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China Successfully Cloned Monkeys – Are Humans Next?
Cloned Monkeys! It was over 21 years ago now when University of Edinburgh scientists successfully cloned the first mammal. Its name is “Dolly”, paving the way for further advancements in genetic research. Now Chinese researchers have moved the needle even further towards actual human cloning, by successfully cloning macaque monkeys.…
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Do You Want Zombies? Scientists Want to Reanimate a Brain!
Remember all those horror films you’ve watched and those games you played where someone made a bad decision and unleashed the zombie apocalypse on the world, I think we may have found the start of ours. When it comes to life, people are often pronounced to have passed when they…
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Chinese Scientists Edit Embryonic Human Genome
A group of Chinese scientists have become the first to edit the genetic code in a human embryo. The study, which aimed to remove the gene responsible for the potentially fatal blood disorder β-thalassaemia, rewrote the genetic material – using a technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 – of ‘non-viable’ embryos that…
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Samsung Reviews its Own Watch, Says its “Awesome”
It appears that Samsung is trying out some more of their outlandish marketing techniques. The “most average editor” writing a review of the Gear S smart watch for the ‘Samsung Tomorrow’ company blog has come out with the bold statement that “as much as this may sound biased, Gear S…
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Harvard University Secretly Tracked Attendance Using Cameras
The prestigious Harvard University has revealed it conducted an experiment using cameras to track attendance. The experiment which used security cameras and custom software to analyse the number of empty seats in a lecture hall, was conducted without the consent of the 2000 students involved. Unsurprisingly, this has prompted a…
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Facebook’s Emotion Manipulation Study Angers Users
A study was published recently showing that in January 2012, Facebook manipulated 689,003 members feeds to display a larger amount of positive or negative status updates. Running over a one week duration, this information was used to show that the moods of your friends on social media can affect your own mood positively or negatively on a…
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