Topic: Genetics
A second rare white kiwi has hatched at New Zealand's national wildlife centre, conservation officials announced Friday, months after the world's first hatched in captivity.The chick is believed to have the same parents as Manukura, which arrived in May, and it has ...
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Wednesday told a dad to love his gay son by helping him convert his sexualityTelevangelist Pat Robertson on Wednesday told a dad to love his gay son by helping him convert his sexuality, media watchdog RightWingWatch.org reported. When ...
Canadian researchers have discovered that a common gene links a number of rare reproductive cancers, a finding that could lead to new approaches for treatment, said a study published on Wednesday.Ovarian, uterine and testicular cancer were all found to have the same ...
People with a certain gene trait are known to be more kind and caring than people without it, and strangers can quickly tell the difference, according to US research published on Monday.The variation is linked to the body's receptor gene of oxytocin, ...
Doctors on Wednesday said they had used a wide-ranging genetic test for mutations in cancer cells to help finetune treatment for patients with lung tumours.Used on patients with so-called non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the technique has been such a success that the ...
Scientists said Tuesday they had transformed age-worn cells in people over 90 -- including a centenarian -- into rejuvenated stemcells that were "indistinguishable" from those found in embryos.The technical feat, reported in the peer-reviewed journal Genes & Development, opens a new path ...
(Reuters) - Opponents of Monsanto's new genetically modified sweet corn are petitioning national food retailers and processors to ban the biotech corn, which is not labeled as being genetically altered from conventional corn.A coalition of health, food safety and environmental organizations said ...
Scientists in Nepal are to build up the world's first national DNA database of the endangered Bengal tiger by collecting and recording a unique genetic fingerprint from each adult's faeces.Conservationists have relied in the past on the old-fashioned technique of photographing the ...
Scientists announced on Monday they had combined cutting-edge gene sequencing technology with Google Earth to accurately map the spread of typhoid in Kathmandu for the first time.The Nepalese capital was described in a 2008 study as "a typhoid fever capital of the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Iceland's Decode Genetics has clinched its first deal with a major pharmaceutical company since emerging in 2010 from a brush with bankruptcy, signing a research collaboration with Pfizer on lupus.The alliance will see researchers from both companies working together ...
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ENGINEERED CORN
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Food Tinkering
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