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Scientists have made early-stage human embryos using skin cell DNA fertilised with sperm

From the BBC News-2025-10-2:14:6:1

Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.

From the BBC News-2025-9-30:14:6:1

'Best news' for Huntington's disease community comes with unanswered questions

An experimental gene therapy seems to show potential to slow the debilitating progression of Huntington's disease, a European biotech company that developed the new treatment says.

From the CBC News-2025-9-27:14:6:1

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Oct 9 17:03Comprehensive Mutational Landscape of Yeast Mutator Strains Reveals the Genetic Basis of Mutational Signatures in Cancer by Lei Liu and others (MBE)
Oct 9 17:03Largest-Scale Genomic Resource Reconstructing the Genetic Origin, Population Structure, and Biological Adaptations of the Hui People by Guanglin He and others (MBE)
Oct 9 17:03Joint effects of balancing selection and population bottlenecks on the evolution of a regulatory region of human anti-viralAPOBEC3 by Naoko T Fujito and others (GBE)
Oct 9 17:03Chromosome-scale genomes show rapid diversification and ancient gene flow among bear species by T Brock Wooldridge and others (GBE)
Oct 8 20:00Correction for Quintero, The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty - (PNAS)
Oct 8 20:00Correction for Bawa et al., Prevalence of monogamy at the level of flowers in plants - (PNAS)
Oct 8 20:00Reply to Koplenig and Wolfer: Global language analyses must account for relationships, location, and unbalanced binary data - Xia Hua, et al. (PNAS)
Oct 8 20:00Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages - Alexander Koplenig, et al. (PNAS)
Oct 8 20:00Heterochronic shifts in a timing-keeping microRNA are associated with multiple instances of neoteny in plants - Aaron R. , et al. (PNAS)
Oct 8 20:00Functional genetic elements of a butterfly mimicry supergene - Nicholas W. , et al. (PNAS)
Oct 8 14:03Highlight: A Century of Genomic Data Preserved in Museums Illuminates Bird Conservation in Ethiopia by Pedro Andrade (GBE)

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