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UK scientists support loosening restrictions limiting embryo research

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Scientists are calling for a review of the UK's 14-day rule on embryo research, saying that extending the limit could help ...
Eliminating bird flu: How gene-edited chickens could mitigate threats

Eliminating bird flu: How gene-edited chickens could mitigate threats

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In a recent gene editing study, my colleagues and I showcased the potential of gene editing to protect chickens from the threat ...
Podcast: Future fertility — In the coming world of synthetic embryos, can regulation keep up?

Podcast: Future fertility — In the coming world of synthetic embryos, can regulation keep up?

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Synthetic human embryos: can the law keep pace with the science? – podcast ...
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No need for sperm or eggs: Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells

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Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues ...
Biocomputers: Human brain cells may run computers of the future

Next generation medicine: Will the people who most need gene therapy and gene-editing tools have access to them?

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One of greatest risks of gene editing tools ‘is that the people who would benefit most will not be able ...
Ancient exchange of ideas: Modern humans and Neanderthals shared designs for jewelry and stone tools

Ancient exchange of ideas: Modern humans and Neanderthals shared designs for jewelry and stone tools

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Modern humans lived alongside Neanderthals for more than 1,000 years in Europe, according to research that suggests the two species may have ...
These 4 new techniques are spearheading future of fertility treatments

These 4 new techniques are spearheading future of fertility treatments

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Here are four of the new reproductive treatments that scientists say could be just a few years away from the ...
Boosting photosynthesis: GMO soy bean trial demonstrates 25% jump in yield

Boosting photosynthesis: GMO soy bean trial demonstrates 25% jump in yield

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Genetically modified soya beans designed to absorb light more efficiently produced a 25% greater yield in an advance that could ...
'Real-life Hunger Games’: Zolgensma is a revolutionary gene therapy — but it costs $2 million a dose

‘Real-life Hunger Games’: Zolgensma is a revolutionary gene therapy — but it costs $2 million a dose

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Zolgensma, a drug made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, that offers the most tantalizing hope [for children born with spinal ...
Slow mental decline begins in your 20s? New evidence suggests brains don’t slow down until after 60

Slow mental decline begins in your 20s? New evidence suggests brains don’t slow down until after 60

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It is widely accepted as one of life’s bleak but unavoidable facts: as we get older, our brains get slower ...
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Protein tangles may help predict where and how Alzheimer’s will strike the brain

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Tangles of a protein found inside the brain cells of people with Alzheimer’s disease can be used to predict future ...
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Inaccuracies in consumer genetic tests for BRCA mutations prompt call for crackdown from UK doctors

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Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly ...
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Are men angrier than women? Or do they just show it more?

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Science is beginning to provide new explanations about the ways that personality, age, gender and life experiences shape the way ...
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3-parent baby sparks backlash after doctors use experimental procedure as a fertility treatment

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A baby with DNA from three people has been born in Greece following a controversial fertility treatment. The baby boy, weighing 2.9kg ...
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Can genetic tests predict our cancer risk?

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The [UK] health secretary, Matt Hancock, [recently] shared his shock at discovering that he is at greater than average risk for ...
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‘Overblown’ fear of biotech crops hinders scientific progress, Nobel laureates warn

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Winners of this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry say overblown fears about genetically modified foods risk preventing society benefiting from ...
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Gender bias: Are we overlooking autism in women and girls?

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Hundreds of thousands of girls and women with autism are going undiagnosed due to it being viewed as a “male ...
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Challenging the story of our origin: Human traits had ‘patchwork emergence’ across Africa

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The origins of our species have long been traced to east Africa, where the world’s oldest undisputed Homo sapiens fossils were discovered ...
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Neanderthal ‘mini brains’ created from ancient DNA could illuminate human brain biology

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Scientists are preparing to create “miniature brains” that have been genetically engineered to contain Neanderthal DNA, in an unprecedented attempt ...
Gene editing could all but end world's most serious livestock diseases

Gene editing could all but end world’s most serious livestock diseases

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Farming is poised for a gene editing revolution that could overcome some of the world’s most serious livestock diseases, the ...
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CRISPR 2.0: Targeting incurable diseases by ‘turning up volume’ on good genes

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Incurable diseases such as diabetes and muscular dystrophy could be treated in future using a new form of genetic engineering ...
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Age of Alzheimer’s onset accurately predicted by test of 31 genetic markers, study finds

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Scientists have developed a new genetic test for Alzheimer’s risk that can be used to predict the age at which ...
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Chickens genetically engineered to act as surrogates could protect vulnerable breeds from avian flu

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In a radical plan to preserve rare varieties [of chicken breeds] such as the Nankin, Scots Dumpy and Sicilian Buttercup, scientists ...
Woolly mammoth 2.0 could be walking the Earth within 10 years

Woolly mammoth 2.0 could be walking the Earth within 10 years

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The woolly mammoth vanished from the Earth 4,000 years ago, but now scientists say they are on the brink of ...
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Can CRISPR gene editing restore sight?

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Blind animals have had their vision partially restored using a revolutionary DNA editing technique that scientists say could in future ...

Do your genes determine your academic strengths?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You may feel you ...

Academic performance across subjects may be influenced by same set of genes

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You may feel you are just not a maths person, or that you have a special gift for languages, but ...
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Swine fever-resistant pigs produced through new gene-editing technique

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On an isolated farm outside Edinburgh, pigs grunt eagerly as their food arrives. The barn has a typical farmyard whiff, ...
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