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Is curiosity in your DNA?

  WHAT'S ON | DONATE BECOME A MEMBER   Miss Anderson's Motor Service In 1919, young Alice Anderson founded Victoria’s first all-female motor garage. Through the garage, she provided driving lessons, mechanical...

Surprise discovery shows you may inherit more from your mum than you think

Image: leah hetteberg/unsplash What if we could inherit more than our parents’ genes? What if we could inherit the ability to turn genes on and...

Exhibition: Above the Canopy celebrates the Australian environment- Now open at Town Hall Gallery

OPEN NOW Saturday 9 July - Saturday 24 September 2022 Town Hall Gallery presents the new exhibition Above the Canopy, celebrating the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian...

Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock

Ageing is an inevitability for all living organisms, and although we still don’t know exactly why our bodies gradually grow ever more decrepit,...

Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home

Researcher Vanessa Hayes with the Ju/’hoansi people in the ancestral homeland of humanity. Chris Bennett/Evolving Picture Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The...

Population DNA testing for disease risk is coming. Here are five things to know

Screening millions of healthy people for their risk of disease can be cost-effective. But it raises ethical and regulatory concerns.  from www.shutterstock.com DNA testing to predict...