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Scientists Put A Human "Language Gene" Into Mice And Curious Things Unfolded
In a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what's been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably ...
East Asian human gene that allows adult humans to digest sugars in milk likely came from Neanderthals
A small team of computational and evolutionary biologists from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan ...
Upgraded CRISPR tool enables more seamless gene editing and improved disease modeling
Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...
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This Founder’s Gene Therapy Company Helped Blind Kids See Again
A new gene therapy from publicly traded company MeiraGTx ... AIPL1 defect with an MeiraGTx therapy that introduces a correct version of the gene, which causes their bodies to produce the ...
Miami Herald18d
Gene-edited ‘woolly mouse’ is big step in bringing back mammoth, Texas startup says
“To re-create the lighter coat colors observed in woolly mammoth mummies, Colossal woolly mice have a modified version of the gene MC1R, which regulates melanin production, that produces mice ...
Nature1mon
A human gene makes mice squeak differently — did it contribute to language?
To study the effects of the change, a neuroscientist in Darnell’s group, Yoko Tajima, used CRISPR gene editing to engineer mice to carry the human version of NOVA1. Exhaustive analysis ...