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CRISPR creates mini-organs for disease testing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditionally, gene therapy efforts ...
Sleep vital for learning, memory and healthy heart-rate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sleep is known to ...
Massive analysis of genetic data reveals genes behind various traits, diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To understand the genetic ...
Gut microbes can be maintained in vivo, new study shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. By combining microbial culture ...
US government returning 8,500-year-old ‘Kennewick Man’ to Native Americans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, an international ...
CEO who took gene therapy designed to treat aging reveals promising early results
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, Elizabeth Parrish, ...
Zika virus’s rapid 70-year evolution may have given rise to current outbreak
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Microbiome, immune system mediate effectiveness of cancer drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2013, two independent ...
Synthetic tissue transmits electrical signals, like neurons
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers at the University ...
‘Anti-aging’ protein might not be key to youthfulness after all
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growth differentiation factor 11 ...
Epigenetic inheritance may contribute to diabetes risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While scientists have identified ...
Stress-mediating gene may be key to chronic pain therapies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Through glucorticoid signaling, the ...
15 years later, Human Genome Project researchers still influencing science, genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Fifteen years ago, as ...
Korean researchers develop gene editing technique that does not introduce foreign DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ongoing quest to ...
CRISPR gene editing could help researchers build plants with stronger immune systems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists are now filling ...
Viruses and fungi: Forgotten neighbors of human microbiome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At a workshop held ...
Researchers closer to understanding how Alzheimer’s gene works
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The allele apolipoprotein E ...
Scientists find evidence for congenital food allergies in umbilical cord blood
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CRISPR co-inventor, Jennifer Doudna, critical of Cell’s ‘Heroes of CRISPR’ piece
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Socializing makes chimp microbiome more diverse
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CRISPR/Cas9 used to make plants immune to destructive tomato virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CRISPR/Cas9 system can ...
Parasites implicate hygiene as trigger for allergies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The “hygiene hypothesis” proposes ...
Evidence for inheritance of stress through epigenome found in sperm of mice
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Skin microbes help fight off bacterial infections
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Gut microbes may be to blame for autoimmune eye disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gut bacteria may provide ...
Antibiotics may exert long-lasting effects on gut microbiome
Even short pulses of widely used antibiotics can lead to long-term development changes in mouse pups, including increased body mass ...
Forensic analysis reveals hominid who lived 430,000 years ago was murdered
It's the coldest of cold cases: a forensic analysis suggests that an ancient human who lived 430,000 years ago died ...
Brain structures communicate through ‘post office’ system
Scientists have achieved a greater understanding of the mammalian brain’s connectivity by showing that the hippocampus—a central information processing hub—sends ...
