9 stories tagged genetics, newest first.
55 points by optimalsolver | 79 comments
Phys.org news article on ancient DNA research suggesting Scandinavia's first Neolithic farmers violently replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population.
259 points by bookofjoe | 181 comments
ScienceAlert article on researchers identifying the genetic mutation behind orange fur in cats after a decades-long search.
83 points by gumby | 31 comments
A New York Times science article about the molluscum contagiosum virus that acquired a human gene; the capture shows a bot-block page instead.
359 points by MattSayar | 350 comments
Open-access PNAS Nexus journal article describing trisomic rescue in trisomy 21 cells by allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage with CRISPR-Cas9.
405 points by gudzpoz | 230 comments
University of Florida news article on research finding that violence experienced by Syrian refugees leaves epigenetic changes passed across generations.
407 points by amin | 170 comments
Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.
362 points by redbell | 235 comments
Science magazine news article (2016) reporting that about one in five genetics papers contain gene name errors caused by Microsoft Excel autoformatting.
473 points by keploy | 194 comments
Cosmos Magazine article reporting that a gene therapy restored hearing in children born with inherited deafness.
426 points by mikhael | 211 comments
New York Times article about a gene therapy that enabled an 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness to hear for the first time.