The Daily Populous

Jennifer Doudna’s work began with organisms even further out on the Palin scale: bacteriophages, tiny viruses that prey on bacteria.

More than that, Crispr guides a killer enzyme to cut the phage’s DNA at the point where the 20‑base sequence is found.

For now the most exciting potential medical application is in single gene diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anaemia and muscular dystrophy. »

More frequent churchgoers (more than once a week) had a 55% reduction of all-cause mortality risk compared with non-churchgoers.

Study population characteristics were described by church attendance, using means and standard errors for continuous variables and proportions for categorical variables.

Our results underscore the potential importance of church attendance as a surrogate for religiosity as a mediator of health and lifespan. »

A Swedish brewery has paid tribute to the man who fought the London Bridge attackers by naming a new beer in his honour.

8/15 Emergency personnel on London Bridge as police are dealing with a "major incident" at London Bridge PA. 9/15 Police sniffer dogs on London Bridge as police are dealing with a "major incident" at London Bridge PA. 10/15 A second helicopter lands on London Bridge as police are responding to three incidents in the capital, amid reports that a vehicle collided with pedestrians on London Bridge, Scotland Yard said.

They are also at an incident in the Vauxhall area PA. 11/15 Police attend to an incident on London Bridge in London REUTERS. »

Four employees of a child care facility that cares for special needs children have been fired two days after the death of a child left in a hot day care van.

Dan Sullivan is a state representative from Jonesboro who aggressively advocates for less regulation of the child care industry in Arkansas. »