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Psychedelics as therapeutics? Here is the rarely discussed downside
Psychedelics are generally safe drugs: The “classic” psychedelics, like psilocybin or LSD, have been shown to be low risk for ...
Viewpoint: Be wary of promises that psychedelic drugs will revolutionize mental health
Whether a psychoactive drug will bring about utopia or dystopia is a question not limited to fiction but rather increasingly ...
Biden Administration backs aerial glyphosate spraying to combat Colombia’s cocaine trade, drawing criticism from some drug policy experts
Biden’s administration celebrated Colombia’s decision to restart aerial eradication of coca in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Colombian ...
Why are left-handed people excluded from brain research?
About 10 percent of people prefer to use their left hand for everyday activities, like writing, a percentage that's remained ...
Congenital blindness appears to offer protection against schizophrenia. Researchers trying to figure out why.
No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. … This is especially surprising, since congenital blindness ...
Replacing the ‘magic mushroom’: Engineered bacteria more efficient at producing hallucinogenic compound psilocybin
Psilocybin mushrooms, popularly known as magic mushrooms, are famous as psychedelic purveyors of trippy epiphanies and cathartic giggle fits. But ...
Making the case for a sixth major mass extinction–the end-Guadalupian event
Life on Earth has diversified into countless forms over the course of billions of years, but it hasn’t always been ...
How did this bird evolve into existence again after disappearing 136,000 years ago?
The Aldabra white-throated rail, a flightless bird that lives on its namesake atoll in the Indian Ocean, doesn’t look like ...
Lesson from BPA: Banning glyphosate herbicide won’t make us safer
For years, opponents of glyphosate have argued the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is harmful for your health. ...
Genetic factors might explain nuances of male gay behavior, study claims
A lot of people think that homosexuality is a simple matter of genetics—if you have the so-called "gay gene," well, ...
Coming age of CRISPR gene editing: What in heck is the ‘Pink Chicken Project’?
A new website called "the Pink Chicken Project" offers up an intriguing nugget of an idea: what if we turned ...
Designer muscles: How gene doping could change sports
[Editor's Note: Adam Piore is an award-winning journalist and author of the new book The Body Builders: Inside the Science ...
20 years after Dolly the sheep, human cloning is no closer
On July 5, 1996, after 276 failed attempts, a team of scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of ...
Zika won’t stop Rio Olympics, despite significant health concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Rio Olympics will ...
Lack of transparency from fertility clinics prompts egg donors to share stories
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What will a young ...
How much will good, quality sperm cost you?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The price for a ...
What people around the world are saying about the safety of GMOs
VICE News traveled around the world speaking to people about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and differences in opinion about engineered ...
Vaginome: What’s hiding in the private’s microbial garden?
Microbes reside in virtually every human bodily system, a mix of about 10,000 different species of bacteria, fungi, and archaea ...
Drinking soda might degrade DNA, accelerate aging
So much for rotting teeth and making kids obese — a new study suggests that the regular consumption of soda ...
Rethinking stigma against GM meat
Genetic modification is an inflammatory subject. Especially when it comes to food. Crops are one thing, but the idea of ...
Video: When it comes to sports success, genes matter most
David Epstein, author of "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance" discusses the ways that human biological ...
23andMe facing class action suit for making ‘genetic predictions’
23andMe is now faced with a class-action lawsuit that challenges the company's claims of genetic tests' predictive power ...
Chinese company attempts to engineer genius babies
At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire ...
