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Using the data from the 2009 genotyping test, 23andMe compiled health predisposition reports, carrier status, and ancestry insights. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Genetics , Ancestry

Simplified: Using data from the 2009 genotyping test, 23andMe compiled health predisposition reports, carrier status, and ancestry insights.

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In 2009, Ronald Bailey paid 23andMe $1,000 for a genotyping test that analyzed about 555,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). 0.900

👤 Ronald Bailey 📋 News Article 🏷️ Personal Experience , Cost , Genetics

Simplified: In 2009, Ronald Bailey paid 23andMe $1,000 for a genotyping test that analyzed about 555,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

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Those mutations have accumulated since the virus picked it up from our ancestors, allowing Dr. Feschotte and his colleagues to estimate that the virus swiped our gene about 100,000 years ago. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Evolution , Viruses , Mutations , Scientific research

Simplified: Mutations in the viral BC200 gene accumulated since its acquisition from human ancestors, leading Dr. Feschotte and his colleagues to estimate the vir...

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In the brain, BC200 produces an RNA molecule whose purpose scientists have yet to pin down. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Research , Genetics , RNA , Brain

Simplified: In the brain, the BC200 gene produces an RNA molecule whose function scientists have not yet determined.

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Nels Elde, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Utah, said this discovery "hits closer to home." 1.000

👤 Nels Elde 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Viruses , Attributed statement

Simplified: Nels Elde, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Utah, stated that the discovery of a human gene in a virus "hits closer to home."

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Viruses that infect bacteria, for example, can latch onto genes that the bacteria were using to resist antibiotics. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Viruses , Bacteria , Antibiotic resistance

Simplified: Viruses that infect bacteria can attach to genes that bacteria use for antibiotic resistance.

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Previous studies have demonstrated that viruses can pick up genes from their hosts. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Research , Genetics , Viruses

Simplified: Previous studies demonstrated that viruses can acquire genes from their hosts.

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Molluscum contagiosum virus, which causes sores on skin, swiped a gene from humans about 100,000 years ago according to a new study. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Evolution , Viruses

Simplified: Molluscum contagiosum virus acquired a human gene approximately 100,000 years ago, according to a new study.

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Dr. Weintraub said super-agers’ preternatural ability likely comes down to their genetics and biology, as well as their behaviors. 0.900

👤 Sandra Weintraub 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Biology , Genetics

Simplified: Dr. Sandra Weintraub said that the abilities of super-agers likely result from a combination of their genetics, biology, and behaviors.

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Genetic testing revealed the real cause: a fatal mutation that weakens the heart muscle and is so rare that no other family besides ours has ever been found to carry it. 1.000

👤 Greg Segal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Genetics

Simplified: Genetic testing revealed the author's family carries a rare, fatal mutation that weakens the heart muscle, which has not been found in any other famil...

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CRISPR arose from this viral weapon, the researchers suggest, when microbes seized the system for their own use. 1.000

👤 The researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Evolution

Simplified: Researchers suggest that CRISPR evolved after microbes adapted a viral weapon system for their own purposes.

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Dr. Doudna said she felt humbled to think that an ancestor of gene-editing systems was sitting in her lab freezer for years. 1.000

👤 Dr. Doudna 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , History of Science

Simplified: Dr. Doudna said that an ancestor of gene-editing systems had been present in her lab freezer for years.

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“I would be very surprised if VIPR were the last unexpected targeting system we discover,” said Rafael Pinilla-Redondo, a virologist at the University of Copenhagen who was not involved in the studies... 1.000

👤 Rafael Pinilla-Redondo 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Scientific Discovery

Simplified: Rafael Pinilla-Redondo stated he would be surprised if VIPR is the last unexpected genetic targeting system to be discovered.

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“You can imagine VIPR is a gun that viruses are pointing at each other,” Dr. Yoon said. “If the bacteria just steal that, it becomes an immune system.” 1.000

👤 Dr. Yoon 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Virology

Simplified: Dr. Yoon stated that VIPR is like a 'gun that viruses are pointing at each other,' which, if stolen by bacteria, becomes an immune system.

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Our own DNA is rife with them [viral genes]. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Human Genome

Simplified: Human DNA contains many viral genes.

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A virus that carries VIPR genes can shut down its rival. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Virology

Simplified: A virus with VIPR genes has the ability to shut down a rival virus.

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And like CRISPR, these molecules targeted viral DNA, the researchers found. 1.000

👤 Researchers 📋 News Article 🏷️ Research , Genetics , Scientific Discovery

Simplified: Researchers found that VIPR molecules, like CRISPR, targeted viral DNA.

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Dr. Doudna and her students see in this biochemistry a weapon that viruses must be deploying against other viruses. 1.000

👤 Dr. Doudna and her students 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biology , Genetics , Virology

Simplified: Dr. Doudna and her students hypothesize that the VIPR system is a weapon used by viruses against other viruses.

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While CRISPR proteins chop up genes, VIPR proteins wrap around them. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Scientific Discovery

Simplified: VIPR proteins wrap around genes, whereas CRISPR proteins chop them up.

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Dr. Yoon and his colleagues named these proteins VIPR and set out figuring out how they worked. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Genetics , Scientific Discovery

Simplified: Dr. Yoon and his colleagues named the newly discovered proteins VIPR.

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