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First CRISPR Trial To Edit Genes Inside The Body Will Help Treat Blindness
Up to 18 people ages 3 and up around the United States will participate in the first study to test a gene-editing technique inside the body. The technique known as CRISPR will be used to try to cure an...
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Tardigrade Protein Helps Human DNA Withstand Radiation, May Enable Long...
Tardigrades are microscopic animals that look like a cross between a caterpillar and a naked mole-rat. These aquatic invertebrates are almost impossible to kill. They can withstand the most extreme...
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Multiple Genes Can Be Edited Simultaneously With This CRISPR Breakthrough
CRISPR-Cas is a biotechnological method that offers a relatively quick and easy way to manipulate single genes in cells, meaning they can be precisely deleted, replaced or modified. It has advanced in...
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Human-monkey Hybrid Embryos Created In China By Spanish Scientists
Chimeras originally come from Greek mythology. They were the monstrous creatures that were part dragon, part goat, part lion. Today, we have our own version of chimeras. They are scientifically created...
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Scientists Improve Crop Security By Successfully Editing A Long-locked Part...
Mitochondria produce energy from nutrients which is why they are often called the “powerhouses” of cells. These regions of a cell contain their own DNA, apart from the nuclear DNA of the rest of the...
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Gene Therapy Restores Normal Blood Glucose Levels In Mice With Type 1 Diabetes
Approximately 9% of the world’s adult population has diabetes. The disease can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, nerve damage, eye problems, and kidney disease. Type 1 diabetes...
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Lower Childhood IQ Genetically Linked To Higher Alzheimer’s Risk
New research reveals that the gene variant strongly associated with an increased chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease later in life could affect cognitive health in childhood. The study conducted by a...
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Link Between Gut Bacteria, Obesity, And Immune System Discovered
The composition of the gut microbiome can be altered by an impaired immune system. This alteration results in metabolic disease which leads to obesity. Researchers deduced that certain species of gut...
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Bacteria In Gut May Promote Parkinson’s by Altering Brain’s Immune Reactions
A letter has been published in the journal Nature that states the findings of an early study supporting a “gut-brain” connection in this disease. A letter is a short version of a report outlining...
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This Is Why Some People Don’t Have To Sleep As Much As Most Do
There are some people that are perfectly OK with getting less than the 8 hours of recommended shut-eye. Why is that? A team of neurologists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) asked...
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Chinese Scientists Have Successfully Created Monkey-Pig Hybrids
Around the world, millions of people are on the “waiting list” to get an organ transplant; some die because they don’t get an organ in time. Chinese scientists are working on finding a solution to the...
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New Virus With No Recognizable Genes Has Been Found
Viruses are one of the tiniest lifeforms and most mysterious organisms on the planet. They can’t even survive and reproduce without a host, so labeling them as living things is a conundrum. If that...
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Cancer Research Has Led To A Heart Regeneration Discovery
Researchers from the University of Cambridge‘s Department of Pharmacology have inadvertently discovered a gene that triggers heart cell regeneration, which could one day lead to a way to heal damaged...
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DNA Embedded Into 3D Printed Rabbit To Make Copies of Itself
Researchers embedded a 3D-printed plastic white rabbit with DNA that contains instructions for printing new bunnies. Using the information, the rabbit can be replicated not just one time but several...
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This Longevity Gene Keeps Plants Alive After Flowering
Wouldn’t it be nice to harvest wheat from the same field, without having to plant new wheat plants? Thanks to Leiden scientists, that could become possible. But how? They discovered a gene that allows...
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Glowing Mushrooms DNA To Produce Plants That Glow
Out of nearly 100,000 fungal species, around 80 are known to be bioluminescent. A 2015 study found that the mushrooms emit a bluish-green light from within to attract flies, ants, wasps, and beetles,...
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New Synthetic Fungal Compound Cause Cancer Cells To Self-Destruct
Every single cell in your body has a lifespan. When it completes its duty, it dies by undergoing a process called apoptosis. There is a specific gene in the cell that takes care of executing this sort...
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DNA Data Storage Made Practical And Scaleable
A DNA strand’s data storage capacity is mind-boggling – 215 million GB of data can be stored in just one gram of DNA. To illustrate, the extreme density of DNA storage is enough to save the entirety of...
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Human X Chromosome Is Completely Sequenced For The First Time
Throughout decades, scientists have gotten close to sequencing the entire human genome, but there were always a few gaps here and there, until now. In a new study, scientists have achieved complete...
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CRISPR Gene Editing Could Help You Stay Thin
White fat cells are the ones filled with a lipid that make up fatty deposits – and human adults have lots of them. There’s another type called brown fat cells, which we don’t have many of. They are the...
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