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Scientist Who Made Genetically Edited Babies Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

Scientist Who Made Genetically Edited Babies Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

The Chinese scientist who broached moral and ethical codes by creating genetically edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison. The Chinese courts declared that He Jiankui was guilty of “illegal medical practices” in their decision, per The New York Times. Though the trial was closed to the public, the court made sure […]

4y ago

Rogue Scientist Plans To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth In Two Years

Rogue Scientist Plans To Resurrect Woolly Mammoth In Two Years

A geneticist from Harvard University plans to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth in two years by combing key genetic traits of the extinct creature with DNA from an endangered Asian elephant. Rogue geneticist George Church announced his plan to create a hybrid woolly mammoth embryo this week using advanced technology that doesn’t exist quite yet, […]

7y ago

Dog Cloning Lab In South Korea Will Clone Fido For $100,000 [Video]

Dog Cloning Lab In South Korea Will Clone Fido For $100,000 [Video]

It might sound like something out a cheap sci-fi flick, but there truly is a dog cloning lab in South Korea. The facility prides itself on performing commercial dog cloning services, and believe it or not, it’s a real thing. Pet owners the world over have utilized the facility to preserve their beloved pets in […]

8y ago

Girls Grow A Penis At Puberty And Turn Into Boys In This Isolated Caribbean Village

Girls Grow A Penis At Puberty And Turn Into Boys In This Isolated Caribbean Village

There’s a remote village in Barahona Province of the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic where one in 90 girls turn into boys when they reach puberty, and it’s a natural genetic condition. The locals call these children “guevedoces,” which literally means “penis at 12,” but the medical term for the condition is psuedohermaphroditism. The […]

9y ago

Did Bobby Flay’s Wife Perfectly Time The Huge Flying ‘Cheater’ Banner When He Was Getting A Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame?

Did Bobby Flay’s Wife Perfectly Time The Huge Flying ‘Cheater’ Banner When He Was Getting A Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame?

Bobby Flay became the first ever celebrity chef to get his very own star on the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, he must have left the venue with a bitter aftertaste owing to a rather perfectly timed, huge flying banner in the sky that read “CHEATER.” Bobby might have surely been elated for securing […]

9y ago

Women Breadwinners Unwittingly Push Their Husbands To Infidelity – Reverse Income Disparity Cause Of Extramarital Affairs?

Women Breadwinners Unwittingly Push Their Husbands To Infidelity – Reverse Income Disparity Cause Of Extramarital Affairs?

If a woman is the primary breadwinner in the house, her husband may be strongly inclined to cheat, indicates a new study. A new study that appears in the June issue of the American Sociological Review, suggests husbands who are 100 percent economically dependent on their spouse are the most susceptible ones to succumb to […]

9y ago

Tearless Onions: Japanese Scientists Have Developed A Less Pungent Variety That Also Won’t Cause Foul Breath

Tearless Onions: Japanese Scientists Have Developed A Less Pungent Variety That Also Won’t Cause Foul Breath

Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating onions that aren’t pungent. These onions will not make you cry and won’t leave you with “onion breath.” Japanese food manufacturing company House Foods Group has announced the development of a new tearless variety of onion that’s less pungent. This directly translates to no odors on your hands from […]

9y ago

23andMe: See How This Company Is Making Millions Selling Customer DNA Information To Big Pharma

23andMe: See How This Company Is Making Millions Selling Customer DNA Information To Big Pharma

The leading privately-held personal genetics company, 23andMe, has found a new source of revenue after the Food and Drug Administration asked it to stop providing health-related information based on customer’s DNA. With services limited to ancestry data, the number of subscribers began to dwindle. However, the company has found a new way to survive. It […]

10y ago

One Of Humankind’s Most Ancient Genetic Lineages Found In A Southern African Tribe

One Of Humankind’s Most Ancient Genetic Lineages Found In A Southern African Tribe

One of humankind’s most ancient genetic lineages has been successfully uncovered, after scientists sequenced the genes of the Southern African Khoisan tribespeople. This is the very first time that the genetic history of our species has been matched to the Earth’s climatic conditions, Science Daily reported. A research team led by Professor Stephan Christoph Schuster, […]

10y ago

Do Babies Cry At Night To Prevent Younger Siblings?

Do Babies Cry At Night To Prevent Younger Siblings?

Exhausted parents often ponder why babies cry at night and seem to have a reversed internal clock. One study claims that the night-time needs of an infant are a birth control mechanism on the part of the baby. Certainly, the study didn’t imply that babies cry at night to deliberately prevent their mothers from conceiving […]

10y ago

A blue lobster, no it’s not a joke, just a one in four million chance

A blue lobster, no it’s not a joke, just a one in four million chance

We’ve all heard the term “once in a blue moon”, but I’m betting you’ve never heard the Atlantic Provinces version… you know… “once in a blue lobster”. Given that it is a rare genetic mutation, one in four million, the chance that Blair Doucette would pull one of them up from his fishing grounds off […]

13y ago

8 Animals the movie Spliced has nothing on

8 Animals the movie Spliced has nothing on

Ah genetic modification, just the thing we all wanted to back when we were kids. It was also the time before Photoshop became the next best thing. So while you’re deciding on whether you are going to see the movie Spliced here’s a few genetics experiments gone wrong to occupy your time. via Holy Taco

14y ago

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