Scientific American celebrates a bumper crop of super-healthy tomatoes, thanks to genetic modification:
… Read the rest “Super-healthy tomatoes showcase genetic meddling’s sunny side.”A single tomato of the new variety contains the same amount of resveratrol as
Nature reports that the octopus has, for an invertebrate, a really large genome – including a long sequence of genes that regulates intelligence in “higher” animals… Read the rest “The key to octopuses’ uncanny intelligence is in their genes.”
As a species. In some pretty profound ways, Nature says. They highlight a few of the “outsize effects” our Neanderthal genes have on our lives:
… Read the rest “Makin’ babies with Neanderthals *changed* us.”Now researchers are using large
Wired revels in the newest scientific revolution – the ability to rewrite our genes with ease:
… Read the rest “The gene technology that will change everything.”The stakes, however, have changed. Everyone at the Napa meeting had access to a gene-editing
It’s the sperm of perspective, is what it is. Nature is showing off the very seed of history – the oldest animal sperm ever discovered:
… Read the rest “World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.”The remains of long, thin cells preserved
Sci-News.com showcases the gene that gave us (and our Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins) big brains:
… Read the rest “The Big-Brain Gene. So here’s where the trouble started….”A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives,
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia:
… Read the rest “The DNA hard drive.”Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders:
… Read the rest “A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.”Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye color, location, Fitbit data and medical
Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos:
… Read the rest “One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.”This technique, known
Nature checks our DNA and finds that, yes, a lot of us are related to the Mongolian conqueror… but Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy:
… Read the rest “Genghis Khan ain’t the only big daddy.”“Lots of men have lots of sons, by chance.
LiveScience examines how and why rats are aroused by tiny vests:
… Read the rest “A rat bustier or a rat camisole for a little rat naughtiness.”In an unusual study, researchers allowed virgin male rats to have sex with females wearing special rodent “jackets.”
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic… Read the rest “Schizophrenia: many diseases in one”
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out what was *really* going on in her malfunctioning… Read the rest “Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease”
Science Daily has yet more research on the heritability of stress, with research that shows the effects of stress on one pregnant mom can last four generations:
… Read the rest “My great-grandmother was stressed when she was pregnant AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!”A first generation of rats
Science World Report takes a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed look at the mutation that makes some people chipper, functional early risers:
… Read the rest “The sleepless gene.”The researchers turned to 100 pairs of twins for this
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