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This is the first time a company has legally exported live cannabis genetics from North America to Europe.

Beyond providing new insights into the regulation of gene expression, the findings have important implications for metastatic melanoma, and several neuro-developmental syndromes.

Isolating suspect DNA from rape cases can be confounded by the presence of the victim's DNA, so investigators often focus on the male Y chromosome. However, differentiation of individuals can be difficult where there is common paternal ancestry. Now, scientists have produced a computer model that can help understand how many men in a population have the same profile.

A new study has discovered how our body clocks cause wounds, such as cuts and burns, to heal approximately 60% faster if the injury happens during the day rather than at night. This could have implications for medical procedures such as surgery and provides targets for developing drugs that improve wound healing

CRISPR-Cas9 and iPSC advances hold treatment promise for schizophrenia, addiction, Zika infection and other diseases. The studies were presented at Neuroscience 2017, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

Researchers are investigating dental development as a more reliable gauge for assessing the age of children and juveniles in forensic and anthropological contexts. For many populations in rural Africa, birth registry and eliciting date of birth are still challenges and this may provide a tool to aid assessment of health status relating to growth and development.

A lower risk of type 2 diabetes has been observed among individuals consuming food rich in antioxidants. This effect is largely contributed by fruit, vegetables, tea and other hot beverages, as well as moderate consumption of alcohol, as shown in a recent study.

The fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet has been predicted based on its similarity to an historic ice sheet. Researchers mapped the advance and retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which covered large parts of North America during the Pleistocene, utilising accelerator mass spectrometry measurements of beryllium-10, a rare isotope of often used as a proxy for solar intensity.

Researchers have found that women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, a metabolite of the hormone progesterone. Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry were used to pick up extremely small levels of these chemicals in blood serum, saliva and brain tissue.

By using innovative labeling methods, researchers have developed a technique to measure newly synthesized proteins in the active mouse brain allowing observations of real time changes in the proteome.