DNA
PTN interviews Austen Heinz, CEO of Cambrian Genomics:
Posted in Featured, Interviews on 6th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
Austen has ambitions to create artificial life forms: We dig deeper into the future of synthetic biology.
Scientists make enzyme that could help explain origins of life
Posted in Science on 30th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists have devised an enzyme with a unique property that might have been crucial to the origin of life on Earth.
New lead for potential Parkinsons treatment: Effects of high-risk Parkinsons mutation are reversible
Posted in Medicine on 15th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
Evidence on how to target and reverse the effects caused by one of the most common genetic causes of Parkinsons.
Telomerase can be turned off with a genetic switch which could be an antiaging breakthrough
Posted in Medicine on 22nd Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered an on-and-off switch in cells that may hold the key to healthy aging.
Breast cancer test 'Angelina Jolie effect' found
Posted in Medicine on 20th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Referrals to breast cancer clinics more than doubled in the UK after Angelina Jolie announced she had had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.