Genetics

The world's first baby has been born using a controversial new technique by U.S. scientists to include DNA from three parents in the embryo, said a report Sept. 27.
The baby boy was born five months ago in Mexico to Jordanian parents, and is healthy and doing well, said the report in New Scientist magazine, described as an "exclusive." 

A new study conducted by food testing company Clear Labs in US has discovered from a sample of 258 burgers, two cases of meat in vegetarian products, three burgers with rat DNA and one case of human DNA.

“The most likely cause is hair, skin, or fingernail that was accidentally mixed in during the manufacturing process,” the report mentioned referring to the human DNA.

A total of 4000 people gathered on the southern beach in the Bulgarian city of Varna on Saturday, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest human DNA helix.

Modern Greeks resemblance to Ancient Greeks has often been either challenged or accepted as fact. The truth is that genes recombine with every passing generation to combine unique generations. Not only do “no two people look alike” but generations also are unique.

The matter of whether we choose our sexual orientation or it chooses us is a subject of great controversy which has caused a longstanding debate among the scientific community.

United Kingdom becomes the pioneer with the House of Lords approving a bill passed by the Commons to allow ‘three parent’ babies.

UK is the first nation in the world to allow the “mitochondrial transfer” technique, known as “three-parent”.

Chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi told Adevarul Live's Monday webcast that corruption prosecutors do not take up cases to prosecute based on whether or not it is an election year or on a person having a certain legal capacity, but only based on operative moments.

Two men who disrupted a lecture by Nobelist James Watson at the University of Patra in April 2011 were convicted on Wednesday.

One was handed a 13-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of using an illegal weapon and causing bodily harm. The other received a three-month term, also suspended for three years, for illegal use of violence.