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Experts have long known there is a genetic component to obesity, and a new study identified one particular gene that may be behind it. ... For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at ...
When a young New York boy was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, hope came in an unlikely form — a golden retriever named Yammy. His mother shares the inspiring story with Fox News Digital.
Bipartisan bills introduced in Congress Thursday would effectively ban a Chinese genomics firm from doing business in America. Intel officials have warned China is grabbing U.S. genetic info.
BioNews is an online newsletter publishing news on the science, law and ethics of human genetics, assisted conception, and related topics.It was founded in 1999 by Juliet Tizzard, and is published by the English charity Progress Educational Trust, of which it is the flagship publication.
In 1965, the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews surveyed geneticists to determine if there was a need for an annual journal that published review articles about recent developments in the field of genetics. Responses to the survey were favorable, with the first volume of the Annual Review of Genetics published two years later in 1967. [4]
On 26 November 2018, The CRISPR Journal published ahead of print an article by He, Ryan Ferrell, Chen Yuanlin, Qin Jinzhou, and Chen Yangran in which the authors justified the ethical use of CRISPR gene editing in humans. [74] As the news of CRISPR babies broke out, the editors reexamined the paper and retracted it on 28 December, announcing:
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. Science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms This article is about the general scientific term. For the scientific journal, see Genetics (journal). For a more accessible and less technical introduction to this topic, see Introduction to genetics. For the Meghan Trainor ...
Genetic alteration of somatic cells for therapeutic proposes was considered ethically acceptable in part because somatic cells cannot pass modifications to subsequent generations. However the lack of consensus and the risks of inaccurate editing led the conference to call for restraint on germline modifications.