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20% of Your Genes Are Patented
Singularity Hub has a fascinating interview with Dr. David Koepsell, a J.D./Ph.D. who specializes in writing about the intersection between ethics and emerging technology. Koepsell’s book, Who Owns...
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US Government: Naturally Occurring Genes Should Not Be Patentable
The U.S. federal government has declared in a recently issued brief that naturally occurring genes should not be subject to patents, backing up a District Court judge who in March had struck down...
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DARPA Wants Genes With ‘Track Changes’
DARPA is hoping to develop a new, far-fetched technology that will be able to record the modifications made to a gene, similar to how “track changes” records versions of a Word document. And yes, there...
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Study: Human Immune System Boosted by Breeding With Neanderthals
New research suggests that modern humans may have inherited some of our immune system genes by interbreeding with closely-related non-homo sapiens. That is to say, our ancestors got it on with...
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Better, Faster, Stronger: Evolution of New Genes Seen in Lab for First Time
An international team of scientists has achieved one of the holy grails of evolutionary biology, documenting the creation of new genes in a living organism for the first time. After introducing a gene...
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All-Female Species Survives by Stealing DNA of Other Animals
When a class of animal is made up of only one gender, those animals tend to go extinct. That’s not the case with the bdelloid rotifers, which have been exclusively female for around 80 million years....
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Jurassic Park: Scientists Find Genetic Switch That Determines Gender
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where the scientist is explaining to Ian Malcolm that all the dinosaurs on the island are female because they deprive them of a specific hormone at a specific...
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Supreme Court Declares Victory for Common Sense, Denies Patents for Naturally...
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down some truly weird and sometimes downright awful decisions recently — the “corporations have civil rights just like people do” debacle springs to mind — but it’s...
View ArticleWe Know We Shouldn’t, But Can We Genetically Modify Geniuses?
Don’t worry, friends, no one’s going to start recreating Gattaca. But there is a team of scientists working on research for something called the Cognitive Genome Project, which seeks to explain the...
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20% of Your Genes Are Patented
Singularity Hub has a fascinating interview with Dr. David Koepsell, a J.D./Ph.D. who specializes in writing about the intersection between ethics and emerging technology. Koepsell’s book, Who Owns...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US Government: Naturally Occurring Genes Should Not Be Patentable
The U.S. federal government has declared in a recently issued brief that naturally occurring genes should not be subject to patents, backing up a District Court judge who in March had struck down...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DARPA Wants Genes With ‘Track Changes’
DARPA is hoping to develop a new, far-fetched technology that will be able to record the modifications made to a gene, similar to how “track changes” records versions of a Word document. And yes, there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Study: Human Immune System Boosted by Breeding With Neanderthals
New research suggests that modern humans may have inherited some of our immune system genes by interbreeding with closely-related non-homo sapiens. That is to say, our ancestors got it on with...
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Better, Faster, Stronger: Evolution of New Genes Seen in Lab for First Time
An international team of scientists has achieved one of the holy grails of evolutionary biology, documenting the creation of new genes in a living organism for the first time. After introducing a gene...
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All-Female Species Survives by Stealing DNA of Other Animals
When a class of animal is made up of only one gender, those animals tend to go extinct. That’s not the case with the bdelloid rotifers, which have been exclusively female for around 80 million years....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jurassic Park: Scientists Find Genetic Switch That Determines Gender
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where the scientist is explaining to Ian Malcolm that all the dinosaurs on the island are female because they deprive them of a specific hormone at a specific...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Supreme Court Declares Victory for Common Sense, Denies Patents for Naturally...
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down some truly weird and sometimes downright awful decisions recently — the “corporations have civil rights just like people do” debacle springs to mind — but it’s...
View ArticleWe Know We Shouldn’t, But Can We Genetically Modify Geniuses?
Don’t worry, friends, no one’s going to start recreating Gattaca. But there is a team of scientists working on research for something called the Cognitive Genome Project, which seeks to explain the...
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