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IF YOU THOUGHT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ONLY STARTED IN THE BRAIN, THINK AGAIN
This could also explain why Alzheimer's occurs with age, as the blood-brain barrier weakens and the amyloid-beta can move more freely... READ MORE›
BREAKTHROUGHS BRING GENE EDITING THERAPIES INTO VIEW
Another gene editing tool already in wide use, the CRISPR-cas9, cuts the DNA strand, typically to insert or delete a DNA base pair... 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›
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›
GENOME EDITING REVEALS KEY GENE FOR HUMAN EMBRYO GROWTH
The study found that human embryos need OCT4 to correctly form a blastocyst... 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›
Trending News Headlines : Gene Therapies
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›
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›
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›
AUSTRALIA ON TARGET TO ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C BY 2026
Mr Kostoglou was cured of hepatitis C last year, after being treated in a clinical trial of the direct-acting anti-viral medicine, Zepatier... 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›
IN U.S. FIRST, SCIENTISTS EDIT GENES OF HUMAN EMBRYOS
For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inheri... 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›
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›
SUMMIT URGES LIMIT ON GENOME EDITING
Human cells or embryos that undergo a process of gene-editing must not be used to establish a pregnancy, an international scientific panel said Thursday, u... READ MORE›
'GENE DRIVES' SHOW PROMISE IN BID TO MALARIA-, ZIKA-PROOF MOSQUITOES BUT NOT YET READY FOR WILD
Don't confuse gene drives with the many other genetic technologies that scientists have long used, the panel cautioned... READ MORE›
NO DESIGNER BABIES, BUT GENE EDITING TO AVOID DISEASE? MAYBE
Genome editing is essentially a biological version of cut-and-paste software, allowing scientists to turn genes on or off, repair or modify them inside living cells... READ MORE›