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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

2nd January, 2018 1

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

31st December, 2017 318

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

29th December, 2017 10

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

20th December, 2017 0

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

9th November, 2017 1295

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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

3rd February, 2015 8535

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

DURIAN DNA REVEALS STINKY SECRETS OF THE 'KING OF FRUIT'


Until this study, nobody had cracked the durian genome, said Professor Teh... READ MORE

9th October, 2017 4563

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

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

4th February, 2015 1735

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

NEW SPERM CREATION METHOD COULD OVERCOME GENETIC MALE INFERTILITY - STUDY


An estimated one in 500 boys are born with an extra X or Y sex chromosome that can disrupt the formation of mature sperm, leading to infertility... READ MORE

17th August, 2017 1121

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

3rd August, 2017 1056

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

20th June, 2015 917

FIRST BABY BORN FROM THREE-PARENT TECHNIQUE


The resulting egg -- with nuclear DNA from the mother and mitochondrial DNA from a donor... READ MORE

28th September, 2016 860

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

28th September, 2016 756


Some groups opposed to the procedure, including Human Genetics Alert, had likened it to genetic modification... READ MORE

4th February, 2015 718

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

14th February, 2015 716

NOBEL DISCOVERIES ON DNA REPAIR NOW FUELING CANCER DRUG RESEARCH


Mismatch repair defects are found not only in hereditary colorectal cancers... READ MORE

9th October, 2015 241

STUDY POINTS TOWARD PERSONALISED TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER


It is a step closer to personalised healthcare for cancer, said Serena Nik-Zainal of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute who led the international collaboration... READ MORE

2nd May, 2016 207

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

2nd June, 2016 133

'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

MOTHERS MASTER TRICKY TIMING TO GIVE BABIES A BOOST, SQUIRREL STUDY SUGGESTS


A female squirrel's intuition may help boost survival rates for her pups, edmonton researchers find... READ MORE

29th August, 2017 106

TEEN LOSING HER SIGHT WANTS TO SEE THE WORLD WHILE SHE STILL CAN


Alexis was the only one who chose herself as a subject her OPA-1 genetic mutation... READ MORE

15th July, 2016 94

AUTISM IN GIRLS MAY HELP REVEAL ITS SECRETS


And some girls are born without autism despite the same genetic mutations seen in boys with the condition... READ MORE

13th November, 2016 94

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

11th August, 2015 90

HOW THE 'INTERNET OF DNA' COULD SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THIS BOY'S DISEASE


In infectious disease, researchers are also realizing the potential of genomic data sharing, particularly during fast-moving epidemics like Ebola or Zika... READ MORE

6th May, 2016 78

NEW RESEARCH PROVIDES CLUES TO WHY PEOPLE ARE BORN INTERSEX


A genetic mutation that causes skull abnormality has been linked to intersex conditions... READ MORE

29th September, 2015 72

IT SPECIALIST ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING HONG KONG PROSTITUTION SITE


On Saturday, Hong Kong police said they busted a compensated dating or prostitution website, namely hklovely, Apple Daily reported... READ MORE

5th April, 2017 72

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

AMERICAN SCIENTISTS USE GENE-EDITING CRISPR TECHNOLOGY ON HUMAN EMBRYOS


Researchers in Oregon are the first in the United States to use gene-editing technology on human embryos, according to a report in the MIT Technology Review... READ MORE

28th July, 2017 55

MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ASSUME THEIR MALE CLASSMATES ARE SMARTER, STUDY SHOWS


Female students gave other female students a recognition boost equivalent to a GPA bump of 0.04, too tiny to indicate any gender preference, Grunspan said... READ MORE

18th February, 2016 53

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

SCIENTISTS HOLD SECRET MEETING TO CONSIDER CREATING A SYNTHETIC HUMAN GENOME


The project was initially called HGP2 The Human Genome Synthesis Project, with HGP referring to the Human Genome Project... READ MORE

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