Every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose. Rates of abuse of these drugs have shot up over the past 15 years and continue to climb. Why is this happening? Is there hope for helping individuals with opioid addiction? From a scientific standpoint, addiction is a disease. And, as researchers who study opioid addiction, we’re hopeful about where epigenetics, […]
Dying, it turns out, is not like flipping a switch. Genes keep working for a while after a person dies, and scientists have used that activity in the lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine minutes. During the first 24 hours after death, genetic changes kick in across various human tissues, creating patterns […]
More than a century after Galton’s observation, twin studies remain a favorite tool of behavioral geneticists. Researchers have used twin studies to try to disentangle the environmental and genetic backgrounds of a cornucopia of traits, from aggression to intelligence to schizophrenia to alcohol dependence. But despite the popularity of twin studies, some psychologists have long […]
What is CRISPR? It’s a revolutionary gene-editing technique that enables scientists to snip out a piece of any organism’s DNA cheaply, quickly, and precisely — cutting and editing the code of life the way a film editor would splice an old film reel. Developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012, CRISPR offers great […]
It’s no secret that there’s a lot of debate about whether genetic modification is good or bad. Moreover, it’s a pretty common topic on news, debates, and podcasts. However, the truth is that there’s still no definitive answer that we can take for granted. And just like with all other things, there are genetic modification […]
Genetic modification is a way to change the characteristics of any living organism, such as plant, animal, or micro-organism, by transferring a different piece of DNA to it. In other words, the desired genes are removed from the DNA of one organism and transferred to the other. Curious to know more? Let’s learn some facts […]
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