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Why infected patients should be put on multidrug cocktails to head off antibiotic tolerance and resistance

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Infectious bacteria that are down but not quite dead yet may be more dangerous than previously thought. Even as one ...
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‘Self-eating’ mitochondria may make the brain vulnerable to Lou Gehrig’s disease

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A newly discovered type of mitochondrial self-destruction may make some brain cells vulnerable to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s ...
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How can ‘water bears’ survive in outer space? ‘Fluffy cloud’ of protein may shield tardigrade DNA

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Tardigrades may partly owe their ability to survive outer space to having the molecular equivalent of cotton candy. Water bears, ...
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Did whales gain the ability to live in the water by shedding genes?

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Like stripping down to swim, the ancestors of whales and dolphins may have shed some genes during their transition from ...
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CRISPR ‘put to the test’ against inherited blindness, blood disease. Next up Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis

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Since its debut in 2012, CRISPR gene editing has held the promise of curing most of the over 6,000 known ...
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Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago

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No one should have to sleep with the fishes, but new research on zebrafish suggests that we sleep like them.  ...
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Consumer genetic testing firms may not be able to block police access to data

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The GEDMatch decision to give police access to its data in the assault case — made without informing the database’s ...
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Gut bacteria from thin people fails to help obese people lose weight in study

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Changing your gut microbes may not help you lose belly fat. In a preliminary study, obese people got either capsules ...
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Can genetics predict a baby’s risk of becoming an obese adult?

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There’s a new way to predict whether a baby will grow into an obese adult. Combining the effect of more ...
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Meet 5 RNA ‘movers and shakers’ including one that may protect against Alzheimer’s

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RNAs, composed of strings of genetic letters called nucleotides, are best known for ferrying instructions from the genes in our ...
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Why Nobel laureate David Baltimore doesn’t support moratorium on CRISPR babies

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Some scientists have recently proposed a temporary moratorium on editing that would result in babies that carry heritable changes. … Science ...
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Crime scene conundrum: Your DNA can wind up on something you never even touched

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A 10-second handshake could transfer a person’s DNA to an object that the person never touched. In handshaking experiments, people ...
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Rodent-targeting gene drive could be delivered through CRISPR

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Scientists are getting closer to creating a genetic pest-control measure against rodents. Female mice engineered to carry a genetic cut-and-paste machine ...
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Whether you prefer coffee or tea may depend on your DNA

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Whether people prefer coffee or tea may boil down to a matter of taste genetics. People with a version of ...
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‘There is no gay gene’: But study suggests genetics may play role in choosing same sex partner

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In a large study of more than 490,000 men and women in the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden, researchers ...
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Here’s what you get from 3 very different at-home genetic tests

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For health testing, I sent spit samples to 23andMe, Genos and Veritas Genetics, three companies that represent the various levels of DNA testing available ...
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What makes a female? How XX embryos destroy male reproductive tissue

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A protein called COUP-TFII is necessary to eliminate male reproductive tissue from female mouse embryos, researchers report in the Aug. 18 Science. For ...
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Understanding how CRISPR works: The basics

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CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” Those repeats are elements of the genetic code in DNA. Cas9 is an enzyme that ...
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DNA of unknown extinct human ancestor species found

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Traces of long-lost human cousins may be hiding in modern people’s DNA, a new computer analysis suggests. People from Melanesia, ...
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CRISPR enters period of creative redesigns and gene editing upgrades

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Scientists usually shy away from using the word miracle — unless they’re talking about...CRISPR/Cas9. ... Even with all the genetic ...
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Gene drive’s fatal flaw could become its biggest advantage

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gene drives have worked ...
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