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Sperm donor with cancer-prone mutation conceived at least 67 children across Europe
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of ...
Trump administration’s schizophrenic farm policy
Independent and organic farmers say chaos created by the Trump administration’s cuts has hurt their businesses, even as the US health secretary, Robert F ...
Investigation: TikTok is awash with misleading and potentially dangerous health information
More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation ...
What will happen with 23andMe’s personal genetic data now that it’s been bought in a bankruptcy auction
[R]egeneron Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256m through a bankruptcy auction, the companies announced [last ...
Here’s how Oxitec’s GMO mosquitoes might help limit the scourge of malaria
Last year, Oxitec released tens of thousands of GM mosquitoes in Djibouti, where there has been a resurgence of malaria caused ...
Bizarre but typical: RFK, Jr. takes his grandchildren swimming in sewage and feces filled creek—and brags about it
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has revealed that he went swimming with his children in a Washington ...
Swamped by lawsuits targeting its weedkiller paraquat, Syngenta reaches mass settlement but reaffirms global regulatory consensus that the chemical is safe-as-used
Besieged by thousands of lawsuits alleging that its paraquat weedkiller causes Parkinson’s disease, its manufacturer, Syngenta, has entered into an agreement aimed ...
Bananas that don’t brown within minutes? Gene editing makes that possible
“Food waste is a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It’s very bad, clearly,” said Gilad Gershon, the chief executive ...
A new generation of sustainable crops that redeploy soil microbes to advance sustainable farming is on the horizon
A biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK ...
Sexual selection: How evolution is making men taller and larger while female growth only edges up
According to a new study, men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over ...
Gem the cocker spaniel: How the British are circumnavigating the country’s cloning ban
At first glance, Gem is simply a very happy spaniel. With a plush toy in her mouth, she is the ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why gene drives are crucial to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Mosquitoes carry some of the world’s deadliest diseases ... but challenging geography, conflict, budgets, and insecticide resistance are among the ...
Elon Musk’s spermatozoa: Trump’s new billionaire friend offers his seed as part of a global plan to spur more procreation
Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate ...
Will 23andMe survive after the ancestral data leak fiasco?
The genetic testing firm 23andMe said on Monday it would cut about 40%, or 200 employees, from its workforce and ...
Viewpoint: Ideological anti-race scientist claims ‘American tech money is fueling a resurgence or ‘race science’
“Civilisation is going to pieces … if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine opponent and conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. poised to remake US health policy in his twisted vision
The vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr. is “going to help make America healthy again”, Trump told ...
UK moves ahead with crop gene editing but lags in approving precision breeding to contain animal diseases
Ministers are preparing to introduce legislation [permitting] the growing of gene-edited crops in England and Wales. [However,] the new legislation ...
Genomic prediction: Start-up claims to offer parents a way to select ‘desirable’ traits like IQ. Will it work?
There is broad scientific consensus that intelligence is partly inherited and that genes play a significant role. But pinning this ...
‘Banana apocalypse’? How disease resistant bananas can help overcome a global lack of genetic diversity
“[QCAV-4] is a Cavendish,” [Prof James Dale] says. “The bananas look the same, they feel the same, they peel the ...
Biopiracy? Are pharmaceutical companies stealing the genetic information in the developing world’s flora and fauna?
Low-income countries – where much of the world’s biodiversity remains – hope it could funnel billions into conserving the rainforests, ...
Unearthing the Shire? 3-foot tall Hobbit-sized human ancestor bone found in Indonesia
The remains of a member of the smallest ancient human species on record, who stood at just 1m tall, have ...
Insect protein is taking flight in the UK — fed on food waste from restaurants and supermarkets
There are no cows or chickens down on Entocycle’s farm; it focuses on an altogether different category of livestock – ...
Viewpoint: ‘Is your favorite clothing brand plundering ancient and endangered forests?’
You might think that wearing a top made from wood pulp would give instant eco-credentials – it is renewable, biodegradable, ...
‘Neanderthals cared for and looked after their vulnerable companions’: Human ancestor child with Down syndrome lived to 6 years old
A Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of six, according to a new study on ...
‘Your life experience doesn’t die with you’: Here’s how epigenetics can shape—and reverse—deep-seated behavior and memories
What if the old polarised debate about the competing influences of nature and nurture was due a 21st-century upgrade? ...
Grazing sheep under solar panels? How ‘intercropping’ livestock and clean energy boosts animal wellfare and farmer incomes
As a flock of about 2,000 sheep graze between rows of solar panels, grazier Tony Inder wonders what all the ...
Oxford University shuts down Elon Musk’s favored transhumanist institute, a leader in the ‘effective altruism’ movement
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’ ...
‘Thousands of children could die’: Far left The Guardian joins chorus criticizing Greenpeace’s ‘catastrophic’ plan to block Golden Rice rollout in the Philippines
Scientists have warned that a court decision to block the growing of the genetically modified (GM) crop Golden Rice in ...
