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Brain implant allows quadriplegic man to feel touch on robotic hand
For the first time, brain stimulation has made it possible for a paralyzed person to experience the sensation of touch ...
Genetic mutations can accumulate over time contributing to cancer risk
How young will you be when you get cancer? The number of mutations you have in different genes can bring ...
First infertile women who used ‘three-parent’ method to give birth in early 2017
The first babies to be created using a “three-parent” method to overcome their parents’ infertility are due to be born ...
End of breastfeeding period triggers breasts to ‘eat themselves’
When a woman stops breastfeeding, her breasts go from being full-time, milk-producing factories to regular appendages...Now a molecular switch has ...
Nerve cells travel around inside baby’s brain for months after birth
Continuing for months after birth, armies of neurons migrate through a baby’s brain, until they reach their destination. Now researchers ...
Everything you need to know about three-parent babies
A baby boy has been born using DNA from three people – the first ever birth resulting from a new ...
World’s first baby born from new, controversial three parent embryo technique
A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people... The ...
Kuwait’s blanket genetic sampling efforts may harm its economy and science
Compulsory DNA testing of all citizens and visitors sounds like an Orwellian nightmare, but this is the new reality [for ...
Blind use visual cortex region of brain to solve math problems
While a leading theory suggests our visual experiences are linked to our understanding of numbers, a study of people who ...
Despite successful experiment, two-father babies still may not happen
Healthy mice have been created using sperm and cells that aren’t quite eggs for the first time. New Scientist questions ...
Scientists uncover our tongue’s sixth taste and why we love carbs
[C]arb cravings can be hard to resist[, but n]ow there’s evidence that carbohydrate-rich foods may elicit a unique taste too, ...
Lab’s choice of nutrients may determine sucess of IVF, babies’ health throughout their life
Here’s another layer of confusion to add to the uncertainty of going through IVF. The type of liquid a lab ...
Scientists turn mouse’s body transparent to study nervous system–Human brain next?
The technique developed by Ali Ertürk of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany and his team also shrinks ...
Scientists creating genetically engineered synthetic supermicrobe
It’s not finished yet. But if it is, it will be the greatest feat of genetic engineering by far. A ...
Parents turn to Prozac and other unproven drugs to help children with Down’s syndrome
Drugs that change the chemistry and structure of the brain could boost the intelligence of people with Down’s syndrome...[However, s]uch ...
Potential benefits of human-animal chimeras vastly outweigh risks
If we had a cheap and unlimited supply of healthy organs for transplant, it wouldn’t just transform the lives of ...
Scientists see genes switching off in live human brains for first time
The switching-off of genes in the human brain has been watched live for the first time. By comparing this activity ...
Gene doping could actually make Olympics fairer
There have yet to be any confirmed cases of athletes genetically enhancing their bodies. But this could be because none ...
FDA: GMO mosquito has no negative impacts, opening door to November Key West vote on Zika eradication trial
On 5 August, the US Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for a planned trial in a small part of ...
Great minds grow alike? Skulls of Neanderthals, modern humans show remarkable similarities
Evidence from Neanderthals’ skulls suggests that their large brains grew in the same way as ours do. That in turn ...
Gene common among Samoans is strongest genetic predictor of obesity
It could be in your DNA. A gene variant that increases a person’s obesity risk by 30 to 40 per ...
Video: Orangutan mimics human speech for first time
An orangutan has shown an ability to emulate human speech for the first time — a feat that gets us ...
Neanderthal brain development, cognition may have resembled ours
Great minds grow alike. Evidence from Neanderthals’ skulls suggests that their large brains grew in the same way as ours ...
Last universal common ancestor for all life on planet likely only ‘half-alive’
Now we have the best picture yet of what that ancestor was like and where it lived, thanks to a ...
Why do we sleep?
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Treatment used for wound healing may reverse menopause, restoring menstruation and fertility
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CRISPR may destroy herpes virus present within almost all humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Almost all of us ...
Robots and humans focus on different things, indicating neural gap
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at Facebook and ...
