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Tomorrow (Friday) is National Cat Day and as Halloween approaches, the RSPCA North Somerset branch has a special treat for all cat lovers.

And gains Greystone Kids Inside in: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World by Jan Paul Schutten, illus. by Arie Van ‘t Riet, trans. by Laura Watkinson (Oct. 12, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-679-6), provides a look at creatures and their natural habitats using x-ray techniques and photographs. Ages 2–7. How Beautiful by Antonella Capetti, illus. by Melissa Castrillon (Nov. 2, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-853-0). A curious caterpillar searches for the true meaning of the word beautiful. Ages 4–8. Lit...

This Morning fans distracted by bouncy baby giraffe Albert zooming in background This Mornings Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford had been speaking to zoo keeper Caroline Wright at Chester Zoo when they were introduced to Albert the baby Giraffe Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you pro...

In 1951, Belfast artist James MacIntyre spent a summer on the tiny island of Inishlacken, just off the Galway coast, with fellow artists Gerard Dillon and George Campbell. Years later, he wrote a lively account of the mishaps, friendships and inspirations of that summer in his book Three Men on an Island. James MacIntyres book in turn inspired Belfast artist Rosie McGurran to set up The Inishlacken Project, which every year gives a group of artists the opportunity to spend a week working on th...

In your lifetime, there will inevitably be bad days, global pandemics (hopefully just this once though), and dry cakes. Sometimes you will be to blame: You overmixed, you mismeasured, you forgot to set a timer, you baked the cake at too high a temperature for too many minutes (if you’re me, all of the above). Other times, you can fault the recipe—not enough fat, too many dry ingredients without enough wet, a ratio that is just plain off. The good news is that it’s not only possib...

The adorable 70kg Rothschild baby was welcomed into the world at Chester Zoo on Wednesday. Incredible CCTV captured the moment the unnamed male 6ft tall giraffe was born as he dropped onto a bed of soft straw from a height of two metres from mum Orla. And it later showed the gangly calf making his first tentative steps and suckling from his mother. Mother Orla (above) gently nuzzles against her newborn calf at Chester Zoo Orla and ten-year-old dad Merus fifth baby brings fresh hope for the spec...

The type of chips used in some consumer DNA tests struggles to separate rare mutations from experimental noise, and a positive result for a rare cancer-causing gene variant is more likely to be wrong than right. Results for common variants are better, though. Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chips are a cheaper way to map genomes than full genetic sequencing. Using grids of hundreds of thousands of beads that react to specific gene variants by glowing in different colours, these chips can ...

After hearing of cases where women had surgery scheduled after wrongly being told they had very rare genetic variations in the gene <i>BRCA1</i> that could significantly increase risk of breast cancer, researchers conducted a large-scale analysis of the technology used. They found that it wrongly identified the presence of very rare genetic variants in the majority of cases.

Experts warned that some British women have even booked mastectomy surgery after the home kits wrongly indicated they had a gene which significantly increases the risk of breast cancer.

Common genetic test often wrong when identifying rare disease-causing variants such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, study says A genetic test used to detect common traits many people share is not reliable in identifying rare disease-causing variations, such as those that can predict breast and ovarian cancer, a new study has found. The SNP test, which stands for “single nucleotide polymorphism,” is used by direct-to-consumer DNA and ancestry companies to identify common traits such as eye color, height...