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Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Centre have successfully converted a naturally occurring gut bacteria found in humans into the world's smallest data recorder... READ MORE›
Joseph Aquilina, a consultant obstetrician at Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the five units that tried reflex DNA screening, said it was transformational ... READ MORE›
Until this study, nobody had cracked the durian genome, said Professor Teh... READ MORE›
While many genetic disorders are caused by changes in single genes, there are others that are due to changes to chromosomes... READ MORE›
When the couple approached Zhang for help, he decided to try the mitochondrial transfer procedure... READ MORE›
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The procedure is aimed at helping parents at risk of passing mitochondrial disease onto their children... READ MORE›
First, researchers aimed to understand how the numerous and diverse dog breeds relate to each other... READ MORE›
Some groups opposed to the procedure, including Human Genetics Alert, had likened it to genetic modification... READ MORE›
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Statistics have shown that writers are 10 times more like to be bipolar than the general population and poets 40 times... READ MORE›
In a groundbreaking step, researchers have safely repaired a disease-causing gene in human embryos, targeting a heart defect best known for killing young athletes... READ MORE›
It has continued to be among the versions of the virus propagating in Guinea and later in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
The resulting egg -- with nuclear DNA from the mother and mitochondrial DNA from a donor... READ MORE›
The resulting embryo would have the nucleus DNA from its parents but the mitochondrial DNA from the donor... READ MORE›
Some groups opposed to the procedure, including Human Genetics Alert, had likened it to genetic modification... READ MORE›
Arctic apples would first be available in late 2016 in small quantities but not widely distributed for some years, Carter said... READ MORE›
Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at King's College London, said This is great news and a huge deal... READ MORE›
While Sadovnick and her co-authors are confidant that this gene mutation caused MS in these families, other researchers caution it's too early to make this claim... READ MORE›
The ancestor's DNA showed similarities with DNA from other Indigenous Australians, types that are only found in Aboriginal people and not found anywhere else, he says... READ MORE›
They found that the chances of a couple having a baby declined after the woman reached the age of 30 and decreased with increasing duration of infertility... READ MORE›
World's First Semisynthetic Organism Created Scientists Expand Life's Genetic Code To Include Two Artificial DNA Bases... READ MORE›
After taking DNA samples from the parents, doctors were able to compare gene sequences and identify which genetic codes were defective... READ MORE›
In infectious disease, researchers are also realizing the potential of genomic data sharing, particularly during fast-moving epidemics like Ebola or Zika... READ MORE›
A genetic mutation that causes skull abnormality has been linked to intersex conditions... READ MORE›
Some boys turn homosexual during childhood because of genetic changes triggered by their environment scientists have suggested in findings that are likely to prove highly controversial... READ MORE›
Based on that research, Harvard geneticist Steven McCarroll analysed data from some 29,000 schizophrenia cases, 36,000 controls and 700 post-mortem brains... READ MORE›
Researchers in Oregon are the first in the United States to use gene-editing technology on human embryos, according to a report in the MIT Technology Review... READ MORE›
World's First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Created, Chinese Scientists Claim In New Study... READ MORE›
The project was initially called HGP2 The Human Genome Synthesis Project, with HGP referring to the Human Genome Project... READ MORE›
The researchers say the grave near Stockholm has the first confirmed remains of a high-ranking female Viking warrior... READ MORE›
Mitochondrial donation is also known as mitochondrial transfer, and at its simplest description it involves the merging of three people's DNA into a single embryo... READ MORE›
CRISPR made headlines last spring when Chinese scientists reported the first-known attempt to edit human embryos, working with unusable fertility clinic leftovers... READ MORE›
A defeat for Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Indian capital would harm his chances of consolidating power in parliament, where his reform agenda is being thwarted... READ MORE›
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