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This Mutated Fish Can Now Withstand Absurd Levels Of Toxic Waste

4 years ago

This Mutated Fish Can Now Withstand Absurd Levels Of Toxic Waste

We Were Wrong About HIV’s ‘Patient Zero’

5 years ago

We Were Wrong About HIV’s ‘Patient Zero’

George Dvorsky

Mysterious ‘Hybrid’ Animal Discovered In 18,000-Year-Old Cave Art

5 years ago

Mysterious ‘Hybrid’ Animal Discovered In 18,000-Year-Old Cave Art

Why Storing Tomatoes In The Fridge Is A Bad Idea

5 years ago

Why Storing Tomatoes In The Fridge Is A Bad Idea

World’s First ‘Three Parent Baby’ Born Thanks To A New Fertility Technique

5 years ago

World’s First ‘Three Parent Baby’ Born Thanks To A New Fertility Technique

George Dvorsky

We Just Found Out There’s More Than One Species Of Giraffe

5 years ago

We Just Found Out There’s More Than One Species Of Giraffe

Maddie Stone

Scientists Are Rethinking The Role Climate Plays In Human Evolution

5 years ago

Scientists Are Rethinking The Role Climate Plays In Human Evolution

Mice Bred Over Several Decades To Get Wasted For Science

5 years ago

Mice Bred Over Several Decades To Get Wasted For Science

English Bulldogs Have Reached A Genetic Dead End

5 years ago

English Bulldogs Have Reached A Genetic Dead End

DNA Resolves 80-Year-Old Mystery Behind Belgian King’s Death

5 years ago

DNA Resolves 80-Year-Old Mystery Behind Belgian King’s Death

Jennifer Ouellette

We’ve Been Wrong About Lichen For 150 Years

5 years ago

We’ve Been Wrong About Lichen For 150 Years

What Are the Odds You’ll Meet Your Evil Twin?

5 years ago

What Are the Odds You’ll Meet Your Evil Twin?

