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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›
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›
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›
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CHILDREN WHO DRINK FULL-FAT MILK END UP SLIMMER THAN THOSE ON SKIMMEDA
But research on more than 2,700 children found those given full-fat versions ended up with a significantly lower body mass index than those given semi-skimmed varieties... READ MORE›
HEALTH CANADA'S NEW PACKAGING RULES COULD MEAN WARNING SYMBOLS ON MORE FOODS
Instead the Health Canada document recommends Canadians eat more vegetables, fruit, whole grains and protein-rich foods, with a focus on plant-based sources of protein... 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›
CHOCOLATE BUTTER IS HERE TO MAKE ALL YOUR BREAKFAST DREAMS COME TRUE
He added that the butter, made with Whittaker's 72 percent Dark Ghana Chocolate, is free from palm oil, differentiating it from other chocolate spreads on the market... READ MORE›
SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBE FOUND TO HAVE THE HEALTHIEST HEARTS EVER STUDIED
A South American tribe with a highly active lifestyle has the healthiest arteries of any population yet studied, say researchers... 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›
COCKROACH MILK IS THE SUPERFOOD THE WORLD'S BEEN WAITING FOR
Despite it's nutritional value, cockroach milk is extremely high in calories... 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›
VEGAN ITALIAN PARENTS INVESTIGATED FOR NEGLECT AFTER BABY SON FOUND SEVERELY MALNOURISHED
Mr Federico said the baby's parents had put him on a vegan diet once he began to eat solid foods... 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›
QUINOA GENOME UNVEILED IN SEARCH FOR HARDY CROP TO FEED WORLD
First grown by humans thousands of years ago in the high plateau around Lake Titicaca in the Andes, quinoa is still barely domesticated, the researchers said... 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›
FRANCE ERUPTS IN SCANDAL OVER REPORTED USE OF 'FAKE CHEESE' IN SUPERMARKET READY MEALS
France 2 quoted an unidentified factory worker who said one cheese was in fact made of water, vegetable fat, table salt, lactic acid and potassium sorbate ... 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›
HEALTH EXPERTS SLAM PETE EVANS' 'IRRESPONSIBLE' PALEO COOKBOOK FOR KIDS
She said breastmilk or breastmilk alternatives, such as commercial infant formula, are the only nutrition that a baby should receive... 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›
HARAR, ETHIOPA - THE CITY WHERE KIDS FEED AND BEFRIEND WILD HYENAS
The tradition dates back to the 19th century, when the farmers began offering hyenas food to stop them eating their livestock... 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›
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›
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›
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›