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Editing Human Stem Cell Genes Could Let Patients Grow Their Own Cures
Science For the first time, scientists using a combination of gene-editing technologies have corrected mutations in a patient's own induced stem cells. The breakthrough could pave… For the first time,...
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Your Living Conditions as a Child May Be Detectable In Your DNA for Life
Science Noted geneticist Snoop Dogg once said--and I'm paraphrasing here--that no matter where one goes in life, one's surroundings during one's formative years stay with one for… Noted geneticist...
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The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information
Science The next sequence is even cheaper Scientists needed $3 billion and 13 years to sequence the three billion base pairs encoded in a single human genome—the first time. By 2011, eight years after...
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Scientists Decipher Almost the Entire Genome of an Unborn Baby
Science In a new study fraught with some heady ethical questions, scientists have sequenced almost the complete genome of an unborn child, and done so without interrupting the fetus… In a new study...
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BeerSci: Uncovering The Secrets Of Barley
Science Scientists sequenced the barley genome recently. Will this make for better beer? Or are the implications more nuanced? Last month, scientists announced a big breakthrough in barley research:...
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Oddly Shaped DNA Structures Found In Human Cells
Science We've seen 'G-quadruplex structures' before, but a new study shows they are much more prevalent in our genomes than we thought. The above is a digital model of DNA, but it's probably not the...
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Out Today: The First Catalog Of All The Proteins In The Human Body
Science Say hi to the proteome. Two teams of scientists are publishing today first drafts of the human proteome. The proteome is a catalog of all of the different proteins the human body makes. This...
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Editing The Genes Of Superbugs To Turn Off Antibiotic Resistance
Science Fighting bacteria’s ability to fight Over the past decade, deadly bacteria such as MRSA, C. difficile, and even tuberculosis have developed numerous mechanisms to keep themselves alive at all...
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IBM's Watson Will Give You Health Advice Based On Your DNA
Health Two companies are teaming up to make a super-personalized health app. Maybe you have a fitness tracker. Maybe you've gotten your genome sequenced before. Probably your medical records are kept...
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Researchers Map A Protein ‘Tree Of Life’ For Species Across The Animal Kingdom
Science We're not so different after all Proteins are a vast network of worker bees in our body, all carrying out different functions, from facilitating muscle movement to initiating thought. Roughly...
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