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Genetic modification, gene therapy, insect resistance management: Evolutionary tools for sustainability

Solving societal challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss will require evolutionary thinking in order to be effective ...

Engineered spleen fights sepsis

Sara Reardon | 
Researchers have developed a high-tech method to rid the body of infections — even those caused by unknown pathogens. A ...

Some people with Alzheimer’s brain plaques rev up cognition to compensate

Michael Slezak | 
It's one of the biggest mysteries of Alzheimer's. The disease is associated with the formation of protein plaques in the ...

Pipeline drugs for ovarian cancer will genetically match patients

Elaine Schattner | 
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. You might not notice. Ovarian cancer shares the back-to-school educational National Health Observances slot with ...

What CRISPR gene editing means for San Fran biotech

Stephanie Lee | 
A new way to make powerful changes at will to the DNA of humans, other animals and plants, much like ...

Ugandan finance minister supports biotech bill

Paul Kiwuuwa | 
The minister of state for Finance in charge of Planning, Matia Kasaija, has refuted claims  that government has withdrawn the ...

Eye disease patient to be first treated with adult stem cells

David Cyranoski | 
A Japanese patient with a debilitating eye disease is about to become the first person to be treated with induced ...

How will evolution and technology interact in the future of the human species?

Will our bodies evolve to eliminate age-related diseases or will we use technology to change our bodies before that happens? ...
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Sperm contains dad’s lifestyle information alongside basic genetic material

Robert Sapolsky | 
Since I'm a guy, this may sound weird, but I've always found sperm to be pretty boring as cells. You ...
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Addiction: How our genes program our preferences and habits

Ben Locwin | 
Just 11 genes successfully identify who is likely to have problems with alcohol abuse and who will not. Does this ...
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Genetics of intelligence: many, many genes with tiny effects

Meredith Knight | 
The explanation of the inheritance of intelligence has long been studied, but without any blockbuster results. A new study adds ...

New Cornell project to strengthen voice for science and depolarize debate around GMOs

A new international effort led by Cornell will seek to add a stronger voice for science and depolarize the charged ...
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29-year study of trillions of meals shows GE crops do not harm food-producing animals, humans

Jon Entine | 
According to GMO critics, livestock around the world are developing cancer and dropping like flies after eating genetically engineered feed ...

Genetic engineering could save Florida’s $9 billion citrus industry from deadly disease

Daren Blakst, Scott Blakeman | 
The $9 billion Florida citrus industry is being threatened by a disease believed to have originated in China known as huanglongbing, commonly referred ...
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Beyond family history: Should all women be screened for BRCA breast cancer genes?

Meredith Knight | 
New evidence shows that women without a family history of breast cancer often carry disease-causing mutations in BRCA 1 and ...
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Who owns your DNA? It’s not who you think

Meredith Knight | 
Recent court cases show the law favors hospitals and law enforcement rather than individuals when it comes to handing genomic ...

Common childhood kidney cancer sequenced, offering treatment target

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Medical Center, Dallas, ...

First cancer drug that turn off body’s immune system proteins approved

U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the first drug in a new class of cancer medicines that work by stimulating the ...
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Genetic factors make women more susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease than men

Fredrick Kunkle | 
Years ago, many scientists assumed that a woman’s heart worked pretty much the same as a man’s. But as more ...
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Hornless cattle make case for gene editing and less restrictive regulation of GM animals

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Will new gene editing techniques that don't involve the insertion of "foreign" genes soften the opposition to genetic modification? Researchers ...

European brain initiative mired in too much IT

Gilles Laurent, Yves Frégnac | 
Launched in October 2013, the Human Brain Project (HBP) was sold by charismatic neurobiologist Henry Markram as a bold new ...
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World woefully under supporting Ebola response

Laurie Garret | 
World, you still just don't get it. The Ebola epidemic that is raging across West Africa, killing more than half ...

23andMe focuses on data portal for researchers

Heather Somerville | 
In less than a decade, biotech company 23andMe has turned a refrigerator full of spit into one of the largest ...

Moving closer to GM cup of coffee

Rachel Feltman | 
A consortium of scientists announced in Science that they've sequenced the coffee genome for the first time. By determining all of the ...

Both small and large farms are needed for ‘optimal’ sustainable farming system

Tamar Haspel | 
Small farms are inefficient but are more likely to grow healthful foods and might be more environmentally friendly, while large ...

UK Parliament begins discussion of “3-parent IVF”

Pete Shanks | 
The British government continues to move toward legalizing a form of inheritable genetic modification that would combine eggs or embryos ...
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Genetic short cuts: Horizontal gene transfer

Meredith Knight | 
Some plants rely on specialized bacterial backup to help them synthesize nutrients. Instead of evolving these traits over and over ...
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