Tag: genetics

It's the first time CRISPR was used to store and retrieve media from DNA.

People kill themselves for all sorts of reason, but there's a genetic makeup to it too.

The method can be used for any type of damage where the cell has to replace bits of DNA.

This could usher in a wondrous era for genetic science, but risks also loom nearby.

The genes, it's all in the genes.

I don't even want to speciate.

Worrying.

Not a good sign for a race hoping to colonize space.

Two different takes on an age-old topic.

Just like humans and Neanderthals interbred, so too did chimps and bonobos.

Researchers using a new genetic technique have successfully cured a genetic blood disorder in living mice, unlocking new possibilities for ...

Pass me some of that fat.

Keeping your genes in good condition is priority nr.1 for all life.

Looks like happy hour isn't just a human thing.

This could allow us to restore vision, mobility or fight diseases like Alzheimer's.

Make your data evolve!

A new study measuring the forces that shape bacterial genomes determined that a difference in efficiency of hundredth of a ...

The evidence is pilling up that fish grown in hatcheries are very different from those in the wild. A new study ...

A new study examined the way gene families evolve from ancestral genes, finding the original genes were promiscuous in that ...

A new study finds that many cancers are caused by mutations that block the tumor suppressor gene’s effect, through a ...

Careful with your diet, dads!

In a collaborative effort by the Oregon Healthy and Science University and the University of Pittsburgh researchers have been able ...

There is a long-lasting debate dividing the cancer researchers community over the point at which a skin lesion is considered ...

DNA - you either know is as deoxyribonucleic acid, or that stuff that somehow makes us what we are. DNA is ...

It's estimated that humanity will have to produce around 50% more food than we currently do to keep up with ...

A team working at the Francis Crick Institute in London applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a ...

In an announcement that’s been a long time coming for science fiction fans, the White House has, for the first ...

European males are on average 11 centimeters taller now than they were in the 1870s, which is quite a lot ...

Scientists are working to gather more and more details about Icelandic DNA, in an attempt to design better drugs and ...

Three hundred years ago, three African-born slaves from the Caribbean suffered a sad fate. No one knew who they are, ...

The remains of King Richard III have been confirmed with pin-point accuracy by the latest round of sequencing; exclusive details ...

At a rather strange location for a medical announcement, the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Dr. Florence Comite faced some of ...

Human face traits are so diverse because of evolutionary pressure, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Photo: ...

Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer. Image via Wiki Commons A new study concluded that schizophrenia isn't a single disease, ...

The Anopheles gambiae is the prime transmitter of malaria. A new genetic method manipulates mosquito populations so that only males are ...

The origin and evolutionary history of modern lions has been revealed through genetic analysis. This recent study suggests that the ...

I remember years ago, when I got my first computer - it had a storage capacity of 40 MB. A ...

Some of the human waste we flush out each day could become valuable research material - a potent source of ...

DNA 11 combines genetic science with art by providing its customers with their own, unique DNA portrait. Pioneers in the ...

This month, the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an United Nations conference where various issues where ...

A study performed last year observed that identical twins, who share 100% of the same genetic material and had the ...

The first genetically engineered or biotech food products were released on the market for the first time in 1994. Consumers ...

What if you could increase your ability to remember with a pill?  This may not be an idea just for ...

Humans are hot-wired to scan other people in their surroundings, and determine whether their trust worthy or not, all by ...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice able to express a certain enzyme, which allows for an increased metabolic rate. The lab ...

The sonic hedgehog gene got its name after researchers did some testing on fruit flies embryos, and found that the ...

Floods are a major hazard to crops worldwide. This year alone, billions of dollars worth of crops came to waste ...

Researchers at Linköping University have taken up themselves to study the intricate personality of the sperm donor. What they found ...

Scientists from the UK and Hungary have run various experiments to verify the claim of US researchers that a certain ...

In 2008 a deadly earthquake hit the Sichuan province of China killing tens of thousands and living millions homeless - ...