CHILDREN WITH 'NORMAL' HEADS MAY HAVE ZIKA BRAIN DAMAGE

Waldorf and a team analysed the brains of five growing macaque foetuses whose mothers they infected with Zika virus... 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›

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›

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›

FIRST ATTEMPT MADE TO ALTER GENES IN BODY

There also are gene therapies that don't involve editing DNA... READ MORE›

WORLD'S FIRST BABY BORN FROM NEW PROCEDURE USING DNA OF THREE PEOPLE

When the couple approached Zhang for help, he decided to try the mitochondrial transfer procedure... 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›

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›

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›

EXPERTS WARN HOME 'GENE EDITING' KITS POSE RISK TO SOCIETY

The report found that gene editing could potentially block the inheritance of cystic fibrosis and more than 4000 other known conditions caused by single faulty genes... 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›

DOCTORS DEVELOP 'TRANSFORMATIONAL' NEW DNA TEST FOR DOWN'S SYNDROME

Joseph Aquilina, a consultant obstetrician at Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the five units that tried reflex DNA screening, said it was transformational ... 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›

WORLD FIRST BABY BORN WITH DNA FROM THREE PARENTS

Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at King's College London, said This is great news and a huge deal... 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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

SEVEN LABS WORLDWIDE CONFIRM 'STAP' CELLS CANNOT BE REPRODUCED

The journal said that all of the claimed STAP cell lines were contaminated with embryonic stem cells, and that the contamination affected the results... 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›

MEET THE AUSTRALIAN IVF BABIES BORN WITHOUT 'DEFECTIVE GENES'

After taking DNA samples from the parents, doctors were able to compare gene sequences and identify which genetic codes were defective... READ MORE›

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›