While gene editing offers the exciting potential for disease therapies, using it on human embryos opens up a can of worms.
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How ‘junk’ DNA threw a spanner in the works.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
How many times do people make the comment about which parent a child takes after. So what does genetics say?
Forget the pith helmet and butterfly net. Discovering biodiversity now is much more about metagenomics and the 0’s and 1’s of digital databases.
The how and the when of dog domestication are fairly settled. As for the where: now DNA says Fido traces his roots back to wolves in Central Asia that lingered around people’s camps millennia ago.
The new ‘science play’ Photograph 51 is hot on the heels of a host of others, including Stoppard’s The Hard Problem. Why are audiences attracted to these right now?
A new study has looked at the ‘father effect’ in epigenetics.
The discovery made by three Nobel Prize winning chemists is one of biology’s most important safeguards against imperfection in DNA.
Cells must repair the thousands of bits of DNA damage they incur every day. These cellular mechanisms fend off cancerous tumors, and cancer researchers are working to harness their power.
The recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry showed that DNA is far from static. Rather, it is bombarded by damaging forces, but our bodies know how to repair these precious strands.
The 1000 Genome Project has revealed the genetic variations that exist among people around the world, and discovered that some people are missing many genes.
There’s an issue of impunity around sexual violence in conflict zones. Here’s how science could help us solve it.
The origin of life is still an unsolved riddle. How were life’s building blocks first assembled?
A DNA-powered PC may not be on the horizon, but DNA can still compute even if it can’t build a computer.
While many of the fruits of the human genome project could be decades away, DNA sequencing of drug-resistant bacteria has been striding forwards
Until more is understood, it’s sensible to limit experimentation that would make changes to germ line cells that would be passed on to future generations.
It takes a careful balance between art and science to illustrate the processes that take place within our cells and explain the complexities of epigenetics.
What if you could take a simple test to reveal your individual risk of developing a range of cancers and hundreds of other diseases?
Using DNA testing, researchers find that most elephant poaching is happening in two spots – crucial information to stopping the flow of ivory out of Africa.
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser - Public Health Genomics, Monash University
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Head, Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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Professor of English, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Population, Medical and Evolutionary Genomics, Lund University
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Deputy Director and ARC Future Fellow, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
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Author and Honorary Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
