Los Angeles Times
In 1974, genetic engineers called for a moratorium on potentially dangerous technology. Is it time for artificial intelligence researchers to do the same?
Although 50 years apart, the debates that followed the DNA and AI letters have a key similarity: In both, a ...
Long-awaited National Intelligence report on COVID origins rejects China lab leak theory, sparking outrage among Wuhan skeptics and conspiracists
A new U.S. government report debunks the theory that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab ...
Viewpoint: Abortion has nothing to do with eugenics. Pro-life activists need to stop equating them
Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s ...
Anti-vaxxers based their rejectionism on a study claiming COVID shots caused excessive deaths. Now it’s been retracted
Doubts about scientific papers related to COVID-19 have been rife during the pandemic. The database of retractions of COVID studies ...
Viewpoint: Social justice movement challenges basic science — ‘Restricting research on the science of human nature won’t cure injustice or prejudice’
Does nature shape who we are? Since the advent of cognitive science, neuroscience and behavioral genetics, this age-old question has ...
‘Bargain babies’: How one company exploited surrogate mothers and profited from families desperate for children
Couples could save “over 60% compared to US options” by using surrogates in Mexico, Lilly Frost's website advertised, touting “ethical, ...
Should you be ‘crazy scared’ about monkeypox? Here’s why scientists say ‘no’
The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that’s struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
COVID-19 timeline: Here’s how the pandemic likely unfolded in Wuhan
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, has pieced together clues from earliest days of the outbreak ...
With COVID vaccine hesitancy raging, CDC abandons long-sought herd immunity goal
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, there has been one collective goal for bringing it to an end: achieving ...
‘Every single week it’s a new myth’: Misconceptions and disinformation hobble efforts to promote COVID vaccines, including among Latino Americans
When it comes to misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, health advocates have heard it all. “Every single week, it’s a ...
Moderna vaccine appears to be significantly superior to Pfizer’s in preventing COVID hospitalizations
Amid persistent concerns that the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines may be waning, a report released [September 17] by the ...
Is a new California law limiting protests at COVID vaccine centers constitutional?
A proposal sailing through the California Legislature that aims to stop people from getting harassed outside vaccination sites is raising ...
Vaccine conspiracy theories hold wide sway in government-skeptical Latino community
Since the pandemic began, Latinos like my dad, a Mexican immigrant, have been hit with a torrent of false claims ...
For some COVID victims, it’s a tortured path regaining a sense of smell
Smell is instrumental in our perception of flavors, allowing us to differentiate strawberry from raspberry ice cream and warning us ...
‘Rare event’: Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine does not pose major danger of allergic reactions
Among 4,041,396 [Moderna COVID vaccine] doses given over 21 days, a total of 10 cases of anaphylaxis were confirmed by ...
How DNA and genetic genealogy helped catch one of the world’s most notorious murderers, the Golden State Killer
The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said ...
Why Black Americans are among the largest group of COVID vaccine skeptics
[A]cross the U.S., only 32% of Black adults say they would definitely or probably take a COVID-19 vaccine, according to ...
With Trump preaching ‘America first,’ developing world allies like Mexico are looking to Russia and China for COVID vaccines
At least three U.S. pharmaceutical companies have agreements with the Mexican government that could reduce how long its citizens have ...
Saliva COVID tests appear as accurate as nasal swabs
Two new studies have found that tests that look for the virus in samples of saliva are about as reliable ...
Alzheimer’s disease may soon be detectable with a simple blood test
[A blood test might] be a simple way to help diagnose [Alzheimer’s, the] most common form of dementia. Developing such a ...
‘Zombie cells’ infected with coronavirus sprout ‘ghoulish’ tentacles that reach out and hijack neighbors
Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have discovered that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects a human ...
‘Colossal Maybes’: Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine ‘largely failed’ to improve coronavirus patient survival rates in early, small studies
The malaria drugs touted by President Trump as potentially “the biggest game changers in the history of medicine” have received ...
This simple technology could help prevent 72,000 tons of food waste every year
Imagine bananas that never go bad. To Aidan Mouat, chief executive of Chicago-based Hazel Technologies, it’s not so far-fetched. His ...
Viewpoint: Controversial red-meat review challenged ‘deeply entrenched’ nutrition advice with strong science
That last food flip-flop made big headlines last week. It was a “remarkable turnabout,” “jarring,” “stunning.” How, it was asked, ...
On verge of extinction, polio sweeps through Pakistan thanks to anti-vax movement
Polio is making a troubling comeback in Pakistan, and it is being driven by some of the same forces spreading measles ...
California advances ban on insecticide chlorpyrifos, claims ‘politics’ prevent EPA from acting
California regulators on [August 14] took formal legal steps to ban a widely used pesticide that had been rescued from ...
Should we have laws to protect our genetic privacy? DNA testing companies don’t think so
How much genetic privacy is a consumer entitled to? Congress is now pondering federal privacy rules that probably will address ...
Why Donald Trump and other politicians shouldn’t promise a cancer cure
President Trump made a new promise if voters grant him a second term: “We will come up with the cures ...
