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

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

EIGHT THINGS I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT GENETIC DISORDERS

While many genetic disorders are caused by changes in single genes, there are others that are due to changes to chromosomes... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS SAY DNA TESTS SHOW VIKING WARRIOR WAS FEMALE

The researchers say the grave near Stockholm has the first confirmed remains of a high-ranking female Viking warrior... READ MORE›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

BOOM IN GENE-EDITING RAISES ETHICS DEBATE

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›

DNA TEST DATA MAY NOT ALTER A PERSON'S HEALTH HABITS

DNA testing for disease risk has been expanded in many countries... READ MORE›

IT LIKELY TOOK JUST ONE INFECTED PERSON TO SPARK BRAZIL'S ZIKA CRISIS

The Zika virus, which was first confirmed in Brazil in May 2015, is now circulating in 38 countries and territories... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS BUILDING DNA FROM SCRATCH TO ALTER LIFE'S BLUEPRINT

By the time the new yeast genome is completed, researchers will have added, deleted or altered about a million DNA letters... READ MORE›

CHINESE SCIENTISTS CHANGE SHEEP COLOR BY GENE EDITING

The researchers in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have bred five sheep with different colors with the technique, known as CRISPR-Cas9... READ MORE›

ALS-RELATED GENE FOUND WITH HELP FROM ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

The ALS Association says a paper published this week in the journal Nature Genetics reveals Project MinE researchers have identified the NEK1 gene's connection to ALS... READ MORE›

STUDY FINDS MINUSCULE WATER BEARS ARE HUGE DNA THIEVES

They thus repair their own damaged DNA while also absorbing foreign DNA as the cell rehydrates, forming a patchworks of genes from different species... READ MORE›

DESIGNER BABIES SOON? SCIENTISTS GIVEN GO-AHEAD TO ALTER DNA OF EMBRYOS

David King, director of the UK campaign group Human Genetics Alert, has called Niakan's plans the first step on a path ..... READ MORE›

FIRST EMBRYO GENE-REPAIR HOLDS PROMISE FOR INHERITED DISEASE

I for one believe, and this paper supports the view, that ultimately gene editing of human embryos can be made safe... READ MORE›