At first, Everly Green’s parents didn’t understand why her doctors wanted genetic testing. Their daughter was behind on her milestones at 18 months, but was gradually making progress,…
Read more A Fort Collins family is trying to raise millions to test gene therapy that could help kids trapped in bodies they can’t moveIn 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA Space Shuttle missions grew in a breathtakingly weird…
Read more Moss Can Survive the Harsh Conditions of SpaceThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sip a glass of wine, and you will notice liquid continuously weeping down the wetted side of the…
Read more How Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living ThingsMore than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they beloved pets? Sacrifices, since they seem to have…
Read more DNA Reveals the Secret History of DogsIn a step toward the wider use of gene editing, a treatment that uses Crispr successfully slashed high cholesterol levels in a small number of people. In a…
Read more A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by HalfIn 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three…
Read more A New Startup Wants to Edit Human EmbryosFor decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging from the long-discredited link between the neurodevelopmental condition and vaccines, to…
Read more Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers WarnThe world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via…
Read more Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change PregnancyFew living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which revolutionized…
Read more Richard Dawkins on new threats to science—from religion to relativismThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions…
Read more Cells From Different Species Can Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNASome people get a lot of things from their parents. Their eye color, or the shape of their nose, or a crushing, inexplicable loyalty to a terrible sports…
Read more Why the Batteries in Your Body’s Cells Only Come From Mom and Why It MattersKteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already left the platform. “I think they hit on something viral,…
Read more 23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?There were many challenges in the process of confirming the role of the MAL gene, including a study by rival researchers that suggested a completely different gene could…
Read more Scientists Crack a 50-Year Mystery to Discover a New Set of Blood GroupsWASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 (Newswire.com) – A recently published article in Experimental Biology and Medicine (249:2, 2024) titled “Weighted gene co-expression network analysis reveals immune evasion related genes…
Read more Recent Study Shows Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis Reveals Immune Evasion Related Genes in Cystic EchinococcosisaOn a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new in the fruit section: a single pineapple packaged in a pink…
Read more WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!Fulgent Announces Second Drug in Development and New Prenatal Genetic Test – Los Angeles Business Journal Home Biosciences Fulgent Announces Second Drug in Development and New Prenatal Genetic…
Read more Fulgent Announces Second Drug in Development and New Prenatal Genetic TestWalk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself. I mean, I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos.…
Read more This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are BornResearchers believe they have discovered a new biological mechanism for obesity, pointing to rare variants on two genes that dramatically increase the risk of carrying excess weight. Research…
Read more Scientists Find New Genetic Variants for ObesitySometime you go out and a few drinks hit you must different they they usually do…there is a wide variety of reasons why, and genetics is one of…
Read more The Effect Your Genes Have On Your Marijuana HighHearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one in three people between…
Read more SENIOR LOOKOUT: Dealing with hearing loss can stave off dementia
