Affecting an estimated 44 million people worldwide, Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disease and cause of dementia. Every 65 seconds someone in the USA develops Alzheimer’s, and in Singapore 1 in 10 people over the age of 60 are estimated to suffer from dementia. After decades of research, scientists are still puzzled as …
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Sexually frustrated weed
Today, confiscated weed is 3 times more potent than the mid 1990s, growing smaller and faster. It comes in hundreds of strains with different kinds of flavours and highs. Humans have learnt to engineer marijuana, and this has significant implications for users. Female cannabis plants produce much larger psychoactive flowers, and consequently they are better …
Designer DNA
The debate between somatic and germline gene editing have important distinctions. Somatic cells include most of the cells in the body, such as cells of the skin, blood and brain. These cells are not passed down to offspring. Germline edits involve cells of the sperm, egg or embryo which contain DNA passed to future generations. …
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