It’s Beautiful! Mother Passed Her Exact Hair Trait Down To Her Newborn Daughter
A heartwarming photo of a mother and her newborn daughter, both sharing the same striking hair feature, has captured the internet’s attention and sparked a conversation about genetics. The mother sports a unique 2-inch wide patch of grey hair starting from her forehead and running down the center of...
UCSD School of Medicine Awarded $8 Million to Understand Genetic Foundations of Addiction
The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has received a hefty grant to study addiction and its genetic basis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has approved a five-year, $8 million grant for the school to study the genetics of substance use disorders and ultimately aim to understand why some people are more susceptible to addiction than others.
NASA Ranks Dystopian Thriller As The Most Accurate Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made
Usually, there’s no fiction involved in NASA’s science, but they got into the sci-fi game by naming the most accurate science fiction movie ever made, calling the future dystopian Gattaca a realistic depiction of a future society. The film centers on a humanity so obsessed with perfection that they edit their offspring’s genes to give them near-perfect abilities. At the time it was made, gene editing was still a fictional concept, but since then, processes like CRISPR have made it a very real possibility.
Tibetan women have quickly evolved to thrive in low oxygen and high altitudes
Imagine, if you can, a place where every lungful of air doesn't quite fulfill your body's needs. Yet, despite such challenging conditions, Tibetan women residing on the high Tibetan Plateau with low oxygen have been surviving and thriving for over 10,000 years. Now that's what you call an art of survival. Tibetan survival code The credit for unraveling this mystery goes to a team led by Cynthia Beall, a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Case Western Reserve University. The study uncovers how Tibetan women's physiological adaptability allows them to reproduce efficiently in such an oxygen-poor environment -- an environment that would wind most...