Computing has made it possible to create a synthetic living cell. Researchers at J Craig Venter Institute were successfully able to transplant genetic software to the host cell which would then grow naturally but will behave as dictated by the artificial DNA.
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Mankind has reached to a level of creating technology powered [...]

The emerging genetic engineering has a new technique called IVF to eradicate diseases caused in the offspring due to inheritance from parents. Recently Scientists from UK have produced four macaque monkeys named Mito, Tracker, Spindler and Spindy using IVF technique and all of these share three biological parents and all of them are proved to [...]

Last week, I read an article titled “Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals” in Scientific American August 2009 Edition. The article has put forward various possible reasons which might have caused the extinction of the Neandertals. It has also disclosed some interesting findings about Neandertals.
Neandertal (Homo Neanderthalensis) is a species which roamed on earth for nearly [...]

The “Epigenetics” is the idea that human genes have memory in them due to which the situations or circumstances faced by your grand parents or distant ancestors may directly affect you even though you did not experience those conditions.
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Atavisms are the genetic traits of distant ancestors that reappear in the modern day. In order for the trait to be an atavism, an organism’s parents can’t have the trait, and neither can the recent ancestors.
In the image below is Jiaxue (from China) who is an example for Atavism. She inherited the genes from chimpanzee. [...]