Statistics around the world give an unambiguous picture: the majority of deaths from COVID-19 are men. According to experts, the matter is in genetics, writes Voice of America. On average, there are four women and six men for every ten coronavirus deaths. However, if you look at the age ...

Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov, a biologist at the Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov, plans to interfere with the DNA of five human embryos using the CRISPR method, BBC writes. He told New Scientist magazine last week that he has ...

A team of scientists from Portland, Oregon performed a successful operation to replace a damaged piece of human DNA with a healthy one in a living embryo. The result is called "the discovery of the decade", although it all started as a study of lactic acid bacteria, writes MIT Technology Review. According to scientists, this is the first step ...

Psychogeneticist Robert Plomin spoke about the role of genes and upbringing in the formation of personality and ability to foreign languages ​​in twins. Psychogenetics is looking for the genetic background of differences between people. Our DNA is 99% the same, people are almost identical, but 1% by which we differ ...

The US Food and Drug Administration plans to legislate three-parent fertility experiments. Clinical trials using three-person material will be aimed at reducing the number of inherited diseases associated with defects ...

American scientists have discovered genetic changes in Holocaust survivors. According to experts, genes can be inherited. The studies were carried out at the Mount Sinai Medical Complex in New York. Experts studied the genes of 32 Jewish men and women who survived imprisonment in concentration camps, tortured or ...

How your immune system does its job seems to depend more on the environment and the microbes you come in contact with, rather than genes. After all, the immune system adapts throughout life to fight disease, says ...