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Dangerously high cholesterol? CRISPR gene editing could lower it, tests on monkeys suggest
A team of researchers from Verve Therapeutics and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has developed ...
CRISPR food in Japan: Consumers more skeptical of gene-edited livestock than crops, survey shows
Because humans tend to feel closer to animals than plants, and commonly express feelings regarding animal welfare but not plant ...
Neanderthals, COVID-19 and you: Exploring how our inherited genes are harming us and could have decimated our hominid ancestors
[Researchers Svante] Pääbo and colleague Hugo Zeberg announced that the major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals… By ...
Burger tax? Study says we should raise meat prices to cut greenhouse gas emissions
As the planet continues to warm, researchers continue working to better understand the sources of greenhouse emissions. In this new effort, ...
Giant dinosaurs trace their evolution to global warming during the early Jurassic period 180 million years ago
Sauropods were truly amazing animals, and included the largest land-living animals known, with body lengths of up to 40 meters ...
Metformin: First pill that purportedly treats age-related illnesses in review for approval for trials
In recent decades, we've come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world's leading age-related diseases, such as ...
What are ‘supergenes’ and how do they impact evolution
Biologists identified 37… so-called 'supergenes' in wild sunflower populations, and found they govern the modular transfer of a large range ...
Ancient African savanna was like a ‘chess board’, broadening the minds of early humans as they hunted for prey
Northwestern University researchers recently discovered that complex landscapes—dotted with trees, bushes, boulders and knolls—might have helped land-dwelling animals evolve higher ...
‘Speech-like signature’: Chimpanzees’ lip-smacks rhythm may offer clues about how we learned to talk
The evolution of speech is one of the longest-standing puzzles of evolution. However, inklings of a possible solution started emerging ...
Tracking down the evolution of an essential human skill: self-control
Human self-control evolved in our early ancestors, becoming particularly evident around 500,000 years ago when they developed the skills to ...
Combining acoustic waves and CRISPR to create gene therapies for cancer and genetic disorders
A UCLA-led research team [April 28] reports that it has developed a new method for delivering DNA into stem cells ...
Infographic: Tracking coronavirus strains with genetic ‘barcodes’
Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the virus that causes COVID-19 ...
Bronze age gender inequality? Analysis of 2,500-year-old teeth shows different diets for boys and girls
Analysing 2500-year-old teeth has thrown open a window onto life and gender inequality during Bronze Age China. The University of ...
Artificial life forms—’with no mother or father’—could change the way we develop vaccines
Every living creature on Earth has parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on—representing an unbroken line of ancestry all the way ...
Why it’s unlikely that humans gained the ability to speak through a single gene mutation
One of the most controversial hypotheses for the origin of the human language faculty is the evolutionary conjecture that language ...
‘It seems so obvious’: How parasites influenced the evolution of human brains
It seems so obvious that someone should have thought of it decades ago: Since parasites have plagued eukaryotic life for ...
DNA ‘hot spots’ may explain why we are different from one another
What makes one person different from one another, and how did these differences evolve? A study by University at Buffalo ...
‘Ancient genes’ could point to our last universal common ancestor
Around 4 billion years ago there lived a microbe called LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor. ... If we trace ...
Can success in life be predicted by our genes?
A team of researchers from the U.S., the U.K. and New Zealand has found genetic variants that appear to confer ...
For all types of life, genetic diversity is ‘about the same’
Who would have suspected that a handheld genetic test used to unmask sushi bars pawning off tilapia for tuna could ...
