HIV/AIDS?

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Current drug therapies mean it's possible to live a normal life span with HIV, but that's expensive and not a long term solution. What we really need is an HIV vaccine and a cure. So, how close are we?
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Does It Matter Which Color Egg You Buy? (Why Are They Different?)

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Ever wondered why some eggs are different colors? There's a lot more science behind it than you might think.
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Your Face Could Be Recreated From DNA: Should You Worry?

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Can we predict what a person's face looks like based solely on a sample of their DNA? A new study says yes, but geneticists aren't so sure.
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Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness

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In the event of a nuclear fallout, every piece of digital and written information could all be lost. Luckily, there is a way that all of human history could be recorded and safely stored beyond the civilization's end. And the key ingredient is inside all of us: our DNA. Leo Bear-McGuinness explains.
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DNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!

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Biology textbooks are full of drawings of DNA, but none of those show what DNA actually looks like. Sure, they're good models for understanding how DNA works, but inside of real cells, it's a whole lot more interesting. Learn why we can't look directly at DNA, and find out how DNA is actually packed inside cells.
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Ancient Humans & Neanderthals Had Sex, Here's How It Changed Us Forever

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We've known for a while that ancient humans got busy with Neanderthals, but how exactly did that Neanderthal DNA affect modern humans?
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Late sleeper? Blame your genes.

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If you're not a morning person, science says you probably never will be.
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Some People Are Programmed to Sleep Better Than Others

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Do you have a hard time getting a good night's sleep? According to scientists, it's all in your genes.
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Destroying Cancer Using Your Own Genetically Modified Cells

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Scientists are taking cancer patients' immune cells and engineering them to fight cancer. How does it work?
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Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

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Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?
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We Could Back Up The Entire Internet On A Gram Of DNA

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Nature's code for life is stored in DNA, but what if we could code anything we wanted into DNA? Scientists are figuring out how.
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We Got Our DNA Tested, Here's How It Actually Works

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Trace and Amy get their DNA test results, and we talk to an expert about how scientists actually get genetic information out of DNA.
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Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever

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Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.
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What Is Life? Is Death Real?

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So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things.
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Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Claudio L. Guerra

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The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievements in human history.
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How the choices you make can affect your genes

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Here's a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA ... so how can they turn out so different - even in traits that have a significant genetic component?
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We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely

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Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases.
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Why do babies' eyes change color?

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A weekly show where we endeavor to answer one of your big questions. This week, doxysrkx asks, "Why are babies born with blue eyes?"
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Genetics

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7 MYTHS You Still Believe About Genetics