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First Sheep Cloned With ‘Good Fat’ Is Healthier For You

It sounds like something out of science fiction; splicing DNA from one animal into another to create some sort of genetic hybrid. But Peng Peng the sheep has made it science fact. The adorable newly cloned lamb has become the first sheep to have a bit of a worm spliced into him, making him the very first worm-sheep on the planet.


November 3, 2011
Science

There Is Hope For Your Craggy Face And Limp Muscles

Some lucky old mice at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have been given the gift of youth. Researchers reversed their age-related wrinkles, muscle wasting and cataracts, and it could lead to a fountain of youth for humans too.


October 25, 2011
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Self-Destructing Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever

Scientists have bred mosquitoes in Guatemala that will cause mosquito genocide when they mate with normal mosquitoes. The idea is to thwart disease spread by the insects, in this case dengue fever.


August 19, 2011
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Genetically Engineered Weed: There’s An App For That

A small Amsterdam startup called Medicinal Genomics, has analysed the marijuana plant down to its strands of DNA, and the company’s CEO says some analysis of the data will be available as an iPad app next year.


June 9, 2011
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Cows In China Are Now Producing Human Breast Milk

Amidst all the concern going around that cows’ milk is bad for you, Chinese scientists have found a way to fix the problem: By genetically engineering cows to produce human breast milk. Is soy milk just not in favour yet?