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GENOME EDITING REVEALS KEY GENE FOR HUMAN EMBRYO GROWTH


The study found that human embryos need OCT4 to correctly form a blastocyst... READ MORE

20th September, 2017 0

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

11th September, 2017 37

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

28th July, 2017 17

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

28th July, 2017 12

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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

15th December, 2016 7848

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

30th April, 2017 1754

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

25th December, 2016 1408

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

2nd August, 2016 342

A CHILEAN WOMAN HAD A CALCIFIED FOETUS LIVING IN HER BODY FOR 50 YEARS


X-rays showed a 2 kilo 4.4lb foetus thought to have died during pregnancy inside the woman's abdomen and outside her uterus... READ MORE

21st June, 2015 318

UNBORN BABIES WHOSE MOTHERS SMOKE COVER THEIR FACES MORE OFTEN REPORT


Photograph Durham University In the scans released with the study, fetuses of the smoking mothers appear to be almost covering their faces... READ MORE

25th March, 2015 199

PANAMA HAS 'FIRST MICROCEPHALY CASE OUTSIDE BRAZIL'


The World Health Organization WHO has declared a global public health emergency over the possible connection between the mosquito-born virus and microcephaly... READ MORE

20th March, 2016 171

SHIRE SEEN HAVING TO SWEETEN $30 BILLION OFFER TO WIN BAXALTA


Analysts at Berenberg Bank agree Shire is very likely to increase its offer as it continues to try to engage with Baxalta... READ MORE

5th August, 2015 132

'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

7th June, 2016 131

US OFFICIALS CONFIRM ZIKA CAUSES SEVERE BIRTH DEFECTS


The CDC said it also is clear that Zika causes other serious defects, including damaging calcium build-ups in the developing brain... READ MORE

14th April, 2016 85

ZIKA VIRUS DEFINITELY CAUSES SEVERE BIRTH DEFECTS, CDC CONFIRMS


Since last year, doctors in Brazil have been linking Zika infections in pregnant women to a rise in newborns with microcephaly, or an unusually small skull... READ MORE

14th April, 2016 79

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

29th December, 2015 67

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

9th October, 2015 56

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

28th January, 2016 56

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

1st February, 2016 45

STUDY FINDS DNA LINKS THAT COULD HELP IMPROVE TREATMENT FOR MIGRAINES


The genes we are finding associated with migraines are involved with vascular function, they are involved in blood vessels... READ MORE

21st June, 2016 42

'I HAD THE DREAD FEELING THAT I WAS PART OF SOME GREATER EXPERIMENT'


Every day I greeted my belly as if an embryo had implanted... READ MORE

7th May, 2016 26

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

25th March, 2016 21

EATING TOO MUCH FISH DURING PREGNANCY CAN RAISE CHILD'S OBESITY RISK, STUDY SAYS


These essential fatty acids may also help determine the length of fetal gestation and ward off a mother's depression during pregnancy or after giving birth... READ MORE

16th February, 2016 15

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

12th June, 2016 11

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

27th November, 2015 7

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

2nd February, 2016 7

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

2nd December, 2015 2

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

2nd February, 2016 2

EXPERIMENTAL BLOOD TEST FOR ZIKA GETS FDA NOD BUT MICROCEPHALY ELUDES EARLY-STAGE FETUS ULTRASOUND


Du Plessis said single ultrasounds may not capture infection-associated fetal brain abnormalities that may worsen over the course of the pregnancy... READ MORE

31st March, 2016 2

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

4th December, 2015 1

FOR SOME DISEASES, 'GENETIC DESTINY' CAN BE AVERTED


Scientists said Monday they had found a handful of healthy people each carrying a genetic mutation that should have condemned them to crippling disease or... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 1

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

15th February, 2017 0

GERMAN SPELUNKER DISCOVERS EUROPE'S FIRST CAVE FISH


A German man who goes diving underground for a hobby has discovered what scientists say is Europe's first known cave fish... READ MORE

4th April, 2017 0

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