Scientists are using lice DNA to learn more about ancient human history
In what might be one of the grossest and most intriguing research cases I’ve read about this year, scientists have started using lice DNA to …
In what might be one of the grossest and most intriguing research cases I’ve read about this year, scientists have started using lice DNA to …
Scientists have developed a new therapy that they say can actually reverse aging on a genetic level. By having participants breathe pure oxygen in a …
Scientists have developed a method by which male animals can pass on the genetic material of other, different males. The idea is that these animals …
The relentless march of time will eventually claim all of our lives — or at least that’s the reality we’ve all come to expect. Short …
We’ve all heard a lot about genetic modification this year, thanks in large part to one Chinese scientist taking it upon himself to edited the …
There are probably a lot of things that annoy doctors. Patients diving into symptom-tracking websites like WebMD and convincing themselves they have a dire illness …
In late 2018 a Chinese scientist name He Jiankui performed work that has gained him not only the criticism of his peers but also backlash …
The relentless march of technology has made it possible for people do some interesting things to their own bodies, but injecting potentially harmful DNA just …
The world’s first genetically modified babies were recently born in China… or maybe they weren’t. That’s the story coming out of the country today as …
If you’ve ever succumbed to the temptation to have your DNA sequenced by a genealogy company you probably learned some pretty interesting things about your …
Many dog species have specific features that give them away. Bull terriers have long, flat noses, dalmatians have their iconic spots, and pugs look like …
Once one of the hottest mythical creatures on the block, the Loch Ness Monster has fallen out of favor in recent years. Sightings of the …
Remember, male doctors, it’s always a bad idea to inseminate patients having fertility issues with your own sperm unless your patients give consent. It may …
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year in space so the agency could study the long-term effects on the human body, in preparation for …
Modern medicine is an amazing thing, but when we start talking about tweaking our DNA things start to sound a little scary. The potentially frightening …
Hans Jonatan was born in St. Croix more than 200 years ago in 1784. His mother Emilia Regina was a house slave on the island, …
If you’ve ever stubbed your toe on a coffee table in the dead of night you know just how awesome it would be to switch …
Astronauts are some of the bravest men and women on the face of the planet, but the first crew to venture past the Moon and …
The topic of editing human DNA is one that has led to heated debate within the scientific, research, and medical communities for some time now. …
DNA makes us what we are, and it holds a ton of information about each and every one of us. Scientists have been slowly making …
Bickering about the paltry amount of storage on the cheapest new iPhone might become a thing of the past… at some point in the distant …
We all love our pets but how many of us love them enough to pay $100,000 to get cloned versions of them after they pass …
We’re not quite ready to alter human DNA on a massive scale, but there are means to edit genes in some parts of the body such …
If you’ve ever read recent dystopian sci-fi books such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake or Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, you’d know that one of their common …
Genetic information stored in DNA molecules makes life on Earth possible, but what if humans could use the same kind of technology to store their own …
It’s becoming increasingly clear that by looking at a patient’s DNA data with help of modern computers, physicians will be able to better adapt treatments …