A TINY SKELETON FOUND IN CHILE MIGHT LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN, BUT HER GENES TELL A DIFFERENT STORY

A tiny skeleton found in Chile might look like an alien, but her genes tell a different story... READ MORE›

DESPITE WHAT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, ASTRONAUTS MARK AND SCOTT KELLY ARE STILL TWINS

A rash of news stories this week about Scott Kelly's DNA stemmed from a misinterpreted NASA update from January... READ MORE›

CALIFORNIA GROUP SETS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

The achievement by a team at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine will be announced this week at a pair of genomics conferences in San Francisco and Orlando... READ MORE›

ALCOHOL INCREASES YOUR CANCER RISK BECAUSE IT DAMAGES THE DNA IN YOUR STEM CELLS

Alcohol contributes to over 12,000 cancer cases in the UK each year, says Professor Linda Bauld, Cancer Research UK's expert on cancer prevention... READ MORE›

CHINA LAUNCHES WORLD'S LARGEST HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH PROJECT

Researchers plan to probe causes of sickness The world's largest human genome research project... READ MORE›

THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE: HOPE AND FEAR IN TOMORROWS WORLD | JIM AL-KHALILI

Meteorologists can now reliably tell us if it is going to rain tomorrow, but wouldn't dream of forecasting rain a year from now... READ MORE›

IN A MILESTONE YEAR, GENE THERAPY FINDS A PLACE IN MEDICINE

After decades of hope and high promise, this was the year scientists really showed they could doctor DNA to successfully treat diseases. Gene therapies to... READ MORE›

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THREE-PERSON BABIES 'BOLD STEP' - DEBATE

Related Stories MPs should take the bold step to allow the creation of babies from three people, Public Health Minister Jane Ellison says... READ MORE›

U.K. APPROVES TECHNIQUE TO MAKE BABIES FROM DNA OF 3 PEOPLE

The procedure is aimed at helping parents at risk of passing mitochondrial disease onto their children... READ MORE›

DURIAN DNA REVEALS STINKY SECRETS OF THE 'KING OF FRUIT'

Until this study, nobody had cracked the durian genome, said Professor Teh... READ MORE›

MATTER AGRICULTURE LINKED TO DNA CHANGES IN ANCIENT EUROPE

Dr. Reich and his colleagues confirmed that LCT, a gene that aids milk digestion, did experience intense natural selection, rapidly becoming more common in ancient Europeans... READ MORE›

DOG FAMILY TREE REVEALS HOW MODERN BREEDS CAME TO BE

First, researchers aimed to understand how the numerous and diverse dog breeds relate to each other... READ MORE›

BIDEN HEADS TO EUROPE AMID INTENSIVE DIPLOMACY ON UKRAINE

Some groups opposed to the procedure, including Human Genetics Alert, had likened it to genetic modification... READ MORE›

GENETIC EDITING COULD ROB WORLD OF CREATIVE GENIUSES LIKE THOMAS EDISON OR TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA

Statistics have shown that writers are 10 times more like to be bipolar than the general population and poets 40 times... READ MORE›

FIRST SAFE REPAIR OF DISEASE-CAUSING HUMAN EMBRYO GENE

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›

GENOME STUDIES SHOW HOW EBOLA SPREAD INITIALLY

It has continued to be among the versions of the virus propagating in Guinea and later in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

FIRST BABY BORN FROM THREE-PARENT TECHNIQUE

The resulting egg -- with nuclear DNA from the mother and mitochondrial DNA from a donor... READ MORE›

BRITISH BIRDS EVOLVE BIGGER BEAKS TO USE GARDEN FEEDERS

Researchers say UK's enthusiasm for bird feeders compared with mainland Europe responsible for increase in beak length... READ MORE›

3-PARENT BABIES OK'D BY U.K. PARLIAMENT

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›

CANADIAN COMPANY'S GENETICALLY MODIFIED APPLES WIN US APPROVAL

Arctic apples would first be available in late 2016 in small quantities but not widely distributed for some years, Carter said... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS SNIFF OUT ANSWER TO 'ASPARAGUS PEE' MYSTERY

Scientists have sniffed out the reason why some people think their pee has a pungent smell after eating asparagus while others do not... READ MORE›

PFIZER ACQUIRES BAMBOO THERAPEUTICS TO BEEF UP GENE THERAPY ARSENAL

However, the discovery of better ways to carry replacement genes into cells is building optimism... READ MORE›

MATTER DNA STUDY OF FIRST ANCIENT AFRICAN GENOME FLAWED RESEARCHERS REPORT

Dr. Manica and his colleagues, for example, are using it to study how humans expanded from Africa into Europe and Asia more than 50,000 years ago... READ MORE›

CANADIAN DISCOVERS GENETIC MUTATION LINKED TO SEVERE MS IN TWO FAMILIES

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›

'COMPELLING' SCIENCE REVEALS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS

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›

SCIENTISTS EXPAND LIFE'S GENETIC CODE TO INCLUDE TWO ARTIFICIAL DNA BASES

World's First Semisynthetic Organism Created Scientists Expand Life's Genetic Code To Include Two Artificial DNA Bases... READ MORE›

MEET THE AUSTRALIAN IVF BABIES BORN WITHOUT 'DEFECTIVE GENES'

After taking DNA samples from the parents, doctors were able to compare gene sequences and identify which genetic codes were defective... READ MORE›

HOW THE 'INTERNET OF DNA' COULD SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THIS BOY'S DISEASE

In infectious disease, researchers are also realizing the potential of genomic data sharing, particularly during fast-moving epidemics like Ebola or Zika... READ MORE›

NEW RESEARCH PROVIDES CLUES TO WHY PEOPLE ARE BORN INTERSEX

A genetic mutation that causes skull abnormality has been linked to intersex conditions... READ MORE›

TINY 'MICROPIGS' FROM CHINA COULD BE BOON FOR SCIENCE AND PET SELLERS

Tiny genetically modified 'micropigs' from China could be boon for science and pet sellers... READ MORE›

ANCIENT IRISH DNA INDICATES MASS MIGRATION FROM MIDDLE EAST

Ireland has the world maximum frequency for a number of important genetic variants, he said... READ MORE›

BOYS 'TURNED GAY BY CHILDHOOD CHANGE IN GENES'

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›

SCIENTISTS CLOSER TO CAUSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH DRAMATIC GENETIC FINDING

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›

AMERICAN SCIENTISTS USE GENE-EDITING CRISPR TECHNOLOGY ON HUMAN EMBRYOS

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

World's First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Created, Chinese Scientists Claim In New Study... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS HOLD SECRET MEETING TO CONSIDER CREATING A SYNTHETIC HUMAN GENOME

The project was initially called HGP2 The Human Genome Synthesis Project, with HGP referring to the Human Genome Project... READ MORE›