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3-D printed breast implants? This alternative to silicon regrows breast tissue and degrades without a trace
Every year, 2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer. Most choose not to have their breasts reconstructed; in ...
Avoiding ‘hanger’: What’s the link between irritability and skipping meals?
For those who get snappy when they miss out on lunch, it may be the perfect excuse: researchers have confirmed ...
We finally know how modern dogs arose from ancient wolf populations
The tale of how grey wolves became the pet dog of today has received a new twist, with research suggesting ...
‘Reviving extinct species’: Can freeze dried skin cells rescue endangered animals?
Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive ...
‘Absurdly crude and misleading’: Why some scientists believe evolution theory could be due for an update
The basic story of evolution, as recounted in countless textbooks and pop-science bestsellers, is absurdly crude and misleading ...
‘Designing babies’ to prevent diseases? UK public warming to the idea, particularly young people
More than half the UK backs the idea of rewriting the DNA of human embryos to prevent severe or life-threatening ...
One in 500 men have an extra sex chromosome. What does that mean and what are the signs?
Twice as many men carry an extra sex chromosome as previously thought, according to researchers who called for more genetic ...
Why aging often accelerates at 70
A groundbreaking theory of ageing that explains why people can suddenly become frail after reaching their 70s has raised the ...
Elixirs of life: Search for what turns out to be crank treatments to extend our limited time on Earth takes desperate people to exotic destinations
While science has made some promising breakthroughs in studying the causes and implications of ageing, real solutions are some way ...
Crop gene editing reforms are not enough: Here’s why British scientists wants to overhaul outdated GMO regulations along with CRISPR embrace
On 24 July 2019, Boris Johnson stood outside 10 Downing Street and delivered his first speech as prime minister. Among ...
CRISPR gene-edited tomatoes — with as much provitamin D as two eggs — could soon be sold in Britain
Scientists have created genetically edited tomatoes, each containing as much provitamin D3 – the precursor to vitamin D – as ...
Viewpoint: Guardian activist journalist George Monbiot promotes book with claims that plant-based diet and regenerative farming could feed Britain 3 times over
We currently use 17.5m hectares of farmland in the UK. [Dairy farmer Simon] Fairlie finds that while a diet containing a ...
‘Unfounded claims over unnatural ‘Frankenfoods’ have led to the vilification of an entire technology’: The Observer editorial urges UK adoption of gene editing and GMOs
[Recently,] the government outlined details of its long-overdue legislation for easing restrictions on gene-editing farm animals and plants. Current regulations, ...
How different is your real age from what your genes predict?
It can be said we have two ages: a fixed chronological age based on when we were born and a ...
‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka’s organic-only experiment collapses harvest and economy
There is barely a citizen of [Sri Lanka] who hasn’t felt the bite of catastrophic inflation and fuel, food and ...
Can we ‘reverse’ aging? ‘Reprogrammed’ skin cells offer promise — but we don’t know why
People could eventually be able to turn the clock back on the cell-aging process by 30 years, according to researchers ...
Personalized drug prescriptions? The future is now as support grows for expanding pharmacogenomic tests
Genetic testing to predict how individuals will respond to common medicines should be implemented without delay to reduce the risk ...
Solving the mystery of Epstein-Barr: Virus found in 95% of people leads to hundreds of thousands of cancers a year. Can we develop a vaccine?
In the 1970s, Hank Balfour, a virologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, was studying the long-term survival prospects ...
Out of Africa but not into Europe: Modern humans took a rocky path while settling the continent
Modern humans made several failed attempts to settle in Europe before eventually taking over the continent. This is the stark ...
‘Real-life Hunger Games’: Zolgensma is a revolutionary gene therapy — but it costs $2 million a dose
Zolgensma, a drug made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis, that offers the most tantalizing hope [for children born with spinal ...
EPA poised to extend use of four neonicotinoid pesticides, rebuffing environmentalist claims they endanger bees
The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, ...
Nature vs nurture? ‘Culture is not a mere moderator of our biology, but a fully fledged cause’
Few scientists today would say that 100% of your attributes are inborn or are learned; the debate tends to be ...
1 out of every 3,000 people: Simple and now inexpensive whole genome test could diagnose risks of developing neurological disorders
A simple test could end years of uncertainty for people with relatively common neurological conditions, new research has found. Historically, ...
Slow mental decline begins in your 20s? New evidence suggests brains don’t slow down until after 60
It is widely accepted as one of life’s bleak but unavoidable facts: as we get older, our brains get slower ...
‘Unproven and unethical’: Ethicists raise questions about human embryo risk analysis tests
Experts have warned against the “unproven” and “unethical” use of genetic tests to predict the risk of complex diseases in ...
Viewpoint: ‘Unnatural selection’? The troubling past — and present — of eugenics
Ideas of selective breeding are almost as old as philosophy. Plato proposed a utopian city-state in which elite men and ...
Podcast: Could the food we eat be fueling a surge in autoimmune diseases?
Could the food we eat and the air we breathe be damaging our immune systems? The number of people with ...
UK edges closer to embracing CRISPR gene edited crops, breaking further from the EU
Research into the gene editing of plants in the UK will become much easier with new rules brought forward by ...
