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Parents can now breathe easy, its the genetic makeup thats responsible for your childrens fussy eating. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Research suggests parents may be responsible for picky eating habits...

Parents can now breathe easy, it's the genetic makeup that's responsible for your children's fussy eating.

5 Oct 2017 1:48 PM GMT

A significant amount of work needs to be done before prenatal gene editing can be translated to the clinic (Photo: AFP)

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Genes may partly decide which university you attend: Study

Researchers from King's College London in UK found genetic factors that explained 57 per cent of differences in A-level...

19 Oct 2018 8:21 AM GMT

The work is the latest in a series of studies from Waller and colleagues using observation to assess a variety of aspects of parenting. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Parenting affects social behaviours in children, says study

Less parental warmth and harsher environment at home tend to determine how aggressive children become.

12 Oct 2018 4:04 AM GMT

40 per cent women identified themselves as very light smokers, with a habit of smoking one to two cigarettes either daily or occasionally. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Here's how smoking during pregnancy affects babies

The research examined potential reasons for this phenomenon, using a tissue, which is normally discarded following...

24 Nov 2018 3:16 AM GMT

Heart is the most vital organ as it supplies blood to all the other organs of the body. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Study links heart disease with Alzheimer's in some patients

The new study showed that Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease do share common genetics in some individuals.

10 Nov 2018 10:50 AM GMT

Worried of the infants fate, the mother monkey and other members of the team gathered there and guarded the young till it was freed from the trouble after an arduous 15-hour rescue mission.

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Monkeys cloned; are humans next in line?

The federal regulators in the US would not allow making a human baby by cloning, and international scientific groups...

25 Jan 2018 6:32 AM GMT

$The findings revealed that the genetic similarities could partly be because of what is known as \social homophily\. (Photo: Pixabay)$ Life

Pairs of friends more genetically similar than random pairs of...

The findings revealed that the genetic similarities could partly be because of what is known as "social homophily".

15 Jan 2018 4:34 PM GMT

$\Premature greying and androgenic alopecia (male-pattern baldness) correlate well with vascular age irrespective of chronological age and are plausible risk factors for coronary artery disease. (Photo: Pixabay)$ Life

There may soon be cure for baldness, says study

Skin patches with hair follicles are created in the lab using stem cells from mice.

3 Jan 2018 8:36 AM GMT

Protein is found in animal products like beef, pork, lamb, eggs, fish and poultry, as well as in plant-based foods like legumes, nuts. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Protein rich diet may reduce Alzheimer's risk: study

We also know that developing cardiovascular disease increases your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

22 Feb 2018 8:59 AM GMT

Frequent night work increased the odds of type 2 diabetes, regardless of genetic type 2 diabetes risk. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Frequent night shifts may up diabetes risk: study

The team also developed a genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes.

13 Feb 2018 1:22 PM GMT

This could one day help in developing regenerative medicine therapies and new infertility treatments. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Scientists grow human eggs to full maturity in a lab

Scientists had developed mouse eggs in a laboratory to the stage where they produced live offspring.

12 Feb 2018 2:03 PM GMT

The disease affects about 1 in 20 million people. It is a chance mutation and isnt inherited. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Kids with rare rapid-ageing disease get hope from study drug

The disease affects about 1 in 20 million people. It is a chance mutation and isn't inherited.

24 April 2018 3:24 PM GMT