Nicholas Wade
Viewpoint: Are science journalists intentionally misreporting on COVID origins?
Two hypotheses have long been on the table. One is that the virus jumped naturally from some animal host, as ...
Viewpoint: Was Eric Lander’s ousting as Biden’s science advisor a case of political correctness gone wild?
The best way to understand a society, social anthropologists say, is to start by studying its most bizarre, irrational, and ...
Viewpoint: Did Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins preside over lab-leak theory suppression for political reasons?
From almost the moment the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in the city of Wuhan, the medical-research establishment in Washington and ...
Viewpoint: Why the Wuhan lab escape theory explaining the origin of the global pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach ...
Can we eradicate malaria with promising new gene drive technique?
Malaria is among the world’s worst scourges. In 2016 the disease, which is caused by a parasite and transmitted by ...
CRISPR may allow us to choose the color of butterfly wings
Only nature can paint the gorgeous colors and patterns on a butterfly’s wings. But scientists said... they have mastered the ...
How the woolly mammoth met its end: DNA analysis reveals ‘genomic meltdown’
In an island north of the eastern tip of Siberia, a small group of woolly mammoths became the last survivors ...
Genetic engineering successfully reverses aging in mice, rejuvenating organs
At the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., scientists are trying to get time to run backward. Biological time, that ...
Gene drive technique aims to control mosquito, pest populations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biologists in the United ...
Gene editing propels search for Duchenne muscular dystrophy cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After decades of disappointingly ...
International CRISPR summit ends in human genome editing slow down
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An international group of ...
Geneticists aim to eradicate malaria with genetically engineered mosquitoes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a basement on ...
Wade responds to racial controversy over his book ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’
hree attacks on my book A Troublesome Inheritance have appeared on The Huffington Post's blog this month. For readers puzzled ...
Genetic Atlas: Human history of moving around and fooling around
New statistical approaches are giving us our first real shot at pulling apart the genome to see when human populations ...
Gene sleuths find how some naturally resist cholera
Researchers found that people of the Ganges Delta have adapted genetically to withstand cholera and arsenic ...
Fish’s DNA may explain how fins turned to feet
The following is an excerpt. In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land ...