Stem cells found in nerves of teeth

Kevin Mayer | 
The soft, living part of the tooth—tooth pulp—is known to contain a small reserve of stem cells. These stem cells, scientists ...

Scientists attempt to determine role of epigenetics in cancer

Helen Thomson | 
You could be forgiven for thinking of cancer as a genetic disease. Sure, we know it can be triggered by ...
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Surrogacy is global business, but loose laws leave murky situation for all involved

Meredith Knight | 
Demand and affordability have forced many potential parents to seek surrogacy through international clinics in India, Thailand and Mexico. But ...

Why can some disadvantageous genes remain in a population?

Some 15 percent of adults suffer from fertility problems, many of these due to genetic factors. This is something of a ...
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Epigenetics can drive cancer, may be target for new treatments

Kenrick Vezina | 
The first direct evidence that epigenetics alone -- tweaks to gene expression -- can drive cancer in mice demonstrates that ...

Can scientists save the declining New England cottontail from extinction?

Lori Wright | 
Scientists with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station are working to restore New Hampshire and Maine's only native rabbit after new ...

DNA portrait of Puerto Rican ancestry

Miguel Vilar | 
National Geographic’s Genographic Project researches locations where different groups historically intermixed to create a modern day melting pot. Collaborating with 326 ...
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Promise of CRISPR gene editing–and the challenges

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and ...

Genetic link to neurodegenerative diseases found

Researchers from the Jackson Laboratory say they have pinpointed a mechanism behind neurodegeneration in mice, one that involves a defect in transfer ...
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Anti-biotech Center for Genetics and Society exaggerates dangers of gene editing technology

Sarah King | 
A healthy public debate is emerging over the revolutionary new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR. Challenging anti-GMO dogma, it's ...

New genetic factors in Parkinson’s found

WASHINGTON: Scientists have identified more than two dozen genetic risk factors involved in Parkinson's disease, including six that had not ...
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Google wants to define health using Big Data

Kenrick Vezina | 
Google's getting in on the big-genome-analysis game with the "Baseline Project," which seeks to examine gather information (genomic and otherwise) ...

Feathered dinosaurs may have been more common than previously believed

Sindya Bhanoo | 
A new dinosaur species — one with feathers — has been discovered in Russia. The finding could mean that feathers ...

Three-parent IVF policy in Britain raises ethical debate

Sarah Knapton | 
Three parent babies born from a controversial IVF technique which uses the donor DNA to fix genetic defects will never ...
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For Jamaican athletes, speediness is in the genes

Michael Brooks | 
Let's put political correctness aside: World class athletic ability is in the genes, and the success of Jamaican sprinting just ...

Twins study sheds light on language development

A study of 473 sets of twins followed since birth found that compared to single-born children, 47 percent of 24-month-old ...

E. coli radiation resistance genes may aid cancer research

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin has identified 46 genes in Escherichia coli that are necessary for its survival ...

Protein expression in aging brain linked to memory deficits

Kevin Mayer | 
Even during healthy aging, we slowly lose our ability to learn and remember new things. Often, cognitive decline is associate with ...

Newly discovered virus modulates bacteria in gut, aids immune system

Ed Yong | 
The most common viruses in your body don’t make you ill. Instead, they infect the legions of microbes that live in ...

Employing supercomputers in studying neurological conditions

Recent published research in the Journal of Clinical Investigationdemonstrates how changes in dopamine signaling and dopamine transporter function are linked to ...

Genes reveal biological processes underlying schizophrenia

Smitha Mundasad | 
Scientists found more than 100 genes that make people more susceptible to schizophrenia- 83 of which have never been pinpointed ...

Is susceptibility to procrastination genetic?

Maria Konnikova | 
Want to hear my favorite procrastination joke? I’ll tell you later. Piers Steel, a psychologist at the University of Calgary, ...

Artificial chip mimics bone marrow, generates platelets

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets ...

Climate change driving diversity in seal population

Kevin Schultz | 
Although climate change continues to stir up opportunities and challenges for animals across the world, new research published today in Nature shows the ups and ...

DNA replication model provides new tool for molecular geneticists

Human cells make new copies of their DNA billions of times each day, a crucial process upon which life itself ...

Promising new diabetes treatment overcomes negative side effects

John Timmer | 
In Type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system destroys the cells that produce insulin, leaving your body unable to make ...
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Raising the dead: ‘De-extinction’ science could lead to rescue of threatened wildlife

Philip Seddon, zoologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, addresses the fears of regenerating species as a tactic ...
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