"I watched fifteen hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to" ~health Article 12 171 words 30 votes
Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability ~music Article 794 words 10 votes
Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue ~humanities.history Link 6 votes
Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns ~science biology Article 728 words 35 votes
The uncharted world of emerging pathogens – In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air ~science biology Article 3381 words, published Feb 14 2024 8 votes
Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals ~humanities.history Link 15 votes
It's fair to describe schizophrenia as probably mostly genetic ~health.mental Article 2850 words 18 votes
The case of Donnie Moss ~books nsfw fiction science fiction Video 10:01, published Dec 16 2009 6 votes
The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health ~science biology Article 964 words 16 votes
Long presumed to have no heads at all, sea stars may be nothing but ~science biology.marine Article 1542 words 25 votes
Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine ~science biology Article 321 words 16 votes
Marriage between cousins and extended family members may soon be banned in Norway ~life relationships family Article 376 words 26 votes
Ancient Beat - A weekly newsletter about developments in the study of the ancient world ~humanities.history Article 896 words 9 votes
New amphibian family tree a leap forward in understanding frogs, shows they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought ~science biology Article 602 words 10 votes
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago ~science biology anthropology Article 668 words 51 votes
Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome ~science biology Article 1742 words 19 votes
The Pictish Problem - Genetics of Scotland ~humanities.history Video 36:04, published Aug 15 2023 18 votes
Is this the protein plant of the future? New study finds ‘sweetness gene’ that makes lupins tastier ~food Article 652 words 16 votes
The vanishing family: They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age ~health Article 7660 words, published Jul 20 2023 29 votes
Female California condors can reproduce without mating, joining a list that includes sharks, rays and lizards ~science Article 808 words, published Oct 28 2021 19 votes
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults ~science biology.neuro Article 1445 words 27 votes
Women in Denmark can now take a blood test to identify genetic foetal abnormalities in early pregnancy. But it has raised ethical questions. ~health healthcare Article 683 words 62 votes
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published ~science biology medicine Article 806 words, published Jun 14 2023 29 votes
Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half, says ‘thrilling’ study ~health medicine Article 741 words 11 votes
The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew) ~science biology.micro Article 4107 words, published Feb 3 2014 10 votes
Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives. ~health medicine Article 1264 words 6 votes
Gattaca is still pertinent twenty-five years later ~movies science fiction Article 2351 words, published Nov 24 2022 8 votes
Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease. ~health.mental Article 1561 words, published Jan 26 2023 9 votes
Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them. ~science biology Article 557 words, published Jan 21 2023 8 votes
Nobody has my condition but me - Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient. ~health medicine healthcare Article 5280 words, published Jan 23 2023 6 votes
Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research ~humanities archaeology anthropology ethics Article 2434 words, published Jan 19 2023 1 vote
Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal ~science Article 897 words 5 votes
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why. ~humanities.history Article 5505 words 3 votes
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland ~science anthropology Article 784 words 4 votes
In a first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth ~health medicine Article 939 words 5 votes
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are ~science anthropology Article 948 words 5 votes
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved ~science anthropology Article 446 words 12 votes
The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology ~science biology Article 1406 words, published Sep 28 2022 8 votes
The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke ~science Article 6832 words 10 votes
Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness ~science biology medicine Article 2391 words 4 votes