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Australia is first country to approve genetically engineered banana, modified to resist disease

Jacinta Bowler | Cosmos | 
Queensland researchers have just received news over 20 years in the making – their genetically modified banana species called QCAV-4 has ...
Here’s how CRISPR is evolving into a tool to protect small African farmers

Here’s how CRISPR is evolving into a tool to protect small African farmers

Imma Perfetto | Cosmos | 
A research team has used genome editing to produce a rice variety resistant to yellow mottle virus, which is responsible for high ...
Every minute, a child under 5 dies from malaria. Here’s how gene editing mosquitoes could quickly dramatically suppress disease-carrying populations

Every minute, a child under 5 dies from malaria. Here’s how gene editing mosquitoes could quickly dramatically suppress disease-carrying populations

Matthew Ward Agius | Cosmos | 
US scientists are hailing a new gene modification technique that leads to the suppression of female mosquitoes of the species ...
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Cold adaptation: Why did it take humans 30,000 years to adapt to chilly climates?

Matthew Ward Agius | Cosmos | 
Ancient DNA has helped scientists reconstruct evolution and adaptation among humans living in Eurasia over the course of 30,000 years ...
‘Opposite of a one-size-fits-all approach’: Every Australian child with cancer eligible for genetic testing and precision treatment

‘Opposite of a one-size-fits-all approach’: Every Australian child with cancer eligible for genetic testing and precision treatment

Jacinta Bowler | Cosmos | 
A ‘precision medicine’ program that is expected to reduce deaths and improve life spans is about to be rolled out ...
A ‘dazzling, eggplant-colored’ genetically-modified tomato slated for US rollout. Here are its prospects in Australia

A ‘dazzling, eggplant-colored’ genetically-modified tomato slated for US rollout. Here are its prospects in Australia

Jacinta Bowler | Cosmos | 
Last month, the US Department of Agriculture issued a statement on a dazzling eggplant coloured fruit ...
Why smiley-face potatoes and other food with 'human-like' features repulse us

Why smiley-face potatoes and other food with ‘human-like’ features repulse us

Petra Stock | Cosmos | 
When food is given human-like features, people do not like to eat it, research from the University of Innsbruck, Austria ...
Differences between human and Neanderthal brains are minimal — so why are we so much smarter?

Differences between human and Neanderthal brains are minimal — so why are we so much smarter?

Evrim Yazgin | Cosmos | 
Our closest human relatives are Neanderthals (split from modern humans at least 500,000 years ago) and their Asian relatives the ...
Once insulated from bee health crisis, Australia invaded by honeybee-killing Varroa mites. How have other countries adapted?

Once insulated from bee health crisis, Australia invaded by honeybee-killing Varroa mites. How have other countries adapted?

Nathan Kilah | Cosmos | 
Just three short weeks ago the bee parasite Varroa destructor was detected in Newcastle, NSW. Beekeepers and government bodies have sprung into ...
Australia mulls use of ‘controversial’ gene drives to rid country of feral cats

Australia mulls use of ‘controversial’ gene drives to rid country of feral cats

Ellen Phiddian | Cosmos | 
Synthetic biology and genetic technology could be a safer, more humane way of curbing invasive species. Feral cat populations, for ...
What is a species? New DNA analytic tools upend outdated neat categories

What is a species? New DNA analytic tools upend outdated neat categories

Evrim Yazgin | Cosmos | 
It’s clear to anyone that an African elephant and a garden snail are different species, but the lines blur around ...
Long-standing belief that meat-eating helped drive human evolution called into question

Long-standing belief that meat-eating helped drive human evolution called into question

Ellen Phiddian | Cosmos | 
There’s a widespread belief that eating meat became much more common with the advent of big-brained Homo erectus, two million ...
Evidence emerges that this early human species swung from trees but also walked upright

Evidence emerges that this early human species swung from trees but also walked upright

Lauren Fuge | Cosmos | 
Early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans, according to ...
Another long-term study challenges benefits of moderate alcohol consumption

Another long-term study challenges benefits of moderate alcohol consumption

Ellen Phiddian | Cosmos | 
While the evidence on alcohol consumption varies from study to study, it’s generally thought that people who drink in moderation ...
99.93% of commonly-studied genes are associated with cancer. Is that creating a bias in research?

99.93% of commonly-studied genes are associated with cancer. Is that creating a bias in research?

Matilda Handsley-Davis | Cosmos | 
Have you ever felt like every week or two a new story comes out saying that something is linked to ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate is great at killing weeds, but there are concerns its use could imperil the microbiome of some insects — both beneficial and harmful

Viewpoint: Glyphosate is great at killing weeds, but there are concerns its use could imperil the microbiome of some insects — both beneficial and harmful

Natalie Parletta | Cosmos | 
[A] study, published in the journal Communications Biology, showed that glyphosate inhibits a biochemical pathway in bacteria that was previously ...
It has an effect, period: How menstrual cycles influence mood

It has an effect, period: How menstrual cycles influence mood

Ian Connellan | Cosmos | 
A research team led by Emma Pierson from Stanford University and Microsoft Research New England, US, found that the menstrual ...
Extinct Denisovans – modern human cousins – may have contributed genes to high-altitude adaptations seen in Tibetans

Extinct Denisovans – modern human cousins – may have contributed genes to high-altitude adaptations seen in Tibetans

Lauren Fuge | Cosmos | 
[A] cave on the Tibetan Plateau was once home to Denisovans, an ancient species of humans whose remains had previously ...
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Can listening to Mozart reduce epileptic seizures?

Cosmos | 
In a paper published in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology and just presented at a virtual meeting of the European College of ...
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Here’s why children learn languages more easily than adults

Cosmos | 
Previous brain scanning research and the clinical findings of language loss in patients who suffered a left hemisphere stroke have ...
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How sleep ‘cleans’ the brain

Natalie Parletta | Cosmos | 
Sleep has critical roles in health and regeneration, and one of those is clearing the brain of metabolic waste, according ...
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Video: Sperm are ‘spinners not swimmers’—because they are lopsided

Cosmos | 
Research by fertility scientists in the UK and Mexico challenges the accepted view of how sperm “swim”, suggesting that it ...
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‘Mind blindness’ makes it hard to remember the past and picture the future

Natalie Parletta | Cosmos | 
[R]ecent studies have found that 2% to 5% of people will see nothing at all [when they try to imagine ...
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Invading armies not to blame for fall of ancient Andean cultures, genetic analysis shows

Cosmos | 
An international team has conducted what it says is the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient ...
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‘Stealth’ technology could mean universal blood transfusions—regardless of blood type

Paul Biegler | Cosmos | 
Scientists have created a “stealth” red blood cell that camouflages its immune status, meaning it could potentially be transfused into ...
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Malfunctioning brain ‘hubs’ could be responsible for dyslexia, ADHD

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
Different learning difficulties do not, as previously thought, correspond to specific regions of the brain, new British research suggests. Instead, ...
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Evidence mounts that marijuana smokers more vulnerable to false memories

Mark Bruer | Cosmos | 
Cannabis not only induces forgetfulness, it also opens the door for false memories, according to new research. And that’s serious, ...
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Is your personality shaped by your gut bacteria? Study suggests sociable people have more diverse microbiome

Natalie Parletta | Cosmos | 
A new study from Oxford University, published in the journal Human Microbiome, has linked gut bacteria strains and diversity with people’s personalities. That ...
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