Genetics

Double the Trouble

Two peas from different pods.

Your Doppelganger May Have Strikingly Similar Genes, Habits

New Jersey has revealed that it used a newborn DNA sample to charge the child's father with a crime from 1996, which begs the question — what next?

DNA-Don't

Unsettling.

Cops Use Newborn Baby's DNA to Nail Dad for Crime from the 90s

A team of scientists in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker's yeast for the first time.

It's Alive

It "works like a charm."

Mad Scientists Create Human Bread Yeast in a Lab

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.

DNAh

"People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe... and guess what? Their DNA is now owned by a private company."

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

A team of researchers have injected a gene-editing serum into a live patient's liver with the goal of lowering their cholesterol.

Heart Saver

This could be a game changer.

Doctors Gene-Edit Patient's Liver to Make Less Cholesterol

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.

Blood Type

This is really promising.

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still "Cured" Three Years Later

The rise of  “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.

celebrity cloning

"Imagine being able to produce a child with your favorite movie star using the DNA from a strand of hair or flake of skin."

Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

Using a new gene therapy technique, researchers at the University of California San Diego reduced neuropathic pain in mice that were experiencing spinal cord or other nerve injuries — and with no side effects.

Deleting Pain

This could be huge.

Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy

Storing DNA

"And it'll be used for good, right?"

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

An international team of researchers claim to have slowed the signs of aging in mice by resetting their cells to younger states.

Turning Back the Clock

"The technique is both safe and effective in mice."

Scientists "Elated" by Treatment They Say Made Mice Genetically Younger

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.

Designer Baby Daycare

The kids would be regularly checked for “abnormalities."

Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

In her new book "The Genesis Machine," futurist Amy Webb warns that terrorists could create viruses in a lab and use them for nefarious purposes.

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