Tag Archives: genes

While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper Bound. Why?

Ray Kurzweil predicts that in the coming decades the term “life expectancy” will become irrelevant. By then medical advances and [...]

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Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells

Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]

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Electric Sheep: Stunning Visual Creatures Spawned By Thousands Of Computers While They Sleep

“Dr. Chandra, will I dream?” “I don’t know.” If Hal was somehow able to dream after Dr. Chandra shut it [...]

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Chinese Scientists Clone Cows With “Humanized” Milk

This very moment, grazing in the fields of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology in Beijing, China is a particular [...]

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Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance Causes WHO to Declare: “The World is on the Brink…”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The widespread misuse of antibiotics is rapidly rendering them powerless against infection. Common infections that [...]

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Japanese Researchers Successfully Grow Sperm in Lab – Eventual Cure for Infertility?

In an amazing technical feat researchers in Japan have accomplished something that has stymied the field for the past half [...]

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Cutting Edge Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms

Imagine that for years you’ve lived with a body that is in constant, uncontrollable, motion: your hands tremble, your head [...]

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Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Cells (video)

It’s faster, more powerful, and user-friendly. No, I’m not talking about the latest generation tablet, I’m talking about the latest [...]

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This Fall, Don’t Forget Your DNA on Your Way to College

Thanks to new programs at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University, some students around the country have a new item to add [...]

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New Research Sheds Light on Autism’s Genetic Causes

Autism remains one of the most poorly understood and troubling developmental disorders of modern medicine. But the genetic revolution could [...]

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Boolean Logic Unlocks The Key To Finding New Genes in Milliseconds

A little bit of computer science has made it possible to reduce the time it takes to find new genes [...]

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Exclusive: Complete Genomics To Sequence A Million Genomes – CEO

“We Are A Data Company” Cliff Reid, CEO Complete Genomics Without a doubt the hottest company in the genomics sector [...]

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23andMe Leading Way to Democratized Disease Research

Here’s a riddle: What do you get when you mix American Idol with genetic testing for disease? The 23andMe research [...]

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MIT is Organizing New Genetic Parts

If you want to check out a book you go to the library. If you want to get a copy [...]

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Super Babies Reveal the Key to Strength Gene

It’s known as myostatin, but it might as well be called kryptonite, because it’s what keeps each of us feeling [...]

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Now Recruiting: The Personal Genome Project

Everybody has a database: staffers, bankers, law enforcers and now geneticists, too.  The PGP is not a college fraternity (rush [...]

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Viruses – Batteries Now Included

Microscopic workers of the world unite! There’s a trend floating around laboratories: designing tiny mechanisms that can build other devices [...]

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Complete Genomics – New Information About the Hottest Company in Genetic Sequencing

Daniel MacArthur has once again delivered some of the best information on the net about Complete Genomics, the company that [...]

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Complete Genomics Stuns Genomics Community, Confirms Industry Shattering Capability

Daniel MacArthur at Genetic Future has just completed his post covering the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference, where [...]

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Another Step in the March Towards Designer Babies

The Herald and other major outlets are reporting that the “UK’s first genetically selected baby has been born.” This sensational [...]

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Archon X Prize Offers $10 million to Revolutionize Gene Sequencing

Many people have heard of the original X Prize, which was a $10 million prize given to the first company [...]

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deCODEme video tour

deCODEme offers an excellent video tour on their website that demonstrates what they can do with your dna. This video [...]

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Personal Genome Project (PGP) Highlighted by Wired

Wired came out with a pretty nice article on the Personal Genome Project (PGP) with a focus on the project’s [...]

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Living past 100 years with anti-aging genes

Two separate projects are both analyzing the genes of healthy, old (90 or even 100 years) people to see if [...]

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IEEE special report on the singularity

IEEE produced a special report on the singularity in its June 2008 issue located here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity This is a comprehensive [...]

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