New Cancer Therapy Leaves Three Dead

5 years ago

New Cancer Therapy Leaves Three Dead

George Dvorsky

10 Scientific And Tech Visionaries Who Experimented With Drugs

5 years ago

10 Scientific And Tech Visionaries Who Experimented With Drugs

Robbie Gonzalez

8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution

Science & Health

5 years ago

8 Incredible Facts You May Not Know About Human Evolution

Living Bacteria Can Now Store Data

5 years ago

Living Bacteria Can Now Store Data

George Dvorsky

We’re One Step Closer To Growing Human Organs Inside Of Pigs

5 years ago

We’re One Step Closer To Growing Human Organs Inside Of Pigs

George Dvorsky

Looks Like We Were Wrong About The Origin Of Dogs

5 years ago

Looks Like We Were Wrong About The Origin Of Dogs

George Dvorsky

New Details Emerge About The Plan To Build An Artificial Human Genome

5 years ago

New Details Emerge About The Plan To Build An Artificial Human Genome

George Dvorsky

Want To Stay Healthy? You’ll Need To Become A Human-Animal Hybrid

5 years ago

Want To Stay Healthy? You’ll Need To Become A Human-Animal Hybrid

George Dvorsky

A Flaw Has Been Detected In A Ground-Breaking Fertility Treatment

5 years ago

A Flaw Has Been Detected In A Ground-Breaking Fertility Treatment

Genetic Clues Reveal How Giraffes Got Their Long Necks

5 years ago

Genetic Clues Reveal How Giraffes Got Their Long Necks

Researchers Just Solved One Of The Biggest Problems For World Hunger

5 years ago

Researchers Just Solved One Of The Biggest Problems For World Hunger

Ria Misra

Experts Held Secret Meeting On Building A Human Genome

5 years ago

Experts Held Secret Meeting On Building A Human Genome

Genetic Analysis Of 250 Burgers Reveals Some Unsavoury Surprises

5 years ago

Genetic Analysis Of 250 Burgers Reveals Some Unsavoury Surprises

How The Venus Flytrap Became Predator Instead Of Prey

5 years ago

How The Venus Flytrap Became Predator Instead Of Prey

Jennifer Ouellette

Why Your Labrador Retriever Loses Its Mind Around Food

5 years ago

Why Your Labrador Retriever Loses Its Mind Around Food

CRISPR Just Got One Step Closer To Editing Human Genes With Ease

5 years ago

CRISPR Just Got One Step Closer To Editing Human Genes With Ease

George Dvorsky

Addiction Could Be More Like A Learning Disorder Than A Disease

5 years ago

Addiction Could Be More Like A Learning Disorder Than A Disease

Jennifer Ouellette

Chinese Scientists Genetically Modify Human Embryos Again

5 years ago

Chinese Scientists Genetically Modify Human Embryos Again

George Dvorsky

Gene-Editing Attacks Can’t Defeat HIV As Easily As We Thought

5 years ago

Gene-Editing Attacks Can’t Defeat HIV As Easily As We Thought

George Dvorsky

Orphan Black’s Crazy Bioweapon Actually Exists In Nature

5 years ago

Orphan Black’s Crazy Bioweapon Actually Exists In Nature

HIV Genes Successfully Edited Out Of Immune Cells

5 years ago

HIV Genes Successfully Edited Out Of Immune Cells

This Technicolor Mutant Zebrafish Is Synthetic Biology’s Craziest Creation Yet

5 years ago

This Technicolor Mutant Zebrafish Is Synthetic Biology’s Craziest Creation Yet

Multiple Gene Testing For Breast Cancer Raises Ethical Concerns

5 years ago

Multiple Gene Testing For Breast Cancer Raises Ethical Concerns

Behold The Transgenic Limes Of The Future

5 years ago

Behold The Transgenic Limes Of The Future

Esther Inglis-Arkell

Australian Researchers Discover Family Blood Cancer Gene

5 years ago

Australian Researchers Discover Family Blood Cancer Gene

Scientists Have Discovered The First Gene Responsible For Grey Hair

5 years ago

Scientists Have Discovered The First Gene Responsible For Grey Hair

Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Use Light To Alter Memories Of Cokehead Mice

5 years ago

Scientists Use Light To Alter Memories Of Cokehead Mice

George Dvorsky

A Shocking Number Of Dogs In Shelters Are Misidentified As ‘Pit Bulls’

5 years ago

A Shocking Number Of Dogs In Shelters Are Misidentified As ‘Pit Bulls’

George Dvorsky

Having Neanderthal DNA Linked To Depression And Nicotine Addiction

5 years ago

Having Neanderthal DNA Linked To Depression And Nicotine Addiction

Esther Inglis-Arkell

Bloodthirsty Ticks Have A Seriously Weird Genome

5 years ago

Bloodthirsty Ticks Have A Seriously Weird Genome

What Happens When You Keep Fruit Flies In Total Darkness For 60 Years

5 years ago

What Happens When You Keep Fruit Flies In Total Darkness For 60 Years

Esther Inglis-Arkell

It’s Time To Declare War On Mosquitoes

5 years ago

It’s Time To Declare War On Mosquitoes

Scientists Have Finally Found A Biological Process Behind Schizophrenia

5 years ago

Scientists Have Finally Found A Biological Process Behind Schizophrenia

First Successful Gene-Editing In Live Mammals Brings Us Closer To Human Treatments

5 years ago

First Successful Gene-Editing In Live Mammals Brings Us Closer To Human Treatments

George Dvorsky

Are Sperm Banks In The Business Of Eugenics?

5 years ago

Are Sperm Banks In The Business Of Eugenics?

