Medicine - Health
Create mouse 'great athlete'
Swiss scientists have just created a mouse with muscles twice as powerful as normal mice by taking one of its genes.
Genetic Modification
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Medicine - Health
Producing blood proteins from transgenic rice
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, researchers describe rice grains that can produce large amounts of a blood protein call…
Medicine - Health
Genetically modified order helps detect cancer early
Scientists say the order of genetic modification in cancer cells is the key to early diagnosis and identification of drugs that specifically treat this disease.
Cancer
'Super cells' defeat cancer, infection and aging
People are suffering from many diseases: multidrug-resistant viruses, cancer, radiation, climate change; as well as always wishing to be young, long-lived.
Cancer
Use genetically algae to treat cancer
Scientists have successfully created a genetically engineered algae that can kill 90% of cancer cells without harming other healthy cells.
Cancer
The first 'genetically modified' baby was born
The first child in the UK was genetically impacted to not suffer from breast cancer like those in his mother's recently married family in London on January 9.
Flu epidemic
Find out the origin of the deadly strain of H7N9
The H7N9 influenza virus strain has a combination of genes between East Asian wild birds and farmed chickens in Shanghai city, Zhejiang province and China's Jiangsu prov…
Flu epidemic
H5N1 can spread through the air
Half a year ago, a European study aimed at creating variant versions of bird flu sparked a wave of controversy. Opponents call this
Flu epidemic
Genetically modified poultry does not transmit the H5N1 virus
According to a study published in the journal Science on January 13, European scientists have succeeded in creating genetically modified chickens that do not transmit th…
New technology
Super soldier
From the legendary character Beowulf to Captain America (in the film Captain America: The First Avenger), the idea of super soldiers has always existed in the imaginat…