https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Scientists at the University of Konstanz in southern Germany announced Thursday they have worked out how some animals can re-grow amputated limbs, successfully completing three decades of research. https://www.thelocal.de/20111124/39089 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:12:00 +0100 39089 Couples using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) can have embryos screened to ensure their child will not develop any serious hereditary disease or disability under a milestone law passed Thursday by Germany’s parliament. https://www.thelocal.de/20110707/36151 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:25:00 +0200 36151 For the first time ever, German scientists have drafted a genome sequence for the Neanderthal and believe their results show that the extinct hominid interbred with humans. https://www.thelocal.de/20100506/27033 Thu, 06 May 2010 22:26:00 +0200 27033 German scientists have helped uncover the unspectacular truth about the glorious Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun: he was a weak, club-footed, malaria-infected son of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister. https://www.thelocal.de/20100217/25329 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:25:00 +0100 25329 Scientists from the US National Institutes for Health (NIH) announced this week they have discovered the gene that causes one of Germany’s iconic dog breeds, the dachshund, to have such short legs. https://www.thelocal.de/20090717/20661 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:30:00 +0200 20661 Dogs have always enjoyed wide acceptance and man’s best friend, but a German team of scientists has revealed that horses may have been domesticated more than five millennia ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20090428/18931 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:18:00 +0200 18931 Germany has agreed to allow test cultivation of Amflora, a genetically modified potato manufactured by chemicals giant BASF, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090427/18917 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:35:00 +0200 18917 New findings by a German-American team of researchers show that Neanderthal childbirth may have been just as difficult – if more primitive – than in humans. https://www.thelocal.de/20090422/18795 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:50:00 +0200 18795 A gene linked to longevity in Japanese people has also been uncovered in Germans, suggesting people with the right genes the world over can reach a ripe old age, a study published Tuesday showed. https://www.thelocal.de/20090203/17177 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:19:00 +0100 17177 Germany’s genetics society on Monday condemned the practices of geneticists who during the Third Reich helped the Nazi regime murder thousands of handicapped people. https://www.thelocal.de/20080714/13063 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:24:00 +0200 13063