Tag: genetics
Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now’s the...
Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took...
Can the study of epigenomics lead to personalized cancer treatment?
Fabian V. Filipp, University of California, Merced
Molecular insight into our own DNA is now possible, a field called personal genomics. Such approaches...
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University
Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...
Viking women travelled too, genetic study reveals
By Daniel Zadik, University of Leicester
The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging their way along the coasts of...
Mom’s prenatal hardship turns baby’s genes on and off
By Suzanne King, McGill University
In January 1998 five days of freezing rain collapsed the electrical grid of the Canadian province of Québec. The storm...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
