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genetics
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Designer Babies Are Running Into Trouble As Teens, Grappling With Being ‘Experiments’
13 Dec 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Imagine being born with the weight of your parents’ version of perfection on your shoulders.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
11 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
‘Ugly’ millennial fashion accessory is making a comeback, Power cuts hit Joburg, Plane carrying Malawi’s vice president goes missing, and How Ace Magashule’s Stalingrad strategy came back to bite him.
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DNA From A Baboon Mummy Revealed The Location Of A Mysterious City Not Found On Any Maps
21 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Geneticists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have however released a new study on baboon DNA that shows these creatures never naturally occurred in Egypt.
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“Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer” Pardoned After 20 Years
05 Jun 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A woman once branded “Australia’s worst female serial killer” has been pardoned after modern DNA testing revealed that her children had genetic mutations that could have caused their deaths.
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Yes, It Is Possible To Be Born With Three Penises
06 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A baby born in Iraq is the first recorded case of a human with ‘triphallia’, which means he was born with three penises.
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John Oliver Managed To Make Gene Editing Really, Really Interesting [Video]
02 Jul 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’re only beginning to scratch the surface in terms of what gene editing can achieve, so maybe it’s worth finding out more via the bespectacled Brit.
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The Medical Miracle Village Where Girls Mutate Into Boys At 12
21 Sep 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
There’s a village in the Dominican Republic that has a group of mutants in its midst – but instead of shunning them, the country recognises three sexes.
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Very Rare Blue Lobster Caught [Image]
26 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This would look good in the fish tank at home… A blue lobster has been caught – find out where it ends up (hopefully not in a thermidor)…
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Come Now – Why Are China Growing Pears That Look Like Babies? [Image]
20 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With non-stop talk about genetically modified food, how would you feel if your face was on the fruit you’re eating to slim down for summer?
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Happiest People In The World? Danish People Don’t Have A Choice
22 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Denmark is consistently ranked as having the world’s happiest people, and a new study shows that the key may be found in their DNA.
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Could We Ever Live To Be 1,000 Years Old? [INFOGRAPHIC]
24 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are a lot of old people around these days. Experts estimate that by 2030 there will be a million centenarians living among us. But is living 100 years on the planet too short? How about living to 1,000 before kicking the bucket?
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Is This Billionaire Actually Going To Try To Clone A Dinosaur?
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Mining billionaire Clive Palmer may be on his way to ignoring the single most important movie lesson ever taught – don’t clone extinct animals. Sources close to the man have allegedly claimed that he is in deep talks with the people who cloned Dolly the sheep to bring a dinosaur back into existence.
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Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Says Slave Descendants Make Better Athletes
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter, has been quoted as saying that he believes slave descendants make better athletes and that the controversial topic should not be avoided, but rather discussed openly.
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A Novel Disease Prevention: Self-Destructing Mosquitoes
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Following hot on the heels of a possible malaria vaccine, another group of scientists have bred mosquitoes in Guatemala which have been genetically modified to fight Dengue fever.
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Jurassic Park Scientist Plans To Turn A Chicken Into A T-Rex
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When reversing genetics in an attempt to create a real, live, man-eating dinosaur, it pays to know what the consequences may be. In this case, being the paleontologist who advised Steven Spielberg on the making of four Jurassic Park movies and decades of children’s nightmares about killer lizards should just about cover it.
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Japanese Scientists Make Breakthrough In Genetic Science, Hope To Create Mickey Mouse
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Walt Disney will be clicking his heels in his grave. Japanese scientists have, by promoting the miscopying of DNA from mice to their progeny, randomly produced a mouse that sings very much like a bird. So what are we aiming for here? Mouse servants? Mouse message couriers? No, not even remotely.
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