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Smartphones now have the capability of testing DNA, which will be anchored towards dealing with drugs and drug resistance in the future.

Editas Medicine, backed by Bill Gates and Google Ventures, continues to fight for their claim on the patent rights for the gene-editing technology, CRISPR, against the team from MIT and the Broad Institute who also claims their intellectual rights over the new tech.

Male smokers are three times more likely than non-smoking men to lose their Y chromosomes, according to research which may explain why men develop and die from many cancers at disproportionate rates compared to women.