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Artificial life spawns billion-dollar industry

posted on 4/13/2017 2:30:00 PM

Growing designer babies and bringing back the woolly mammoth. Such thoughts that were once considered fiction are now a looming reality for scientists who are steps away from building artificial life.

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Octopuses can basically edit their own genes on the fly

posted on 4/8/2017 7:17:00 PM

Crazy levels of RNA tinkering could explain how cephalopods got so smart

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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever

posted on 4/4/2017 9:30:00 PM

Can billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?

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Mutations may reveal how Tibetans can live on world’s highest plateau

posted on 4/4/2017 3:58:00 PM

Now, scientists working with the largest-ever sample of Tibetan genomes have discovered seven new ways in which Tibetan genes have been tweaked to cope with high altitude, resulting in higher body mass index (BMI) and a boost in the body’s production of the vitamin folate.

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Doctors who created ‘three-parent’ baby lucky to succeed says UK expert

posted on 4/4/2017 12:36:00 AM

DOCTORS who created the world's first "three-parent" baby in Mexico were "sailing very close to the wind" and lucky to succeed, a leading British expert has said.

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Programming human cells to follow sets of logical instructions

posted on 3/31/2017 12:59:00 PM

A team of researchers at Boston University has developed a new way to engineer mammalian cells that allows for programming them to behave in desired ways.

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Pioneering stem cell gene therapy cures infants with bubble baby disease

posted on 3/30/2017 10:03:00 PM

UCLA researchers have developed a stem cell gene therapy cure for babies born with adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare and life-threatening condition that can be fatal within the first year of life if left untreated.

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Astaxanthin compound found to switch on the FOX03 'longevity gene' in mice

posted on 3/29/2017 1:52:00 PM

The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine ("JABSOM") and Cardax, Inc. ("Cardax") (OTCQB:CDXI), a Honolulu based life sciences company, have jointly announced the results of an animal study evaluating the effectiveness of a compound that holds promise in anti-aging therapy.

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Amazingly fast, cheap genome sequencing: Zika virus mosquito genome assembled from scratch

posted on 3/25/2017 5:23:00 PM

A team of scientists has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assemble the genome of an organism, entirely from scratch, dramatically cheaper and faster.

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