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A powerful tool that lets scientists edit our DNA was discovered mostly by...
You may have seen the headlines about CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful genetic technique that lets scientists "edit" genes.It's been hailed as a miracle method that will cure disease, and also as the nefarious...
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Scientists are looking at dogs DNA to study how they became ‘man’s best friend’
For many people, dogs are like family members. But it hasn't always been that way.Before they were cuddly pooches, they were wild animals. Dogs are thought to have evolved from wolves to become the...
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The biggest scientific breakthrough of the year will reshape life as we know it
This wasn't the year the most powerful gene editing technology we've ever known — CRISPR — was discovered, but it was the year the world started to see just how much this tool would transform life as...
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A controversial tool that lets scientists rewrite DNA just achieved a major...
This year was undoubtedly the one in which CRISPR took over the minds and hearts of science lovers everywhere. On Thursday, Science Magazine announced the gene-editing technique won its Breakthrough of...
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'We all kind of marvel at how fast this took off'
On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite cadre of scientists gathered to discuss a simple yet incredibly powerful new genetic...
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These are some of the crazy things scientists did using gene editing in 2015
Gene editing was one of the most talked-about topics of 2015, and rightly so.One technique in particular, known as CRISPR/Cas9, has made it possible to quickly and precisely edit genes by cutting and...
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Scientists sequenced the first ancient Irish genomes and found something...
A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from ancient Irish people, providing insights into questions about the origins and...
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Five scientific breakthroughs we've learned from the International Space Station
The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space – this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a...
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5 big breakthroughs scientists got out NASA's $150-billion space station
The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space, and this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary.As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a...
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There's a fascinating reason why you're more likely to get sick in the winter
Ever wonder why you only seem to catch a cold when it's, well, cold out?Of course, germs — and not the weather — are the real culprits here: You have to come into contact with the bugs that cause...
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A legal storm is threatening a startup backed by Bill Gates that wants to...
A patent fight has been brewing over a new gene-editing technology that could be worth hundreds of millions, and it could throw a wrench in the plans of a company that just went public.On Monday,...
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A tool that lets scientists edit the human genome just got a lot more accurate
From curing genetic diseases to bringing back extinct species, the applications for gene editing tool CRISPR seem as limitless as the human imagination.And though the enzyme complex is more precise and...
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8 genetic mutations that can give you 'superpowers'
More than 99% of your genetic information is exactly the same as every other person on the planet.Your genes determine your skin color, gender, hair color, and whether or not you have certain genetic...
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Bill Gates is betting on a new company that just raised $100 million to...
Cancer in its many forms kills millions around the globe every year. It's the second-leading cause of death in the US, after only heart disease.It's an illness that starts when something somewhere in...
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Illumina is teaming up with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to develop a new kind...
Catching cancer early is an incredible challenge, but a new way to detect it in the blood may totally revolutionize cancer treatment in just a few years.Illumina, the $25 billion maker of gene...
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We got a glimpse at how the cancer test that Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates just...
Illumina, the maker of DNA-sequencing technology, grabbed headlines on Sunday when it said that it was teaming up with a group of Silicon Valley investors to develop a blood test for any kind of cancer...
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We might not exist if not for this accident that happened 600 million years ago
Millions of years ago, a random genetic accident may have enabled all of modern multicellular life to evolve.A single change was all that was needed to make the jump from single-celled life, like...
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2 teams of scientists are fighting over a powerful gene editing technology —...
Two teams of scientists that both claim to have invented a powerful gene editing technology are now getting a formal chance to argue their cases.On Monday, the US Patent and Trademark Office declared...
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Doctors might one day treat cancer by cutting bad DNA out of your genes (CLLS)
Gene-editing grabbed headlines recently after the discovery of CRISPR, a tool that allows scientists to cut out a particular, potentially faulty gene and paste another one in its place.Dozens of other...
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A massive project aims to identify millions of Vietnam War victims from their...
Scientists in Vietnam are set to embark upon the largest mass identification project in history, using DNA analysis techniques developed in Germany to determine the identities of millions of people who...
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