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UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in giving access.
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How Should Scientists' Access To Health Databanks Be Managed?

Sep 06, 2019
Medical and genetic data from more than a million Americans are now in scientific databases. Some programs hoard the data, while others share widely with scientists, hoping to speed medical discovery.
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Researchers in Nigeria are participating in an African effort to develop a biobank that reflects the rich genetic diversity of Africa.
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Lack Of Diversity In Genetic Databases Hampers Research

Aug 22, 2019
Scientists around the world are working to correct a problem with genetic health information — too much of it is currently based on samples of Europeans.
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Human Genomics Research Has A Diversity Problem

Mar 21, 2019
Studies on the genetics of human diseases have focused largely on people of European descent. Researchers say this lack of diversity is bad science and exacerbates health inequities.
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A Przewalski mare with her foal at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland, in 2013. It turns out that Przewalski's horses are actually feral descendants of the first horses that humans are known to have domesticated, around 5,500 years ago.
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Why The Last 'Wild' Horses Really Aren't

Feb 22, 2018
A story from the journal Science suggests that the only "wild" horses in existence aren't actually wild at all but rather are the feral descendants of an early domestication.
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In 2003, <em>Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus</em>, also known as mimivirus, was the first giant virus to be described. It's larger than many bacteria, and was found in a water sample from a hospital cooling tower in England.
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In Giant Virus Genes, Hints About Their Mysterious Origin

Apr 06, 2017
They're the Godzillas of the virus world, pushing the limit of what is considered alive. Researchers are trying to figure out where they came from. (And no, they aren't known to make people sick.)
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In 2010, scientists plopped the genetic material of one <em>Mycoplasma</em> bacterium into another type to create the self-replicating cells shown above. Six years later, they've come out with an even simpler synthetic organism that has fewer genes.
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Scientists Build A Live, No-Frills Cell That Could Have A Big Future

Mar 24, 2016
In engineering the cell, researchers paired away nearly all genes that weren't essential to life. It might eventually serve as a basic framework for different sorts of cellular factories, they say.
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Neanderthals, represented here by a museum's reconstruction, had been living in Eurasia for 200,000 years when <em>Homo sapiens</em> first passed through, and the communities intermingled. The same genes that today play a role in allergies very likely fo
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Itchy Eyes? Sneezing? Maybe Blame That Allergy On Neanderthals

Jan 07, 2016
At least three genes that predispose some of us to hay fever and other allergies came from Neanderthal DNA, scientists say. The genes very likely boosted the immunity of our early ancestors.
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A juvenile California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides).
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Octopus Genome Offers Insights Into One Of Ocean's Cleverest Oddballs

Aug 12, 2015
Octopuses are cool. They can regrow lost arms, change the color of their skin, and are surprisingly smart. Scientists who sequenced the first octopus genome say it's nearly as big as a person's.
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The H1N1 swine flu virus kills some people, while others don't get very sick at all. A genetic variation offers one clue.
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A Single Gene May Determine Why Some People Get So Sick With The Flu

Mar 26, 2015
A single genetic mutation might decide who ends up in bed with the sniffles and who heads to the hospital, because it shuts down immune system molecules called interferons.
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Microbiologist Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley. She's co-inventor of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology — a tool that's recently made the snipping and splicing of genes much easier.
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Scientists Urge Temporary Moratorium On Human Genome Edits

Mar 20, 2015
Researchers who helped develop powerful techniques warn that tweaking the genome is now easy. More public debate's needed, they say, before making changes in genes passed from parent to child.
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