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Earliest case of irrigation-loving parasite found in Fertile Cresent
The law of unintended consequences may have a longer history than we thought. At a Neolithic settlement in the region ...
Computer program reads facial features to identify rare genetic diseases
Doctors faced with the tricky task of spotting rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email ...
Brain responds to sunbathing like other addictions
Can't resist getting a tan despite the risks? It might be more than a habit. That's the suggestion from a ...
CRISPR editing might stop HIV
Take a hot new method that's opened up a new era of genetic engineering, apply it to the wonder stem ...
Humans speed natural species extinction by 1,000 years
First the bad news. Humans are driving species to extinction at around 1000 times the natural rate, at the top ...
Near-extinct American chestnut trees make comeback with help from genetic modification
The near-extinct American chestnut looks set to make a comeback. Genetically modified trees, which are resistant to a deadly fungus ...
Antibiotics can harm even when they work, contributing to allergies, diabetes, maybe autism
Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs. New Scientist has ...
Cold case: Cryogenics may enter modern emergency care
Cryogenic preservation has long been fodder for science fiction films. But, emergency room doctors in Pittsburgh hope to save severely ...
Baby’s microbiome may come from mom’s mouth via placenta
Babies in the womb are not as sheltered from the outside world as you might think. The placenta harbours a ...
Synthetic bio breakthrough: Flies that make new amino acids
The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that ...
Clues in polar bear genes may help understanding of obesity
It turns out that the largest land predators alive have a host of genetic tricks to help them survive their ...
Stem cell trial for stroke shows potential for lasting benefits
People who received the world's first stem cell treatment for strokes have shown measurable reductions in disability and handicap a ...
New Tyrannosaurus was smaller, more graceful cousin of T.Rex
We have found a lost cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, and it was a far more graceful creature than its more ...
Leukemia type can be detected by the shape of DNA’s packaging in nucleus
When someone has leukaemia, differences in how their genome is folded up into the nucleus of their cells can reveal ...
Protein in young blood fights aging
A protein in blood can repair age-related damage in the brains and muscles of old mice, returning them to a ...
Pig heart transplants successful in baboons, offer hope for human organ shortage
The unprecedented survival of pig hearts in four baboons for almost 600 days has revived hopes that animal organs could ...
Genetic advantage may be why farming societies displaced hunter-gatherers
How did farming take over the world? One theory is that farming was such an evidently good idea that it ...
Gene therapy can restore hearing to deaf poeple
In two months' time, a group of profoundly deaf people could be able to hear again, thanks to the world's ...
Depressed people may produce too much of a damaging neuroprotein
Post-mortem analysis of brain tissue has shown that the dendrites that relay messages between neurons are more shrivelled in people ...
Mechanism for epigenetic inheritance found in sperm
A solution may be nigh to one of the biggest mysteries of biology – how the effects of a person's ...
Alzheimer’s gene risk varies by sex
Carrying a copy of the "Alzheimer's gene" doesn't significantly raise a man's risk of developing the disease. The gene does ...
Woman receives bio-engineered vagina
She was 18 when she was diagnosed with the rare disorder Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome (MRKHS). The same year, she was one ...
Severe childhood stress ages chromosomes decades
Children growing up in severely disadvantaged circumstances can experience drastic chromosome ageing. By the time they are 9 years old ...
More stem cell papers questioned: Why is the field so vulnerable?
It is too soon to say whether two papers reporting the results will have to be retracted. But for stem ...
Map of how DNA controls cells may boost gene therapies
The clearest map yet of how genes control cells to make our bodies work has been drawn up. The map ...
New bipolar treatments possible with stem cell model of disease
Skin cells taken from people with bipolar disorder have been turned into brain cells. These in turn are offering up ...
Facing the limits of DNA-based mug shots
It's being dubbed "molecular photofitting": producing an image of a suspect's face from DNA left at the crime scene. New ...
Genetic mug shots created from DNA samples
Using a new technique, researchers can build photorealistic 3d images of people, virtual mugshots, based on just their DNA ...
