Nathaniel Scharping
After decades of stumbles and mis-starts, a cure for many cancers is finally on the horizon: Injecting patients with a genetically engineered virus
Infecting a cancer patient with a virus — a procedure that once would have raised eyebrows, if not malpractice lawsuits ...
Facing an uncertain, climate-altered future, here is how scientists are revamping crops
[A new wheat variety called] Kernza brings higher yields and can contain more seeds per stem than average wheat. And ...
Bog bodies of Europe: 2500-year-old, naturally preserved humans provide astonishing insight into ancient cultures
The peat bogs of Ireland, Denmark, the U.K. and other European countries have yielded human remains for well over a ...
How genes from long-extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans live on in modern human DNA
When the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced in 2010 and compared with ours, scientists noticed that genes from Homo neanderthalensis ...
Were the Denisovans a collection of 3 different species?
A new study using genetic data is offering an intriguing new look into the history of the Denisovans, revealing them as a ...
Bad decision: Did your genes make you do it?
Studies have picked out groups of genes associated with intelligence, academic achievement, criminal activity and other life outcomes. It now ...
Making a ‘monster’ with artificial intelligence—on purpose
Researchers at MIT have created a psychopath. They call him Norman. He’s a computer. Actually, that’s not really right. Though ...
Not a nightmare: It’s possible to sweat blood
A medical case report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal from Italian researchers last year details a 21-year-old patient who began mysteriously sweating ...
Evolution may be tough to predict, but it’s not random
Can we predict the course evolution will take? That’s the question an international team of researchers decided to tackle, using ...
Popular Cavendish banana heading towards extinction, with GMO and gene edited varieties only viable saviors
We are in the age of the Cavendish, a banana cultivar that accounts for 99 percent of imports to the Western world. But ...
Human Project: 10,000 New Yorkers’ health to be tracked over 20 years
If you smoke cigarettes, you’re putting yourself at a heightened risk for heart disease. That correlation is well-known and unchallenged ...
Fighting the common cold: Understanding rare genetic mutation may be key
A rare mutation that nearly killed a young girl has revealed insights into the common cold. Researchers from the National Institute ...
Walked with us: Cave findings show extinct human-like species Homo naledi co-existed with modern humans
Discovered in a South African cave, H. naledi first came to light in 2015, in a paper by University of the Witwatersrand ...
To save energy, our liver grows by day and shrinks at night
Among all the organs in the human body, the liver is something of a superhero. Not only does it defend our ...
“Uncombable hair syndrome” linked to rare gene mutations
The "uncombable hair syndrome," which is usually present only in childhood, results in a tangled mess of frizzy hair that leaves ...
Drug industry could improve research if scientists use CRISPR edited human-like lab rats
“Cancer has been cured a thousand times.” So says Christopher Austin, the director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences ...
Bacteria give insights into randomness of evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a crazy world ...
