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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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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›
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›
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›
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›
'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›
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›
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›
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›
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 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›
HOW EPIGENETICS COULD HELP US SLOW DOWN AGEING
In particular, DNA methylation, a mechanism used by cells to control gene expression... 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 CREATE SLOW-MELTING ICE CREAM
Ice cream fans could soon savour a slower-melting treat on a hot day thanks to a new ingredient developed by scientists... 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›
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›
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›
PARTLY SYNTHETIC BACTERIA CONTAIN NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE GENETIC 'LETTERS'
The next challenge Normal DNA contains the coding for cells to form proteins that do the work of life... 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›
REMOVAL OF AGED CELLS FOUND TO BOOST LONGEVITY IN MICE
The mice that were treated to remove their senescent cells had a life-span extension ... READ MORE›
NORTH EUROPEANS MIGRATED FROM STEPPE DNA
Linguists have long debated whether Indo-European languages came to Europe with farmers migrating from the Middle East or some other group, such as the Yamnaya... READ MORE›
PIGS WITH EDITED GENES SHOW RESISTANCE TO COSTLY VIRUS
If the virus can't get in, then disease is prevented, said Jones, who was not involved in the study... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS DEBATE MORALITY OF EDITING BABIES' GENES
They argue that standard in vitro fertilization techniques to test the genetics of embryos before they are implanted, or before adoption, are alternatives... READ MORE›
U.K. OKS CONTROVERSIAL HUMAN EMBRYO GENE-EDITING EXPERIMENTS
Last year, Chinese researchers made the first attempt at modifying genes in human embryos... READ MORE›