Are Your Genes Literally Keeping You Up At Night? Researchers Say They Might Be!
In New York, researchers at Rockefeller University say your genetic makeup can actually be keeping you awake at night. Due to a newly discovered...
Tough tooth to crack but researchers find a way to collect stem cells from...
In Nevada, researchers at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas developed a new method of extracting large numbers of stem cells from something...
Want to Know When You’ll Develop Alzheimer’s? Genetic Test Can Tell You
In the United Kingdom, researchers can use DNA from blood or saliva to analyze a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. We’ve talked about...
More Vitamin E could come in maize with new genetic findings
In New York, Cornell University scientists identified genes that control vitamin E content in maize grain, a finding that could lead to improving the...
Printing Medicine In Remote Clinics or Printing Needed Supplies in Space Could Be the...
In California, Synthetic Genomics developed a printing machine called Digital-to-Biological Converter that takes digital representations of DNA and prints them using chemicals that make...
NIH awards $18.9M for genome sequencing research in clinical care
In Washington D.C., the National Institutes of Health is giving $18.9 million for researchers that will help speed up genome sequencing in clinical care....
New method helps ID Lyme disease in early stages
In Colorado, researchers found a way to tell Lyme disease apart from the very similar southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI). Using mass spectrometry, they...
Game changer for Superfund clean-up efforts thanks to microbes
In Washington, the first large-scale experiment to clean up groundwater on a Superfund site using microbes proved that probiotics and natural microbes can significantly...
Faster genome tests can help save babies
In California, doctors at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego are now able to sequence babies genomes in 19.5 hours instead of the former...
23andMe seeking more funding to expand genetics research and products
In California, 23andMe is looking for more money to expand their genetics research and work on new products, but they aren’t ready to go...