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'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome

The 5D memory crystal enables the creation of a lasting genomic repository for the potential restoration of complex organisms.

TechRadar

Pharma giant Regeneron is spending $119.5M on the world’s largest, most diverse genetic database using DNA from patient volunteers

The Fortune 500 pharma giant will sequence the exomes of 10 million people, with the goal of developing new therapies and more.

Fortune

From anecdotes to AI tools, how doctors make medical decisions is evolving with technology

The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal experience of individual clinicians toward a formal scientific discipline.

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World-first study reveals the mysteries of the desert-dwelling marsupial mole

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand.

The Conversation

1,500 ancient European genomes reveal previously hidden waves of migration, study finds

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration.

LiveScience

Modern human ancestors and Neanderthals mated during a 7,000-year-long 'pulse,' 2 new studies reveal

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

LiveScience

As Australia’s giant trees succumb to fire or drought, we’re racing to preserve their vital genetic data

Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes.

The Conversation

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South Africa’s new research guidelines are not a green light for heritable human genome editing

The recently updated South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines have been a recent cause of concern, with some researchers and bioethicists interpreting them as allowing what’s known as heritable human genome editing.

The Conversation

Researchers find how cells recognize, repair DNA damage

After all, the cell must repeat its whole genetic material, including billions of genetic letters, before it can divide. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Meet Evo, an AI model that can predict the effects of gene mutations with 'unparalleled accuracy'

Evo is a large language model that is not trained on words but on the genomes of millions of microbes. It can accurately predict the effects of mutations.

LiveScience

Plants and animals with bigger genomes grow less efficiently – new research helps explain why they never died out

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in each cell – what we refer to as genome size – spans an incredible range across the tree of life.

The Conversation

South Africa amended its research guidelines to allow for heritable human genome editing

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit the use of genome editing to create genetically modified children.

The Conversation

Genome sequencing developed to trace COVID is now protecting babies in intensive care from infectious diseases

Anyone who has spent time inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) knows it’s intense.

The Conversation

Scientists say ‘pickled’ fossil could help bring back extinct Australian marsupial

Breakthrough has potential to revolutionise wildlife conservation

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Most complete Tasmanian tiger genome yet pieced together from 110-year-old pickled head

Researchers working with Colossal Biosciences have assembled a near-complete Tasmanian tiger genome and developed artificial reproductive technologies that could help de-extinct the species.

The Guardian - AU

How a ‘putrid’ find in a museum cupboard could be the key to bringing the Tasmanian tiger back to life

A well-preserved thylacine head was a gruesome sight – but it also contained RNA molecules crucial to reconstructing the extinct animal’s genome

The Independent UK

Genome study cracks mystery of Japan’s first inhabitants

Majority of early immigrants to Japan came from Korean peninsula, study finds

Salon

Why the internet is obsessed with crabs

Does carcinization mean humans will one day grow pincers? Not exactly, but the concept is still fascinating

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Scientists map the genome of Australian ‘punk’ fish that prefers to walk instead of swim

Information ‘blueprint’ of the spotted handfish could aid monitoring, captive breeding and protection efforts, scientists say

Inverse

This Year’s Nobel Prize In Medicine Hold Promise In Treating Numerous Diseases

Scientists regard microRNAs as master regulators of the genome due to their ability to bind to and alter the expression of many protein-coding RNAs.

Medical Daily

Your Cells Inherit Energy From Mother; Study Offers Insights On Mitochondrial Disorders

The researchers discovered that humans inherit the DNA inside their mitochondria from their mothers alone, with all traces of their father's mitochondrial genome destroyed the moment sperm joins the egg.

The Conversation

MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers are learning to treat disease by harnessing how it controls genes

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the 1980s, it was a fascinating diversion from what for decades had been called the central dogma of molecular biology.

The Guardian - UK

NHS England to screen 100,000 babies for more than 200 genetic conditions

Experts say sequencing whole genome of newborns will be ‘transformational’ in earlier diagnosis and treatment

Reason

DIY Genome Editing at Only $2 a Pop

Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.

LiveScience

Human genome stored inside near-indestructible '5D memory crystal' that could survive to the end of the universe

The record-breaking crystal will act as a DNA time capsule that could be used to bring back humanity after our extinction, researchers say. But not everyone is convinced.

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