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An 80-year-old man has pleaded guilty to two felony wildlife crimes that are connected to his multi-year effort of creating giant hybrid sheep.

The entire Y chromosome can disappear from cells as they divide if DNA replication has enough errors, leading to the mLOY defect.

Verve Therapeutics is trialing a gene-editing treatment with CRISPR to change the DNA in liver cells to lower LDL cholesterol.

Japanese researchers have created a new method of storing somatic cells to clone mice with, resulting in a 0.2-5.4% success rate.

Monkeypox outbreaks have now been recorded in 50+ countries, and genetic analysis reveals it is mutating 6-12x faster than normal.

The first human trial of CRISPR gene-editing technology in the United States has all but cured 31 patients of SCD and 44 of TDT.

A study of over 207,000 men participating in the UK Biobank has revealed that almost 1 in 500 men have an extra X or Y chromosome.

New research shows that height is associated with an increased risk of many diseases and conditions, such as high blood pressure.

Biotechnology firm Oxitec has successfully tested releasing genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the Florida Keys.

Machine learning has helped identify 5,500 new RNA viruses belonging to the five known phyla and five newly proposed phyla.

Scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium have created a new complete human genome sequence, dubbed T2T-CHM13.

Oxitec plans to release its 'Friendly' genetically modified mosquito in California counties to kill invasive mosquito populations.

Researchers from the Oxford Big Data Institute have created the world's largest family tree, including almost 27 million members.

Genetic mutations in populations of Daphnia pulex found near Chernobyl were found in higher amounts relative to radiation doses.

Researchers from University College London have found an association between the Pol I and Pol III genes and longer lifespans.

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is starting work on sequencing the DNA of all 1.8 million named animal, plant and fungi species.

Scientists from UC Davis and the Max Planck Institute have identified a non-random pattern in DNA mutations of thale cress plants.

A new gene therapy targets the STRC genes for stereocilin, a genetic source of hearing loss, and returned hearing to mice.

A company has received millions in funding to resurrect a woolly mammoth in an endeavor to combat the effects of climate change.

Scientists have managed to create a mouse that is surprisingly also human.