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The Hype Around Medical Genetics Could Be Bad for the Public

Science has always issued medical promissory notes. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon promised that an understanding of the true mechanisms of disease would enable us to e...

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Sustainable Development

Powerful new technique reveals the mechanical environment of cells in their natural habitat, the living embryo

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming...

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Sustainable Development

New, Genetically-Modified HIV Vaccine Enters Next Phase of Trials

A new possible HIV vaccine that uses a genetically-modified version of the virus is heading into Phase II trials. The results of an earlier trial showed it provoked an immu...

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Health

Healthy lifestyle reduces even genetic heart attack risk

A recent study has found that even among those at high genetic risk, following a healthy lifestyle can cut in half the probability of a heart attack or similar event.
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Environment

Can Mars' Bid To Publish Genetic Maps Of Historic African Crops Boost Nutrition?

A Multi-Million Dollar Research Group Co-Founded By The Confectionery Company Mars Is Set To Publish The Genetic Maps To Five Traditional African Crops As Part Of An Ambiti...

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Sustainable Development

Why CRISPR Never Could Have Come Out Of Silicon Valley

Jennifer Doudna is a creator of the gene editing technology that’s revolutionizing biology and medicine: CRISPR, which is so easy to use it’s often compared to ...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Are Using the Enzyme That Makes Fireflies Glow to Track Brain Cells

Fireflies and other bioluminescence-producing species (e.g. bacteria, jellyfish, worms, sharks) create light through a chemical reaction in their body catalyzed by an enzym...

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Sustainable Development

When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...

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Gender

Ecological And Social Implications Of Trans And Climate Change

We are biological creatures, part of an ecosphere, living in communities. Like any other organism, our genetic code sets parameters within which we live. The ecosphere is g...

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Environment

A Psychologist Is Trying To Use Genetics To Predict If Therapy Will Work

“How treatment is allocated is still relatively random,” said Dr Thalia Eley, professor of developmental behavioural genetics, and one of the lead scientists of...

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