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Estonia Wants To DNA Test Its Citizens To Offer Personalised Life Advice
From its perch on the Baltic Sea, the tiny former Soviet nation of Estonia has become an unlikely leader in all things digital. Its government has already embraced blockchain, declared Internet access a basic human right, and embarked on a massive undertaking to become a “digital society” where everything from identity to voting is digitised…
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The Scientists Who Sparked CRISPR Panic Couldn’t Reproduce Their Study Results
Last year, a study claiming that the gene-editing technique CRISPR might actually be dangerous whipped labs around the biotech world into a frenzy. Researchers found that when they used CRISPR to cure blindness by changing DNA in mice, it resulted in not just a few but more than a thousand unintended effects on other genes.
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How Scientists Could Use DNA Sequencing To Identify Alien Life
Here’s a riddle: If an alien life form is, well, alien, how will we know what it is? DNA and RNA are the building blocks of life on Earth, but the molecules of life might differ substantially on another planet. So if scientists combing, say, the potentially habitable waters of Jupiter’s moon Europa were to…
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23andMe Data Reveals Genes Linked To Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Severe Morning Sickness
Pregnancy is hard on the body. But for women with two specific genes, it may be especially difficult.