23andMe is becoming a publicly-traded company through a merger with Virgin’s VG Acquisition. Engadget reports: The deal values 23andMe at about $3.5 billion and should give the company the finances it wants to boost its personal healthcare and therapeutics plans. It should have over $900 million in cash, for instance. The merger is expected to close in the second quarter of…
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Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep Than Others?
New genetic research in mice may reveal why some people need less sleep than others. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-some-people-need-less-sleep.html
Putin Could Decide For the World On CRISPR Babies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: According to Bloomberg, top Russian geneticists held a “secret meeting” this summer with government health officials in Moscow to debate a bid by a scientist there, Denis Rebrikov, to create babies genetically modified with the gene-editing technology CRISPR. The first such children were born in China last year as part of…
Neanderthals And Woolly Mammoths May Have Shared Genetic Traits
A new study conducted by Tel Aviv University proposes that Neanderthals and woolly mammoths shared the same climate adaptation traits. The elephant-like animals from around 600,000 years ago and the early humans from approximately 400,000 years ago seem to have the same molecular characteristics that helped them adapt to cold environments. The relationship between the… Continue reading Neanderthals And Woolly Mammoths May Have Shared Genetic Traits