‘Closest thing to human embryos yet’: Lab-grown fertilized cells are more advanced and living longer than ever

‘Closest thing to human embryos yet’: Lab-grown fertilized cells more advanced and living longer than ever

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Human embryo replicas: The lab-engineered models give scientists a look at human development beyond the first week ...
‘It’s an erroneous belief that racial categories are objective and natural’: Experts recommend losing racial labels in genetic studies

‘It’s an erroneous belief that racial categories are objective and natural’: Experts recommend losing racial labels in genetic studies

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Human biological diversity is a continuum, but racial labels imply that people fall into discreet categories. For that reason, race ...
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Genes play larger role in how we respond to COVID than originally thought

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Getting COVID-19 can feel a little like playing roulette: It causes colds for some, but severe disease and death for ...
It’s been almost 20 years since the first crude map of the human genome was released. Here’s what we’ve learned

It’s been almost 20 years since the first crude map of the human genome was released. Here’s what we’ve learned

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In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs ...
20 years after the Human Genome Project: Efforts are underway to capture human genetic diversity and catalog missing DNA

20 years after the Human Genome Project: Efforts are underway to capture human genetic diversity and catalog missing DNA

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The Human Genome Project — which built the blueprint, called the human reference genome — has changed the way medical ...
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How one person was spontaneously cured of HIV—and what that may mean in the fight against AIDS

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Twice, people infected with HIV have had levels of the virus in their bodies drop to undetectable levels after bone marrow ...
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Plant domestication takes decades. With CRISPR it could take two years

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Gene editing can speed up plant domestication, taming wild vines, bushes and grasses and turning them into new crops. Editing ...
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CRISPR red flag? Gene drives may not always work as advertised

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A genetic-engineering tool designed to spread through a population like wildfire — eradicating disease and even whole invasive species — ...
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Origins of man’s best friend: Dogs likely domesticated only once, likely in Asia

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New data from ancient dogs indicates that dogs became distinct from wolves between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, researchers report ...
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How humans and chimps diverged: DNA parasite ‘jumping genes’ played key role

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Face-to-face, a human and a chimpanzee are easy to tell apart. The two species share a common primate ancestor, but ...

Can promises of gene drive technologies overcome safety concerns?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gene drive enthusiasts say ...

Should human germline gene editing even be considered for future use?

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Rumors about human germline editing experiments prompted scientists to gather in January in Napa, Calif. Discussions there led two groups ...

Dog’s genes provide clues to treating muscular dystrophy

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A Golden retriever that inherited a genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy doesn't have the disease, giving scientists clues to ...

Blondness carried in a single allele that enhances known hair color genes

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Some Europeans have enhancers that make them blond. In this case, the enhancer isn’t a hair dye, but a genetic ...

Genetic fossils betray hepatitis B’s ancient roots

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The following is an excerpt. A virus that causes liver diseases in people may have infected birds that shared the ...

Human genetic diversity exploded in recent millennia

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Most of the genetic quirks people carry today popped up within the last 5,000 years or so, researchers report online ...

Rare genetic variants may not as influential in common disease as once thought

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Rare tweaks in single letters of DNA are not as powerful a force in health and in common diseases as ...
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