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The biggest biotech discovery of the century will make designer babies and...
Designer babies, genetically engineered to be super-smart, disease free, and physically fit, are the stuff of science fiction. But science fiction often predicts reality.The ability to edit human genes...
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Geneticists: Editing human embryos is a terrible idea
It's no secret that scientists can now edit genes.Resolving disease-causing mutations could help cure some of the world's most deadly diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hemophilia.In the past, these...
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People can now open-source their very own DNA for science
People eager to share personal information beyond what's on their Facebook profile have another outlet: an online platform launching on March 24 will let them give scientists information about their...
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Why Iceland could hold the secrets to the future of medicine
In a tiny country of just 320,000 people, scientists have begun to discover precisely how our DNA makes us who we are — and how it might turn on us.This week, researchers used the complete genomes of...
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The cold, hard truth about the quest to revive the Mammoth
Everyone has heard of de-extinction. Everyone.If they haven't, and are brave enough to ask casually in conversation, and if the person responding doesn't want to take the time to actually explain it—or...
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This company just revolutionized our understanding of disease by doing its...
This week, a team of scientists used the genetic data on thousands of Icelanders to find out where some of our most troubling diseases come from.They discovered that a condition called early-onset...
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FBI confirms death of 'most wanted terrorist' with DNA from severed finger
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it has confirmed that Zulkifli bin Hir, one of its "most wanted terrorists," was killed in a raid in the Philippines in January.A person...
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Should you trust companies with your DNA?
In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson's patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the...
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Allergies affect millions and can kill — but we know shockingly little about...
For me, it was hornets.One summer afternoon when I was 12, I ran into an overgrown field near a friend’s house and kicked a hornet nest the size of a football.An angry squadron of insects clamped onto...
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The oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found could revolutionize our knowledge of...
The calcite-encrusted skeleton of an ancient human, still embedded in rock deep inside a cave in Italy, has yielded the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found.These molecules, which could be up to 170,000...
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The US military will exhume the remains of hundreds of 'unknown' Marines who...
The remains of as many as 388 "unknown" US military members who died when the USS Oklahoma was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will be exhumed in Hawaii in an effort to identify them,...
View ArticleScientists have a pretty good idea how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago
It’s one of the most profound questions of all - how did life on Earth begin? With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Georgia...
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Milwaukee will pay $6.5 million to a man wrongly convicted of murder
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A man, who spent 13 years in prison before DNA tests exonerated him of the murder of a teenage runaway, will receive $6.5 million from Milwaukee under an agreement approved on...
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Chinese scientists just admitted to tweaking the genes of human embryos for...
A group of Chinese scientists just reported that they modified the genome of human embryos, something that has never been done in the history of the world, according to a report in Nature News. A...
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This is the game-changing technology that's just been used to genetically...
Researchers from China have just published a paper showing how they've edited the genome of a human embryo, to try to block a gene that causes a rare blood disease. The ability to edit human genes and,...
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These are the countries where it's 'legal' to edit human embryos (hint: the...
News broke on Wednesday that a team of Chinese scientists had edited the genes of human embryos for the first time ever, confirming long-swirling rumors that such ethically dicey experiments were...
View ArticleThis Mexican teen was forcibly sent to the US after being mistaken for a...
14-year-old Alondra Luna Nunez was reunited with her family after a bizarre case of mistaken identity.Nunez was originally sent to Houston to live with a woman who claimed she was her daughter and had...
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It's 'very possible' innocent people were executed because the FBI messed up...
The FBI recently dropped the bombshell that most of the experts in a major forensic unit gave flawed testimony about microscopic hair evidence during a 25-year period — potentially leading to wrongful...
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Warnings about a controversial new technique to alter human embryos are being...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Biologists in China reported carrying out the first experiment to alter the DNA of human embryos, igniting an outcry from scientists who warn against altering the human genome in a...
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Genes determine your risk for disease, but they're not a death sentence
Your genes are one of many factors that contribute to developing certain diseases. Yes, Huntington's disease counters that notion — if you have a gene variant, you are pretty much guaranteed to have it...
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