Hacker News with Generative AI: Genetics

The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World (wsj.com)
For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer.

History, Genetics, Ancestry

6 points by petethomas 2 days ago | 2 comments

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant (nature.com)
Artefacts made from stones, bones and teeth are fundamental to our understanding of human subsistence strategies, behaviour and culture in the Pleistocene.

Archaeology, Genetics, Ancient History, Paleolithic

40 points by wglb 4 days ago | 2 comments

Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023) (cbc.ca)
Scientists have discovered a woman's DNA preserved in a 20,000 year old deer-tooth pendant.

Archeology, Genetics, Ancient History, DNA, Prehistoric Artifacts

164 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 74 comments

Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. (popularmechanics.com)
A study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to a human clinical trial. By targeting the USAG-1 gene, researchers believe that they can help people without a full set of teeth regrow teeth. The team says that humans have a third set of teeth available as buds, ready to grow as needed.

Science, Dentistry, Genetics, Biology

53 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 13 comments

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth.

Genetics, Extinction, Animals, Science

5 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 0 comments

Men with higher-quality sperm live longer, study finds (theguardian.com)
Sperm may be the canaries in the coalmine for male health, according to research that reveals men with higher-quality semen live longer.

Health, Science, Biology, Genetics, Men's Health

7 points by c420 6 days ago | 0 comments

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth.

Genetics, Biology, Conservation, Extinction

69 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | 61 comments

Woolly mice designed to engineer mammoth-like elephants (bbc.co.uk)
Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming.

Genetics, Climate Change, Animal Engineering, Mammoth, Arctic

5 points by goodcanadian 6 days ago | 1 comments

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice (theguardian.com)
A plan to revive the mammoth is on track, scientists have said after creating a new species: the woolly mouse.

Science, Genetics, Extinction, Animals, Biology

18 points by n1b0m 7 days ago | 2 comments

The 'bionic' girl from the UK who feels no pain or hunger (2023) (firstpost.com)
A UK teenager named Olivia Farnsworth has a rare chromosome condition known as chromosome 6 deletion, which does not make her feel hungry, pain or sense of danger. It is believed she is the only person in the world who possesses all three symptoms together

Genetics, Health, Rare Conditions

4 points by thunderbong 8 days ago | 1 comments

Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language (nytimes.com)
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

Linguistics, Genetics, History, Archaeology

8 points by clockworksoul 9 days ago | 0 comments

Chimeric particles expand species boundaries in chromosomal island mobilization (biorxiv.org)
Some mobile genetic elements spread among unrelated bacterial species through unknown mechanisms.

Genetics, Microbiology, Evolution, Biology, Research

4 points by lawrenceyan 10 days ago | 0 comments

Sneaky bamboo can control the genes of the Pandas eating it, scientists discover (livescience.com)

Genetics, Biology, Animals, China, Science

9 points by Brajeshwar 11 days ago | 0 comments

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover (news.ufl.edu)
In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence. Four decades later, rebels used the memory of the massacre to help inspire the toppling of the Assad family that had overseen the operation.

Genetics, History, Violence, Syria

443 points by gudzpoz 11 days ago | 249 comments

Explaining an apparent 17:1 female to male population question during the Neoli (sciencealert.com)
Around 7,000 years ago - all the way back in the Neolithic - something really peculiar happened to human genetic diversity. Over the next 2,000 years, and seen across Africa, Europe and Asia, the genetic diversity of the Y chromosome collapsed, becoming as though there was only one man for every 17 women.

Genetics, Human Evolution, Neolithic Period

8 points by todsacerdoti 15 days ago | 0 comments

Mapping the yerba mate genome reveals the evolution of caffeine biosynthesis (phys.org)
Mapping the yerba mate genome reveals surprising facts about the evolution of caffeine

Genetics, Botany, Caffeine

5 points by PaulHoule 16 days ago | 0 comments

New reviews for Lumina Probiotic, the genetically engineered toothpaste (sfstandard.com)
In January of last year, a handful of tech elites flew to Honduras to try a single-use toothpaste that wasn’t available in the U.S. Shelling out up to $20,000 for a dose, they hoped the genetically engineered dental rinse might permanently ward off cavities.

Genetics, Biotechnology, Dental Health, Consumer Products, Social Commentary

4 points by tomwiddles 16 days ago | 0 comments

Biologists discover a new type of control over RNA splicing (phys.org)
MIT biologists have now discovered a new layer of regulation that helps to determine which sites on the messenger RNA molecule the spliceosome will target.

Biology, RNA, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Science

15 points by wglb 18 days ago | 3 comments

Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes (ox.ac.uk)
A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity) and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes.

Health, Genetics, Lifestyle, Environment, Aging

55 points by gnabgib 19 days ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Synergetica – A Modern, End-to-End Genetic Circuit Design Desktop App (github.com/khokao)

Software, Genetics, Design Tools, Open Source

64 points by khokao 24 days ago | 13 comments

Engineering of human cells reveals genome's resilience to structural changes (phys.org)
The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Genetics, Biology, Science, Human Biology, Genome

48 points by PaulHoule 24 days ago | 6 comments

A former Navy mechanic defied genetic odds of inherited Alzheimer's disease (medicalxpress.com)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have conducted a longitudinal study on an individual carrying the presenilin 2 (PSEN2) p.Asn141Ile mutation, a genetic variant known to cause dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (DIAD).

Alzheimer's Disease, Genetics, Medical Research, Health

3 points by pinewurst 27 days ago | 0 comments

Several Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Root Cause (sciencealert.com)
Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.

Psychiatry, Genetics, Mental Health, Science

8 points by cmogni1 29 days ago | 0 comments

Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals (cnn.com)

Bird Flu, Animal Health, Science, Genetics

28 points by amichail 30 days ago | 5 comments

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family (hms.harvard.edu)
A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus languages.

Genetics, Linguistics, History, Archaeology, Europe

211 points by jimmytucson 32 days ago | 174 comments

Dyson Tree (wikipedia.org)
A Dyson tree is a hypothetical genetically engineered plant (perhaps resembling a tree) capable of growing inside a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson.

Hypothetical Concepts, Science, Astronomy, Genetics, Space Exploration

6 points by bookofjoe 35 days ago | 0 comments

The genetic key to bipolar disorder (med.uio.no)
In the largest study conducted to date on the genetics of bipolar disorder, researchers have identified 36 genes linked to the condition.

Genetics, Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder, Research

6 points by gmays 45 days ago | 4 comments

Neanderthals' blood type may help explain their demise, new study finds (livescience.com)

Neanderthals, Blood Type, Genetics, Extinct Species, Research

9 points by Brajeshwar 46 days ago | 0 comments

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women (tcd.ie)
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, finding evidence of female political and social empowerment.

Genetics, Archaeology, History, Gender Studies, Iron Age

31 points by gmays 46 days ago | 10 comments

Sex Begins in the Womb (2001) (nlm.nih.gov)
Sex differences occur throughout the life span, although their specific expression varies at different at stages of life.

Biology, Sex, Development, Genetics, Health

9 points by thunderbong 48 days ago | 1 comments