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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›
FLORIDA MAN TO RUN MARATHON IN 3-PIECE SUIT IN PURSUIT OF WORLD RECORD
The scoop was measured in Forno di Zoldo, Italy, in 2015, according to Guinness World Records... READ MORE›
BRITON SETS NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
The 31-year-old physical education teacher's lung-busting record was set at the UK's Tiverton Golf Club last August and was recently ratified by Guinness World Records... READ MORE›
HOW TO BREAK A GUINNESS MARATHON WORLD RECORD (IN FANCY DRESS)
I was running a high-mileage schedule to be in good shape for the marathon, but unfortunately very few sessions were completed in the dinosaur outfit... 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›
CHINA LAUNCHES WORLD'S LARGEST HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH PROJECT
Researchers plan to probe causes of sickness The world's largest human genome research project... 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›
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›
GENE EDITING RESCUES HEARING OF 'BEETHOVEN' MICE
Typically, researchers use a deactivated virus to deliver coded instructions for the cell itself to manufacture the Cas9 scissors ... READ MORE›
VIDEO: WORLD'S LONGEST WEDDING DRESS TRAIN CAN ALMOST COVER MT EVEREST
The world's longest wedding dress was unveiled in Caudry, a French town on December 9, 2017... READ MORE›
ADVANCE IN GENE EDITING REVERSES DISEASE IN MICE
A step forward in the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR Cas9 suggests some diseases like diabetes and muscular dystrophy may be reversible, according... READ MORE›
HAWAII WOMAN DISCOVERS ENORMOUS 5LB AVOCADO THAT COULD BE THE WORLDS LARGEST
A Hawaii woman is waiting to hear back from Guinness World Records to find out if the massive avocado she discovered is the world's largest... READ MORE›
HAWAII WOMAN'S AVOCADO MIGHT MAKE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
She had Ken Love, executive director of Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, witness the avocado's weighing... 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›
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WORLD'S OLDEST WOMAN, 116, EATS BACON DAILY
When she graduated from high school in 1922, Jones worked full time helping family members pick crops... READ MORE›
EMMA MORANO, WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON, DIES AT AGE 117
She held the Guinness World Record titles for oldest living person and oldest living woman... 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›
'MY FACE IS OLD BUT MY HEART IS YOUNG'
Yet that's exactly what Quaas did and more! at this month's International German Gymnastics Festival in Berlin... 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›
CAT WHO WEIGHS 14KG AND EATS RAW KANGAROO MEAT COULD BE THE LONGEST IN THE WORLD
After this, his owner Stephy Hirst, from Melbourne, was contacted by Guinness World Records, who said he may be the longest cat in the world... READ MORE›
MEET THE 6FT 9IN RUSSIAN MODEL WITH THE LONGEST LEGS IN THE WORLD A
Ekaterina Lisina, who stands at 6ft 9in, has two Guinness records to her name having also been crowned the world's tallest model... READ MORE›
STOUFFVILLE PUB SETS WORLD RECORD FOR LONGEST STREAMED CONCERT
On Saturday, a little over a week after launching their larger Guinness world-record attempt on St. Patrick's Day... READ MORE›
MEET DANNIEL, THOUGHT TO BE THE WORLD'S TALLEST COW
Prior to Blosom, the record for tallest cow was held by aA 6 ft 2 inA Holstein-Durham cross namedA Mount Katahdin, who died inA a barn fire in 1923... 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›
GIGANTIC FELINE WITH RIDICULOUSLY LONG LEGS IS THE TALLEST PET CAT IN THE WORLD A
Cygnus the cat has the world's longest tailA Credit Kevin Scott Ramos GWR Guinness World Records 2018 is out now... READ MORE›
DAD BREAKS WORLD RECORD WITH GIANT CHRISTMAS LIGHT DISPLAY
EST November 30, 2014 Over 1 million lights have been set up in Canberra, Australia, officially breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest LED image display... READ MORE›
MEET CORDUROY, THE WORLD'S OLDEST CAT
Kristen Ott a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records acknowledged that an older cat than Corduroy might be out there... 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›
WORLD'S OLDEST ORANGUTAN CELEBRATES 60TH BIRTHDAY
Her species normally don't live past 50, but Puan is celebrating her 60th birthday.A As the matriarch of the colony, she hasA 11 children, as well as numerous grand and great grandchildren... READ MORE›
SHORTEST MAN IN WORLD DIED, GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS SAYS
Shortest man in world died guinness world records says... 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›
IS THIS THE WORLD'S OLDEST CAT?
Scooter and his wise old eyes have been around for 30 years, and his achievements in extreme elderliness have now been recognized by Guinness World Records... READ MORE›
GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO
Guinness World Records maintains a database of 40,000 records, only 3,000 to 4,000 of which make it into the printed book... 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›
HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR COMPLETES 7,000 PULL-UPS TO SHATTER WORLD RECORDS
Andrew Shapiro's quest to set a Guinness World Record began seven months ago, with American Ninja Warrior and his father's cancer diagnosis... READ MORE›
BULLDOG SKATEBOARDS INTO THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS BOOK VIDEO
Record attempts will be made globally to mark annual Guinness world records day on 15 November... 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›
NEVER CRY WOLF: NORTHERN MANITOBA CITY HOWLS INTO THE RECORD BOOKS
The Guinness record is suiting for the community, 650 kilometres north of Winnipeg, which is the self-declared wolf capital of the world... 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›
918-KG KHICHDI NOW A RECORD, BUT MORE IS COOKING FOR 'PET MODI FOOD'
918-kg khichdi now a record, but more is cooking for 'pet Modi food'... 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›