Film Review: The Lion's Mouth Opens
Julia Hill reviews 'The Lion's Mouth Opens', a moving portrait of Huntington's Disease...
A pair of complementary bases (chemical units that form DNA) in a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule.
In DNA, the base adenine (A) always pairs with thymine (T) and the base cytosine (C) always pairs with guanine (G).
Julia Hill reviews 'The Lion's Mouth Opens', a moving portrait of Huntington's Disease...
Residents of noisy and high-crime neighbourhoods are over a decade older biologically compared with those who live in low-crime areas, according to recent research...
by Arit Udoh
Latin American women are less likely to have breast cancer because of an inherited genetic trait, a study suggests...
by Siobhan Chan
Bacteria with two extra synthetic DNA bases in their genome have been created in the lab for the first time...
by Rhys Baker
The world's first fully-functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created in an international seven-year effort...
IBM and the New York Genome Centre have teamed up to announce the latest weapon in the fight against cancer - Watson the supercomputer....
Scientists have identified a gene called IRX3 which is associated with obesity and may emerge as a serious contender as the most important 'fat gene' yet discovered...
The media likes to push the idea that the obesity epidemic is fuelled entirely by our increasingly well-fed and sedentary lives, which makes the opportunity to hear solid evidence for the other side of the equation refreshing...
A biotech start-up that will develop genome-editing therapies has received US $43 million investment from three venture capital firms...
I could tell straight away that Canadian dentist Michael Zuk, who invested in John Lennon's rotten molar in the hope of cloning the great musician, is a big fan of Michael Crichton's 'Jurassic Park'...
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