Event Review: Crick Lecture 2014 - 'Genetic control and the mammalian radiation'
You and all the whales, rhinos and bats owe your lives to a tiny shrew...
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Amino acids
Small molecules that can be linked together to make proteins, which are large, complex biological molecules.
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Scientists engineer organism with expanded genetic alphabet
Bacteria with two extra synthetic DNA bases in their genome have been created in the lab for the first time...
We are what our mothers eat
Increasing evidence, mainly from animal studies, suggests that eggs and very early embryos in the first few days after conception can be particularly sensitive to their environment with lifetime consequences including risk of diseases into adulthood...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
'Father of genomics' Fred Sanger dies aged 95
Fred Sanger, renowned biochemist, has died aged 95. Having pioneered seminal techniques for the understanding of both proteins and DNA, Dr Sanger is widely hailed as one of the most influential scientists of recent years...
Crick Cambridge college commemoration
A memorial to Francis Crick has been unveiled at his former college at the University of Cambridge to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA...
Rare form of autism treated with dietary supplement
A rare form of autism, caused by a mutation that alters amino acid metabolism, could potentially be treated with a nutritional supplement, according to an international team of researchers...
Progress Educational Trust conference: Making the grade
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'The Best Possible Start in Life: The Robust and Responsive Embryo' boasted a redoubtable roll-call of eminent clinicians and researchers as speakers...
Scientists discover new way to reverse genetic defects
Scientists have discovered a way to bypass the type of mutation that causes about a third of human genetic diseases. Experiments in yeast have shown how chemical modifications can allow a cell's machinery to ignore mistakes in DNA known as nonsense mutations...
Has personalised medicine arrived? Genome scan used to identify rare condition
US scientists have reported possibly the first example of using one person's genetic sequence to refine a diagnosis and provide personalised medical treatment. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) helped pinpoint defects in the DNA of 14-year-old fraternal twins Noah and Alexis Beery causing their rare neurological condition, dopamine-responsive dystonia (DRD)...
New genetic clues to schizophrenia uncovered
An international team of researchers has identified a new gene, CYMA5, which is thought to be associated with schizophrenia...