Debora MacKenzie
Recent mutations in Zika virus may drive current outbreak
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Don’t get pregnant, at ...
Resistance genes found making bacteria impervious to all antibiotics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Well that’s ironic. As ...
Primate Ebola vaccine slowed by US ban on chimp testing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An animal welfare victory ...
World Health Organization accelerates program to test Ebola drugs
Science to the rescue in West Africa? The World Health Organization is launching a crash programme to test experimental treatments ...
Antibiotics can harm even when they work, contributing to allergies, diabetes, maybe autism
Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs. New Scientist has ...
23andMe patents DNA tool for ‘desigining’ a baby
23andMe received a patent for their family inheritance tool, which suggests likely traits for a couple's offspring. But the patent, ...
Scientists identify mutations associated with intelligence for first time
In the first study of its kind that has generated a reproducible result, researchers report on ten variations in DNA ...
Genetics helps determine where the H7N9 bird flu came from
The following is an excerpt. The new H7N9 bird flu strain continues to spread across China. Currently, more than 120 ...
