The Independent26d
Global study on depression identifies new genetic risk factors
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... a total of 700 variations in the genetic code of individuals linked to the ...
Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
CounterPunch2d
A Tale of Two Final Solutions
I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...
BBC5d
Henrietta Lacks: How her 'immortal' cells advanced modern science
However, cancer cells accumulate genetic mutations and acquire the ... Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was later released as a documentary movie in 2017. This also started much needed ...
Scientists May Have Found Traces of an Extinct Genetic Code That Came Before DNA
Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...
Yale Environment 3604d
Yale scientists recode the genome for programmable synthetic proteins
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...
The Hindu6d
The various challenges associated with AI-driven genetic testing
In March 2024, John Hopkins University researchers revealed how genetic code sequences, which were previously ignored, were found to be associated with tumours. Using machine learning techniques ...
Hosted on MSN25d
Coronavirus Mutates To Escape Immune System
The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies. 'Something the overwhelming majority of Americans support': House ...
The Washington Post24d
What to know about genetic testing for cancer, and when to request it
Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...
Nature6d
UGA: A Third Nonsense Triplet in the Genetic Code
For the structure of the genetic code and the evidence for nonsense triplets see the papers in the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium XXXI on “The Genetic Code”, 1966 (in the press). Weigert ...
news.ucsb.edu3d
UCSB postdoc receives competitive award to investigate the genetic changes that shaped the human mind
Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...
Los Angeles Times2d
Prince documentary canceled at Netflix, singer’s estate to develop new project
Netflix will no longer release a nine-hour documentary about music icon Prince after years of production. The late singer’s estate will develop its own film. “The Prince Estate and Netflix ...