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Eight babies born with DNA from three people in the UK: Are designer babies a breakthrough or risk?
July 18, 2025 7:04 pm
Know all about the three-parent technique of IVF that can prevent genetic disorders but have raised ethical concerns
Can we build human DNA from scratch? UK scientists say they’ve started working on it
June 26, 2025 1:40 pm
The Synthetic Human Genome Project, officially launched in the UK, aims to construct human DNA from the ground up.
Scientists use DNA editing to produce fertile mice from two male parents for first time
June 24, 2025 1:50 pm
The new research advances epigenetic programming as a reproductive tool to breed motherless mice without compromising on their health and fertility.
Face of a woman who lived 10,500 years ago reconstructed; challenges genetic uniformity among European hunter-gatherers
June 22, 2025 2:17 pm
The woman lived in present-day Belgium, and ancient DNA analysis helped with her facial reconstruction, including skin tone, hair, and eye colour.
Y chromosomes have started shrinking: Here's what it means for men
August 29, 2024 4:21 pm
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 of which are autosomes, and one pair determines sex: XX for females and XY for males.
Rajkot gaming zone fire: 5 victims identified through DNA sampling, rest likely to be identified by tonight
May 27, 2024 7:39 pm
An air ambulance carrying the DNA samples landed in Gandhinagar at around 4 am on Sunday
Scientists produce yeast strain with more than half synthetic DNA in major breakthrough
November 10, 2023 2:31 pm
In a major breakthrough, scientists have developed a strain of yeast with more than half of its genome being made of synthetic DNA.
DNA of enslaved iron workers illuminates African American history
August 04, 2023 12:00 pm
Millions of people were transported from Africa to the Americas from the 16th to 19th century in the transatlantic slave trade, a brutal chapter in human history.
Effects of early childhood adversity seen in their adolescent bodies, study says
June 16, 2023 2:34 pm
Epigenetic mechanisms, which are sensitive to environmental factors, function like a dimmer switch on our genes, controlling how much of the gene is expressed and how much is turned off over time, says first author Alexandre A. Lussier, research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital
Baby born with three people's DNA in United Kingdom; know more about this one-of-a-kind IVF procedure
May 10, 2023 3:14 pm
The technique, called early pronuclear transfer, involves transplanting the nuclear DNA from a fertilised egg into a donated egg, which contains healthy mitochondria, on the day of fertilisation.
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