Researchers have discovered that learned behaviors can be inherited for multiple generations in C. elegans, transmitted from parent to progeny via eggs and sperm cells. …read more Source:: Science
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Alzheimer’s-like symptoms reversed in mice
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•A diet containing compounds found in green tea and carrots reversed Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in mice genetically programmed to develop the disease. …read more Source:: Science
Ingestible ‘bacteria on a chip’ could help diagnose disease
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•Researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems. …read more Source:: Science
Cell therapy could improve brain function for Alzheimer’s disease
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•Inhibitory interneurons are particularly important for managing brain rhythms. Researchers have uncovered the therapeutic benefits of genetically improving these interneurons and transplanting them into the brain of a mouse model …read more Source:: Science
Nature or nurture? Innate social behaviors in the mouse brain
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•The brain circuitry that controls innate, or instinctive, behaviors such as mating and fighting was thought to be genetically hardwired. Not so, neuroscientists now say. …read more Source:: Science
Britain gives scientist go-ahead to genetically modify human embryos
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•LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – – Scientists in Britain have been give the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique that some say could …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
U.S. clears genetically modified salmon for human consumption
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•CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Thursday cleared the way for a type of genetically engineered Atlantic salmon to be farmed for human consumption – the first such approval …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Genetically modified embryos ‘essential’ for science, experts say
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•LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists should be allowed to genetically modify human embryos because such experiments are essential to deepen understanding of basic biology, an international group of science and ethics …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Genetically modified diamondback moth offers pest control hope
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•LONDON – Scientists in Britain say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an invasive species of moth that causes serious pest damage to cabbages, kale, canola …read more Source:: UKScienceNews