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The HeLa line of immortal human epithelial cancer cells was derived from cells taken from Henrietta Lacks when she was a cancer patient in 1951. (Wellcome Collection: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute), CC BY-NC

Settlement with Henrietta Lack’s family over her cells highlights inequalities in genetic research

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Aug. 1, 2023 would have been Henrietta Lacks’s 103rd birthday. It was also the day the Lacks family reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech company that used and profited from ...

Computer Designed Organisms

Scientists created robots using living cells…then they started reproducing

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Meet the Xenobots: entirely new lifeforms that were created in the lab in 2020. Using stem-cells from frogs, scientists created the world’s first living, self-healing robots. They are less than a mill...

Front facing image of woman with a marker in her right hand as if she is about to write on a board. Her face and hand have circuitry going across them.

Are rich people more intelligent?

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Are rich people rich because they are smarter or does luck and socio-economic status have anything to do with it?

DNA Double Helix Photo by Braňo on Unsplash

We now have a genetics library that hopes to represent all of humanity

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A groundbreaking library has been created that represents all of humanity and will ensure that no genetic variations are left out.

A school of fish swimming near a collection of marine debris including ropes, and plastic bags.

Life is existing on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Life is existing on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, including a diverse array of coastal speciessuch as crabs and anemones that all seem to thrive on human created garbage.

Pogona vitticeps or bearded dragon sitting on a rock

We don’t really have a reptile brain

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We don't really have a reptile brain but mammals & reptiles have ancestral common neurons even after millions of years of evolution, as well as newer types in all regions of the brain.

Artist's impression of a Placoderm a prehistoric class of fish from the Devonian period. Here it has its jaws open read to snap over a smaller fish.

The oldest ever vetebrate fossil heart from 380 million-years-ago

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The oldest ever vetebrate fossil heart from 380 million-years-ago has been discovered in the limestone ranges of Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

Evolutionary Tree of Life: Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", Darwin's metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal by his greatest popularizer in the German scientific world. This is the English version of Ernst Haeckel's tree from the The Evolution of Man (Published 1879), one of several depictions of a tree of life by Haeckel. "Man" is at the crown of the tree; for Haeckel, as for many early evolutionists, humans were considered the pinnacle of evolution.

Evolutionary tree of life: modern science is showing how we got so much wrong

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In the Evolutionary tree of life science is showing how we got so much wrong. New DNA technology is shaking up the family trees of many plants and animals.

How human populations spread

Researchers have created the largest ever human family tree

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Researchers have created the largest ever human family tree, which has 231 million lineages, using 3,609 individual genome sequences from 215 populations.