As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news lies in your genes. University of California, Berkeley, scientists, however, have found a welcome reason to delve ...

When a young gene known as sphinx is inactivated in the common fruit fly, it leads to increased male-male courtship, scientists report in the May 27, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. High levels of male-male courtship are widespread in many fly species, but not in Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny insect that has ...

More and more we are finding that the unique characteristics that make each one of us an individual, from our basic physical attributes to the complexities of our personality, can be traced back to the subtle mix of genes we received at the moment of conception. But how much do these genes actually predict our destiny? And how much ...

The ability to genetically engineer human beings will change the human race forever. The secrets of DNA, the genetic code for life, are being unraveled. How are scientists learning to manipulate it to create new human beings – or parts of human beings? This film has access to the creation of the first cloned human embryo, and the ...

Identical twins don't have identical DNA. As this ScienCentral News video explains, this surprising research could help scientists better understand genetic diseases in the rest of us.

Jonathan Rosenberg is pleased to host a tech talk featuring Drs. Paul Hebert and Dan Janzen, who will discuss their transformative (and very Googley) International Barcode of Life project. iBOL's goal is to capture, using a handheld device, the unique ''DNA barcode'' of each and every species on earth, and organize that information to be ...

Topical news in the field of medicine from around the globe.

From Boston- A new genetic link has been found to autism. Scanning the DNA of a database of patients and family members of those with varying degrees of the autism spectrum disorder, researchers were able to identify novel mutations in chromosome 16. These mutations involved both deletions and duplications on the chromosome. The mutation, ...

Gene pioneer Dr. J. Craig Venter gives the 32nd Richard Dimbleby Lecture, originally broadcast on Dec 4, 2007 on BBC1. One of the principal scientists who decoded the human genome is about to create the first artificial life form on Earth. So what does the future hold in A DNA-Driven World?

In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. Episode 2, The Biotech Revolution, argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the 'Age of Discovery' to the ...