Last year, we saw the first successful pig-human organ transplant. When will replacing diseased human organs with animal substitutes become a larger reality?

Last year, we saw the first successful pig-human organ transplant. When will replacing diseased human organs with animal substitutes become a larger reality?

This year, surgeons transplanted the first pig organs into human recipients. Researchers are keen to launch more human trials ...
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What drove the ascension of humanity? This one gene was critical

More than 500,000 years ago, the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans were migrating around the world when a pivotal ...
Intriguing new clues revealed about the genetics and evolution of homosexuality

Intriguing new clues revealed about the genetics and evolution of homosexuality

In a study of data from hundreds of thousands of people, researchers have now identified genetic patterns that could be ...
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

In August 2019, [biologist Alysson] Muotri’s group published a paper in Cell Stem Cell reporting the creation of human brain ...
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Gene-edited crops that ‘communicate with environment’ could launch next green revolution

Researchers at the Institute of Network Biology in Germany and their colleagues .... published a study in Nature showing that ...
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‘Excitement is finally catching on’: Why RNA editing may be more promising than CRISPR

CRISPR editing — at least as a therapeutic technique in people — has turned out to be more difficult than ...
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Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ are similar to those of premature babies and why that’s a concern

‘Mini brains’ grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time — and the electrical ...
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Study shows link between autism and widely banned pesticide DDT

Mothers with high levels of the pesticide DDT in their blood during pregnancy are more likely to bear children who ...
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Fighting disease with genetically modified bacteria

Several companies are testing whether engineered bacteria can treat conditions that affect the brain, liver and other organs — and ...
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Tracking the role of tau protein in Alzheimer’s

Jhon Kennedy’s relatives understood the illness they faced. For more than three decades, researchers there have been tracking a genetic ...
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How tracing the evolutionary family tree of all female lab mice will help improve medical research

Adam and Eve, a pair of black mice, lived for less than two years and never left their home at ...
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NIH controversy: Should human mind and brain research be considered clinical trials

Scientists studying human behaviour and cognitive brain function are up in arms over a plan by the US National Institutes ...
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Fountain of youth? Stem cells show promise in slowing aging, rejuvenating brain — in mice

Stem cells in the brain could be the key to extending life and slowing ageing. These cells — which are ...
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Can genetically modified viruses stop antibiotic-resistant infections?

Genetically modified viruses that cause bacteria to kill themselves could be the next step in combating antibiotic-resistant infections. Several companies ...
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‘Wake up call’: Farm animal overuse drives jump in antibiotic-resistance genes

Eighteen months ago, a gene that confers resistance to colistin — known as an ‘antibiotic of last resort’ — emerged ...
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Bacteria in your gut may influence effectiveness of drugs for cancer, Parkinson’s

Researchers now have evidence that healthy people metabolize some drugs in different ways depending on their microbial make-up. ... To ...

Scientists control mouse’s brain with laser to make them eat milkshakes quicker

Lasers shone into the brains of mice can now activate individual neurons — and change the animals behaviour. Scientists have ...
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Largest study of transgender teens to assess treatments during puberty

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For transgender children who ...
US Olympic teams experimenting with brain stimulation to improve athlete's performance

US Olympic teams experimenting with brain stimulation to improve athlete’s performance

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Elite ski jumpers rely ...
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CRISPR promises to revive endangered species, introduce new pets

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, researchers had ...
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US panel greenlights ‘3-parent embryos’ for IVF, but boys only

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The US Food and ...

Optogenetics brain studies may reveal unintended results, complicate research

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the tightly woven ...
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Neuroscientists peer into brain seeking roots of suicide

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Suicide is a puzzle ...

Pig organs may soon be suitable for human transplant, thanks to CRISPR

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  For decades, scientists and ...
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Antipsychotics given to patients without mental illness despite questions of effectiveness and risks

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Antipsychotic drugs are widely ...

How much access to DNA databases should be shared with public?

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  After dozens of unsuccessful ...

US genetic health studies fail to accurately represent country’s ethnic makeup

The clock is ticking for experts charged with designing a U.S. government programme to collect genetic, physiological and other health ...

U.S. researchers question inconsistent prosecution of scientific misconduct

Rare is the scientist who goes to prison on research misconduct charges. But on July 1, Dong-Pyou Han, a former ...
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