George Dvorsky

The US FDA Just Approved Transgenic Chickens That Make Medicine

5 years ago

The US FDA Just Approved Transgenic Chickens That Make Medicine

George Dvorsky

The Only Way To Save The Northern White Rhino Is A Jurassic Park-Style Intervention

5 years ago

The Only Way To Save The Northern White Rhino Is A Jurassic Park-Style Intervention

Jason Gilchrist

This Microbial Animal Threw The Evolutionary Rulebook Out The Window

5 years ago

This Microbial Animal Threw The Evolutionary Rulebook Out The Window

One ‘Supergene’ May Determine Mating Strategies For These Male Birds

5 years ago

One ‘Supergene’ May Determine Mating Strategies For These Male Birds

Asking Men When Their Voice Broke Helped Find Genes For Start Of Puberty

5 years ago

Asking Men When Their Voice Broke Helped Find Genes For Start Of Puberty

Science & Health

5 years ago

Your Cheatin’ Heart? More Like Your Cheatin’ Brain

The Bread Lab’s Mission To Breed The Best New Wheats

6 years ago

The Bread Lab’s Mission To Breed The Best New Wheats

Pioneering Gene-Editing Therapy Reverses Cancer In Baby Girl

6 years ago

Pioneering Gene-Editing Therapy Reverses Cancer In Baby Girl

This Is How Plants Become Zombies

6 years ago

This Is How Plants Become Zombies

Kiona Smith-Strickland

A Few Mutant Genes Can Turn A Stomach Bug Into The Black Death

6 years ago

A Few Mutant Genes Can Turn A Stomach Bug Into The Black Death

Jennifer Ouellette

DNA Repair Earned The Nobel Prize In Chemistry, And Here’s Why

6 years ago

DNA Repair Earned The Nobel Prize In Chemistry, And Here’s Why

Kiona Smith-Strickland

Report: DNA Markers Accurately Predict Male Homosexuality

6 years ago

Report: DNA Markers Accurately Predict Male Homosexuality

This Year’s Nobel Prize In Chemistry Honours The Discoverers Of DNA Repair Mechanisms

6 years ago

This Year’s Nobel Prize In Chemistry Honours The Discoverers Of DNA Repair Mechanisms

Kiona Smith-Strickland

You Think That Person’s Hot Because Of Experience, Not Just Genetics

6 years ago

You Think That Person’s Hot Because Of Experience, Not Just Genetics

Mapping The 88 Million Ways That Humans Are Genetically Different

6 years ago

Mapping The 88 Million Ways That Humans Are Genetically Different

George Dvorsky

Viruses Are Alive, And They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cells

6 years ago

Viruses Are Alive, And They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cells

Kiona Smith-Strickland

Why Some Girls In The Dominican Republic Grow Penises At Puberty

6 years ago

Why Some Girls In The Dominican Republic Grow Penises At Puberty

Scientists Have Drafted A Complete Tree Of Life

6 years ago

Scientists Have Drafted A Complete Tree Of Life

Maddie Stone

Your DNA Can Teach Us About Ancient History

6 years ago

Your DNA Can Teach Us About Ancient History

Maddie Stone

Here’s The Exact Way That The Ice Bucket Challenge Helped ALS Research

6 years ago

Here’s The Exact Way That The Ice Bucket Challenge Helped ALS Research

Jennifer Ouellette

Seahorse Dads Do Much More Than Just Shelter Their Babies While Pregnant

6 years ago

Seahorse Dads Do Much More Than Just Shelter Their Babies While Pregnant

We Thought These Microscopic Invertebrates Never Had Sex. Maybe We Were Wrong.

6 years ago

We Thought These Microscopic Invertebrates Never Had Sex. Maybe We Were Wrong.

‘Metabolic Switch’ Toggles Our Cells To Store Or Burn Fat

6 years ago

‘Metabolic Switch’ Toggles Our Cells To Store Or Burn Fat

First Complete Octopus Genome Will Unlock Cephalopod Secrets

6 years ago

First Complete Octopus Genome Will Unlock Cephalopod Secrets

Ancient Humans Had More DNA Than Us

6 years ago

Ancient Humans Had More DNA Than Us

‘Virgin Births’ Won’t Save The Smalltooth Sawfish From Extinction

6 years ago

‘Virgin Births’ Won’t Save The Smalltooth Sawfish From Extinction

The Plan To Feed The World By Hacking Photosynthesis

6 years ago

The Plan To Feed The World By Hacking Photosynthesis

Maddie Stone

What Made The Y Chromosome So Tiny?

6 years ago

What Made The Y Chromosome So Tiny?

