Seahorses are Weird, and Their Genome Knows Why
Male pregnancy. A long, tube-shaped mouth with no teeth. A body covered with bony plates. These are the odd, quintessential features of seahorses, but why? Scientists dove into this question…
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Penn Scientists Use CRISPR for First Time to Correct Clotting in Newborn and Adult Mice
CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful genome editing tool, is showing promise for efficient correction of disease-causing mutations. For the first time, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…
Our Brains Have A Basic Algorithm That Enables Our Intelligence, Scientists Say
Our brains have a basic algorithm that enables us to not just recognize a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but the intelligence to ponder the broader implications of a bountiful harvest as…
Breakthrough As Gene-Editing Technique Restores Sight To Blind Animals
Blind animals have had their vision partially restored using a revolutionary DNA editing technique that scientists say could in future be applied to a range of devastating genetic diseases. The…
How Mammary Glands Appeared In The Course Of Evolution
A joint team of geneticists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, demonstrated that the emergence of mammary glands in…
Unlocking Big Genetic Data Sets
The same algorithms that personalize movie recommendations and extract topics from oceans of text could bring doctors closer to diagnosing, treating and preventing disease on the basis of an individual’s…