genetics

Latest in genetics

Scientists are already for research into synthetic "mirror" lifeforms to be banned outright in order to save humanity.
Developments

Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind

By Frank Landymore

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.
Biology

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

By Joe Wilkins

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.
DNA

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

By Frank Landymore

A Gen Z entrepreneur with a passion for eugenics has launched an app that allows prospective parents to rank which embryos they want.
Developments

Genetics Startup Advertises App-Based Eugenics Service for Parents to Select “Smartest” Embryos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" human embryos in IVF for IQ levels. Does it work? Unclear.
Gene Editing

Super-Expensive Startup “Screening” Parents’ Embryos for IQ

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of botanists just discovered the largest genome ever sequenced — in an itty-bitty Pacific fern.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Plant With the Largest Genome Ever Sequenced

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study has found a link between left-wing beliefs and IQ — and it offers some pretty huge suggestions about smarts and politics.
Health & Medicine

Researchers Find That Higher Intelligence Is Correlated With Left-Wing Beliefs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Thiel fellow has launched a startup allowing parents to pick which embryos they want to incubate based on which has the best genes.
Gene Editing

Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Montana man was trying to create giant hybrid sheep from cloned embryos but his actions violated international and federal wildlife laws.
Future Society

Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Clone Giant Sheep

By Sharon Adarlo

For decades, most people have believed that genes are the blueprint for life — but that perception, a pair of experts argue, falls short.
DNA

Genes Aren’t Actually the Blueprint of Life, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
Gene Editing

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Interbreeding with the Denisovans left us with a gene that helped us with the climate, but left us vulnerable to mental disorders.
Gene Editing

Scientists Say We Bred With an Extinct Human Species and It Left a Grim Change in Our Brains

By Frank Landymore

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.
Gene Editing

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The link between smoking cigarettes and mental illness is well-established, but a new study complicates the matter.
Studies

Smoking Cigarettes Appears to Cause Mental Illness, Scientists Say, But With a Catch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.
Gene Editing

The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

By Frank Landymore

Henrietta Lacks' family has won a settlement from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech firm that made billions by selling Lacks' cells.
Gene Editing

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Is Finally Getting Paid by the Biotech Company That Stole Her Cells

By Maggie Harrison Dupré