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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece has something to say about the three-person baby debate
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By Helen King*, Open University
The science and morality of creating a life with DNA from three different individuals is hot news. The UK parliament has voted in favour of allowing trials of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), otherwise also known as three-person...
Archaeology
Amphipolis Tomb Tops NBC 2014 Scientific Mysteries List
The Amphipolis tomb riddle tops the NBC list of scientific mysteries for 2014.
The tomb's discovery in Casta Hill, northern Greece, generated one of the biggest scientific questions for 2014: Who is buried in the grave that dates to the era...
Europe
Greek-Cypriot Professor Produces Groundbreaking Anti-Ageing Serum
Greek-Cypriot professor at the Imperial College of London Chris Toumazou found the best way to combat ageing when he partnered with an unlikely collaborator, Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes.
The most advanced anti-ageing serum ever created, "Geneu" (pronounced gene you), is going...
Archaeology
Amphipolis Tomb Excavation Ends, Labs to Determine Skeleton's Identity
Greece 's General Secretary of Culture Lina Mendoni on November 14, said that excavation works at the Amphipolis tomb came to an end and the skeleton of the buried has been transferred to a laboratory in order to determine...
Greece
Christodoulos Xeros' DNA Found on Itea Police Station Parcel-Bomb
A day following the proclamation sent by the Greek terrorist organization “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” claiming responsibility for the parcel bomb which was sent to the Itea Police Station in central Greece on April 29, Greek police authorities...
Greece
Greeks EU's 2nd Biggest Horse Meat Eaters
Greece has the second-highest number of reported cases concerning the recent food scandal about the mixing of horse meat with beef in the food chain, according to the first results of DNA analyses. In Greece, from a total of...
Ancient Greece
New Survey Says Greeks Taught Agriculture to Neolithic Scandinavians
A new Swedish-Danish survey shows that agriculture techniques transferred from Southern to Northern Europe gradually.
The scientists examined the DNA of four Scandinavian farmers of the Neolithic Age and found that they had more genes in common with inhabitants of...