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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.
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.
A baby born in Iraq is the first recorded case of a human with ‘triphallia’, which means he was born with three penises.
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.
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.
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)…
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.