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5 Things to Read Instead Of…
Halloween is right around the corner – if you’re one of those who just show up in something last minute, fine. If you, however, are one of those that like to plan ahead, and right now you’re thinking...
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Horizon Discovery Collaborates to Introduce Pre-Clinical Models for...
Horizon Discovery, in partnership with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), has introduced two new gene knock-out and knock-in rat models for investigating the role of...
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An Early Christmas Present: Scientists have Unwrapped the Reindeer Genome
High-Quality Reindeer Genome Sequence Provides Resource for Studying Evolution, Domestication, and Adaptation to Arctic Climate With Halloween over, today is traditionally the day that the Christmas...
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Can Alzheimer’s Disease Spread Through Blood Transfusions?
The idea that Alzheimer’s disease could spread via blood transfusions, has been causing a stir, and a new study has proved that this could be the truth. According to New Scientist, a study found...
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3 Ways Genetics May Prevent Ageing Within Our Lifetime
Screenshot from YouTube / Kurzesagt Health is the most valuable thing we have in life. But we tend to forget that, until we lose it. We live longer than ever before, which is great – but an unforeseen...
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Gut Bacteria Affects Success of Cancer Treatments
Photo credit: University of Texas We find ourselves living in an era that houses the best possible medical technology. With that in mind, two new studies have been published showing how the gut...
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Scientists Genetically Modify Beetle With a Third Eye
Photo credit: Eduardo Zattara/Indiana University Scientists have managed to genetically modify a common beetle to develop a third functional eye, right in the middle of its forehead. Such a study...
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Genetic Engineering Used on Disease Carrying Mosquitoes to Eradicate Species
Photo credit: UC Riverside The mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is a carrier of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika Virus. In a bid to eradicate the species, researchers have...
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DNA Sampling Reveals Nine New ‘Yeti Specimens’
The abominable snowman’s existence still remains a mystery, but recent DNA analysis has shed light on the evolutionary ‘family tree’ of bears. A team of scientists currently studying nine samples of...
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International Science Prize Aims to Keep Shrimp on the Menu
Multi-billion $ losses to the global shrimp industry, together with devastating impacts on local livelihoods, could be eradicated, due to a pioneering UK-Thai science collaboration, using DNA...
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Updated CRISPR Technique Could Treat Incurable Diseases
An adapted CRISPR technique could be used to treat incurable diseases, such as diabetes and muscular dystrophy. The traditional method of using the gene editing technique snips DNA in specific...
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Cherry Growers Turn to Gene-Drive Technology to Save Their Agriculture
Photo Credit: Omar Akbari Although gene-drive technology stands as one of the most widely debated inventions of modern biology, it is what California cherry growers are relying on to eradicate the fly...
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CRISPR is Used to Create Personalised Pigs That Match Disease of Patients
Mason Konsitzke is a seven year old boy, who was born with an incurable inherited disease known as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). His father, Charles first noticed the one of the symptoms after his...
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CRISPR Slows Genetic Hearing Loss in Mice
Hearing loss in mice with a form of progressive deafness has been slowed by a one-off treatment using CRISPR. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator David Liu says this work is among the first...
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First Step Toward CRISPR Cure of Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Diagram of an adeno-associated virus, a benign virus Schaffer uses to ferry Cas9 genes into brain and spinal cord cells. Schaffer ‘evolves’ these viruses to target specific types of cells and to avoid...
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Gene-Edited Dog Cloned in China to Treat Cardiovascular Disease
Sinogene, a biotech company based in Beijing has cloned a gene-edited dog in an attempt to treat cardiovascular disease. Longlong was cloned from Apple, another dog whose genome was edited to develop...
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Scientists Aim to Turn Off Mosquito Genes for Biting
Researchers hope to use genetic information found in female mosquitos to stop mosquitoes from feeding on blood, which would, in turn, stop the spread of many serious diseases. Focusing on Wyeomyia...
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Boys Only: Gene Editing That Can Change An Animal’s Sex
(Illustration: Frida Holme) From glow-in-the-dark mice, less farty cows to silk-spinning goats, genetic modification of animals is nothing new. CRISPR has even been used successfully to create cold...
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Worm Self-Fertilisation = Loss of a Thousand Genes
Photo credit: Da-Yin/University of Maryland How is it possible to lose thousands of genes? Well, one answer lies in self-fertilisation. Once the roundworm, Caenorhabditis briggsae became capable of...
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Scientists Sequence Axolotl Genome: The Largest Genome So Far
Photo Credit: IMP The axolotl is one interesting animal, with the ability to regrow limbs, spinal cord segments, brain tissue, nerves and retina, there’s not a lot it can’t do. According to Zme...
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