Does germline gene editing cross evolutionary lines?

Francis Collins, George Church | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. George Church, professor of ...

Genes trump parenting in shaping who we are

Brian Boutwell | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I want you to ...

Answers to why we age may lie in genes

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Driven by the quest ...
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Do you have the brain of an entrepreneur?

Natalie Clarkson | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Ingrid Vandervelt, CEO ...
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Genes offer clues to why grandparents remain mentally alert

Kelli Whitlock Burton | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Evolutionarily speaking, we are ...

Nature or nurture: Which makes you who you are?

Macrina Cooper-White | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's an age-old debate: ...
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Which of our 25,000 genes matter most?

Ed Yong | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Humans have between 20,000 ...
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Why elephants almost never get cancer–and why that might save human lives

Caitlin A. Nichols | 
Why don’t elephants die of cancer nearly as often as humans, even though they have about 100 times as many ...
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Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans

Olivia Goldhill | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When agriculture arrived in ...

Spread of farming in Europe shaped early human ancestry

Helen Briggs | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A study of ancient ...
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Knowing your biology may help you argue more effectively

Brian Resnick | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Evidence continues to mount ...
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Infographic: Innovation in corn crops to feed hungry world

David MacLennan | 
For decades, U.S. corn yields languished at about 20-30 bushels per acre. But over time, regular investment in scientific research ...
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With rise of agriculture came big changes in European genome

Carl Zimmer | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agricultural revolution was ...

What made Einstein’s brain so special?

Garry Rodgers | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Albert Einstein died ...
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MRI of mother and child captures biggest questions in neuroscience

Rebecca Saxe | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mother and her ...

Does DNA really make you who you are?

Scott F. Gilbert | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ad for Ancestry.com's ...

What contributions did ancient Denisovans make to modern human gene pool?

Charles Q. Choi | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mysterious extinct branch ...

Can insects be genetically engineered as bioweapons?

Sharon Begley | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Gene drives”  have enormous ...

Early eugenics movement first introduced biology to politics

Nathaniel Comfort | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For centuries, human hereditary ...

Ancient tooth’s DNA adds Denisovians to human family tree

Danny Lewis | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. DNA extracted from a ...
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Are religious convictions heritable?

Peter Frost | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Religiosity is moderately heritable—25 ...
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“Hybridization is not genetic modification” — And other scientifically suspect anti-GMO sayings

David Warmflash | 
Life forms have been genetically modified, for billions of years by nature, and then for the last 11,000 years, in ...
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Why blacks sleep less: Race or racism?

Peter Frost | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African Americans sleep on ...

Are perceptions of human beauty grounded in culture or genes?

Karl Grammer | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Karl Grammer, professor of ...

Will genome editing disrupt species evolution?

Elizabeth Alter | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  There are four locked ...
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Changing climate may have pushed early human evolution in Africa

Sam Wong | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  It's been called the ...

Discoverers of ancient human Homo naledi fossils accused of rushing analysis

Robin McKie | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  It remains one of ...
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