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Banishing Blights on Bees
Scientists from The University of Texas, Austin, recently found genetic alterations in bacteria which live in bees’ guts to be successful at killing Varroa Mite, an Asian native mite that kills honey bees, as the […]
Genetic Manipulation – Ground-breaking or Unethical?
At times scientific development feels as if it’s hurtling along, with the rapid growth of technology allowing the science community to reach new heights that may have been unheard of only a few years ago. […]
Ethics in Science: A baby from 3 parents?
Ethics is an ever-present concern in science. No more so than when science clashes with human life itself in, for example euthanasia. That’s one of the concerns surrounding a treatment which has been developed to […]
Total Recall – The Science behind Genetic Memory
Have you ever known something without having a clue why? Well, memories, experiences and knowledge that we have never experienced or learnt ourselves can be inherited from our ancestors. This occurs through genetic or ancestral […]
Answering the big schizophrenia questions
More than 25 million people world wide are affected by schizophrenia. Highly hereditable, it is one of the most severe mental illnesses with a high economic burden on countries worldwide. Since Schizophrenia was first described […]
Science | Caution called for at UK genome project
We live in an age of subversion and sabotage, though not through your typical James Bond espionage, but data acquisition and hacking. Media mules Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, among other editors currently stand trial […]