Quest for answers on aging and longevity

Frailty is a common condition associated with old age, characterized by weight loss, weakness, decreased activity level and reduced mobility, ...
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Your brain is making subliminal, near-instantaneous judgements of people based on their faces

Kenrick Vezina | 
Your brain is making a snap judgement on the trustworthiness of each stranger you see based on their faces -- ...

Fungus devastating frog populations by altering genome

Krishna Ramanujan | 
A deadly fungus has decimated certain populations of amphibians globally for the past few decades, but scientists remain unclear about ...

Stem cells advance personalized treatment for GI problems

Jim Dryden | 
A method of growing human cells from tissue removed from a patient’s gastrointestinal (GI) tract eventually may help scientists develop ...
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Anti-GMO claim examined: Does genetic engineering foster monoculture?

Steve Savage | 
Do GMO crops "foster monoculture?" Plant pathologist Steve Savage dives into the cropping histories of the Midwest's Corn Belt and ...
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How does GMO corn roots resist disease?

Food for Thought Blog | 
Corn Roots - GMO on the left, non-GMO on the right. Corn rootworms (insect) have caused damage to the roots ...

GMOs + tobacco = life saving vaccines

Erin Digitale | 
Plants could act as safe, speedy factories for personalized treatments against a common form of cancer, according to recent findings ...
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Taking ancestry into account with personalized medicine

Kenrick Vezina | 
A study of Mexican genetics reveals staggering diversity. In an increasingly globalized world, with human populations mixing at unprecedented rates, ...
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Who wants to live to forever?

Barry Gibb | 
When does a 7-year-old consider the onset of old age to begin? What about when he’s 70? Ameliorating aging comes ...

Rethinking stigma against GM meat

Josh Barrie | 
Genetic modification is an inflammatory subject. Especially when it comes to food. Crops are one thing, but the idea of ...

‘Quack’ American Academy of Environmental Science issues false statements about GMO safety

Eric Lindborg | 
I write in response to Donna Worden’s letter of July 12. I was surprised by the citing of the American Academy ...

UK considers benefits and risks of ‘three-parent’ IVF

Stephen Wilkinson | 
The UK Parliament will soon consider making Britain the first country to allow three person IVF. The regulations are yet to be ...

How nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine

Guizhi Zhu | 
In a 1959 lecture at Caltech famously dubbed “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” American physicist and Nobel laureate–to-be ...

Are bacterial disease epidemics triggered by environmental changes?

Researchers have traced genetic changes in a bacterial pathogen over 450 years, and claim that epidemics of bacterial disease in ...

Mutation may be responsible for diabetes risk in Mexican population

A research team directed by Dr. Karol Estrada analyzed genetic sequencing of 8000 Mexicans and found a mutated gene related ...
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Cancer genomes to enter private practice

Meredith Knight | 
New technology promises quick turn around for cancer genome testing, but do we understand tumor DNA well enough to capitalize? ...
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Only need four hours of sleep per night? New-found ‘Thatcher’ gene mutation may explain why

Kenrick Vezina | 
Do you have a friend who can get by on just a few hours of sleep without any ill effects? ...
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GMO tobacco ‘mystery serum’ rescues Ebola virus victims

Meredith Knight | 
Two American healthcare workers infected with Ebola virus in Liberia received an experimental antibody serum created with genetically engineered tobacco ...

Scientist delaying own treatment to advance breast cancer research

Beth Greenfield | 
Mother, grandmother, and biomedical scientist Kimberly Koss of Ohio is battling a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, called ...

Canadian scientists develop new, quicker technique for genomic analysis

Scientists from McGill University and the Génome Québec Innovation Centre say they have achieved a technical advance that could result in speedier ...

Epigenetics may explain Neanderthals’ extinction

Virginia Hughes | 
Late last year, scientists unveiled the complete genome of a female Neanderthal whose 130,000-year-old toe bone had been found in a cave in Siberia ...

Efforts to cure rare genetic diseases target people who conquered them

Jon White | 
Biologist Stephen Friend is president and co-founder of the nonprofit research organization Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, and co-director of the ...

Five new genetic markers for pancreatic cancer identified

Catharine Paddock | 
After comparing the DNA of thousands of people with and without the disease, a new study has identified five genetic ...
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10,000 hours of practice leads to mastery? That’s not what our genes say.

Kenrick Vezina | 
Talent, as encoded in our genes, may mean more than practice when it comes to mastery. Identical twins who practiced ...
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How much of human DNA is doing something?

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
How much of the human genome is functional? Depends on what you mean by "functional." Two studies that seem to ...
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What the F@$! is Synthetic Biology?

Maxx Chatsko | 
Synthetic biology is often portrayed as the Next New Thing, a development that will revolutionize the way we think of ...

UK genetics research making strides in cancer and rare disease treatment

James Gallagher | 
Prime Minister David Cameron has said it "will see the UK lead the world in genetic research within years." The ...
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