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EARLIER SEARCH FOR 'GOLDEN STATE KILLER' ON GENETIC WEBSITE LED TO WRONG MAN IN OREGON
Investigators hunting for the so-called Golden State Killer turned to searching genetic websites in 2017 but misidentified an Oregon man as a potential sus... READ MORE›
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›
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THE MAN WHO LOOKS AFTER 735 DOGS
Rakesh Shukla is a software engineer who's found his life's calling in looking after dogs that no-one wants, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Bangalore... 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›
POISON CLAIMS OVER CRUFTS DOG DEATH
Crufts dog death poisoning probe after irish setter dies... 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›
'NO DOUBT' CRUFTS DOG JAGGER WAS POISONED, SAYS OWNER
Everyone at Crufts2015 horrified at death of Irish Setter Jagger post-mortem found poison... READ MORE›
DOG WALKS NEARLY 20 BLOCKS TO SEE OWNER IN HOSPITAL
Sissy, the miniature schnauzer, walked through Mercy Medical Center's doors and into the hospital lobby, according to the news organization... READ MORE›
HOW ISTANBUL'S STREET DOGS END UP IN AMERICA
How istanbul's abandoned street dogs end up in america... 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›
VIDEO OF PUTIN AND YUME REVIVES AKITA BOOM IN RUSSIA
The footage showed the president coming into the interview room with his Akita Yume, and feeding her in front of journalists... 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›
WHAT IN THE WORLD THE LAB RESULTS ARE IN GENES MIGHT BE TO BLAME FOR RETRIEVERS OBESITY
The POMC gene is also present in humans, and while cases are very rare, there are obese people with a similar gene deficiency... 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›
CALL FOR DNA TESTING TO FIGHT ROGUE 'PEDIGREE' PUPPY BREEDERS
Now they have called for the Kennel Club, which oversees the registration of pedigree breeds in the UK, to introduce DNA testing of puppies... 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›
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›
DOGGED ENFORCERS: THE WELL-TRAINED SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD OF DOGSPOTTING
Once the two groups were of a similar size now, with more than 154,200 members, Cool Dog Group is almost twice as large as Dogspotting... 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›