Diane Kelly

Scientists Hope Tiny Asexual Animals Can Teach Us Why Sex Works

6 years ago

Scientists Hope Tiny Asexual Animals Can Teach Us Why Sex Works

Diane Kelly

11 Species Of Chameleon Masqueraded As One

6 years ago

11 Species Of Chameleon Masqueraded As One

Kiona Smith-Strickland

Don’t Get Too Excited If A DNA Test Says You Have Royal Ancestors

6 years ago

Don’t Get Too Excited If A DNA Test Says You Have Royal Ancestors

Genetic Engineers Are Building A Biological Kill Switch

6 years ago

Genetic Engineers Are Building A Biological Kill Switch

Scientists To Sequence Lil Bub’s Genome

6 years ago

Scientists To Sequence Lil Bub’s Genome

Kiona Smith-Strickland

Scientists Edited A Human Embryo — But It Didn’t Go Very Well

6 years ago

Scientists Edited A Human Embryo — But It Didn’t Go Very Well

Bryan Lufkin

After 150,000 Years In A Cave, A Neanderthal Skull Looks Like This

6 years ago

After 150,000 Years In A Cave, A Neanderthal Skull Looks Like This

Harvard’s ‘Frankenstein’: The 1970s Controversy Over Mixing DNA

6 years ago

Harvard’s ‘Frankenstein’: The 1970s Controversy Over Mixing DNA

The Problem With Those DNA-Based Mugshots

6 years ago

The Problem With Those DNA-Based Mugshots

Adam Clark Estes

After Thousands Of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up

6 years ago

After Thousands Of Years, Earth’s Frozen Life Forms Are Waking Up

Science & Health

6 years ago

This Video Is The Best Explanation Yet Of How Genomes Really Work

Sarah Zhang

How Do I Look In These Genes? The Science Of DNA Dating

6 years ago

How Do I Look In These Genes? The Science Of DNA Dating

Brendan O'Connor

Of Course 23andMe’s Plan Has Been To Sell Your Genetic Data All Along

6 years ago

Of Course 23andMe’s Plan Has Been To Sell Your Genetic Data All Along

How A New DNA Test Can Distinguish Between Identical Twins

6 years ago

How A New DNA Test Can Distinguish Between Identical Twins

Why I’d Let Google Put My Genome In The Cloud

7 years ago

Why I’d Let Google Put My Genome In The Cloud

The Many Ways We’re Using Mutant Mosquitos To Eradicate Disease

7 years ago

The Many Ways We’re Using Mutant Mosquitos To Eradicate Disease

Adam Clark Estes

Federal Court Of Australia: Patents On Genes Are Totally Fine

7 years ago

Federal Court Of Australia: Patents On Genes Are Totally Fine

The World’s First Handheld DNA Amplifier Is A Genetics Lab In A Box

7 years ago

The World’s First Handheld DNA Amplifier Is A Genetics Lab In A Box

Robert Sorokanich

How Lizard Tails Could Help Scientists Study Human Limb Regeneration

7 years ago

How Lizard Tails Could Help Scientists Study Human Limb Regeneration

Adam Clark Estes

DIY Diagnosis: How One Woman Uncovered Her Own Genetic Flaw

7 years ago

DIY Diagnosis: How One Woman Uncovered Her Own Genetic Flaw

Ed Yong - Mosaic

How The Internet Is Helping A Father Fight An Illness Unknown To Science

7 years ago

How The Internet Is Helping A Father Fight An Illness Unknown To Science

There’s A Plan To Breed Bald Chickens That Can Survive Global Warming

7 years ago

There’s A Plan To Breed Bald Chickens That Can Survive Global Warming

New Software Can Spot Rare Genetic Diseases From Family Photographs

7 years ago

New Software Can Spot Rare Genetic Diseases From Family Photographs

Jamie Condliffe

Mystery Illnesses Could Now Be Diagnosed With A Rapid DNA Test

7 years ago

Mystery Illnesses Could Now Be Diagnosed With A Rapid DNA Test

Scientists Have Created ‘Alien’ DNA

7 years ago

Scientists Have Created ‘Alien’ DNA

Adam Clark Estes