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Cutting calories likely lengthens lifespans—but why?

Bailey Kirkpatrick | 
Nearly a century ago, researchers discovered that cutting calorie intake was actually able to extend lifespan in various animal species ...
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Viewpoint: Is having children immoral?

David Benatar | 
[Editor's note: David Benatar is a professor of philosophy and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Cape Town, ...
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Innovative CAR-T cancer treatments offer cures–and sometimes high risks

Kevin Pels | 
[T]here’s a reason CAR-T is reserved for [cancer] patients that fail to improve under front-line treatments: it comes with horrid side ...
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Are we on the brink of another smallpox outbreak?

Gregory Koblentz | 
[Editor's note: Gregory Koblentz is a professor and director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at the Schar School of Policy and ...
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Android intimacy: Drawing the line between science and human

Alex Mar | 
Today, the technical ability to produce a robot that truly looks and moves and speaks like a human remains well ...
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Genetically modified skin grafts could monitor glucose, end needle sticks for diabetes

Daisy Yuhas | 
Painful and inconvenient, needle sticks are part of daily life for many people with diabetes. Wouldn’t it be great if ...
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First alien life forms we encounter could well be robots

Bob Waugh | 
[T]he first aliens we encounter are likely to be machines, and they’ll be almost unimaginably old. Susan Schneider of the ...
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Why we shouldn’t be afraid of human gene editing

Dave Gammon | 
[Editor's note: Dave Gammon is an associate professor of biology at Elon University.] Many feel a visceral dread that scientists ...
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Viewpoint: Overly strict human gene-editing regulations let patients suffer and die

Henry Miller | 
[Editor’s note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
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We’re a long way from Blade Runner-like organic androids

Fumiya Iida | 
[Editor's note: Fumiya Iida is a lecturer in mechatronics at the University of Cambridge.] The new Blade Runner sequel will return ...
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Is sexual orientation ‘gaydar’ detection machine sound or ethical?

Heather Murphy | 
[Michal Kosinski] decided to show that it was possible to use facial recognition analysis to detect something intimate, something “people ...
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Human extinction could come within 5,100 years

Christopher Ingraham | 
Every day, it seems, brings with it fresh new horrors. Mass murder. Catastrophic climate change. Nuclear annihilation. It's all enough to make a ...
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Is life-extending modern medicine ‘unnatural?’

Elena Milova, Steve Hill | 
The word ‘unnatural’ conjures up feelings of doom and dread, and it is unfortunately often used by critics of science ...
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Why won’t pharmaceutical companies invest in male birth control?

Kristen Brown | 
Male birth control is the great promise that never was. We’ve been just a few years away from a male ...
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Biohacker: How to genetically modify yourself

Adele Peters | 
“What we’ve got here is some DNA, and this is a syringe,” Josiah Zayner tells a room full of synthetic ...
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Mass tragedies underscore desperate need for synthetic blood

Ankita Rao | 
Scientists have been working on creating synthetic blood for years now. The hope is that this substance will have a ...
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Different types of meditations affect your brain in unique ways

Caroline Williams | 
We are used to hearing that meditation is good for the brain, but now it seems that not just any kind ...
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Data storage may be coming to a molecule near you

Catherine Offord | 
[George Church] and two Harvard colleagues translated an HTML draft of a 50,000-word book on synthetic biology, coauthored by Church, ...
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Has the evolution of artificial intelligence reached its limits?

James Somers | 
But the peculiar thing about deep learning is just how old its key ideas are. Hinton’s breakthrough paper...was published in ...
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Viewpoint: What are the odds on the future of humanity?

Caleb Scharf | 
The more we learn about the history of our own world, and the wider solar system, the more we see ...
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Who gave humans genital herpes? Maybe this ancient ancestor

Dana Dovey | 
Genital herpes infects about one in six American adults. But who was patient zero, the individual responsible for this irritating scourge? Researchers in ...
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Is society ready or willing to embrace an Artificial Intelligence deity?

Olivia Solon | 
Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley ...
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Flu vaccine works better on some younger people—if you have the right genetics

Aimee Cunningham | 
Nine genes are tied to a strong immune response to the flu vaccine in people 35 and under, a new ...
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Beyond designer babies: What’s the future of ‘bio-modifications’?

Sarah Marryman | 
Vanderbilt University professor Michael Bess's presentation, “Our Grandchildren Redesigned,” was presented at the Dawn or Doom conference on [September 27]. Bess ...
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Modified polio virus could be used as cancer treatment

Andrew Masterson | 
A protein common on some types of cancer cell turns out to be the same one that in other circumstances ...
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Tubular cell ‘highways’ could change what we know about cell interactions

Monya Baker | 
[Researcher Yukiko Yamashita’s] group had been studying how fruit flies maintain their sperm supply and had engineered certain cells involved ...
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Viewpoint: Inequality rooted in social conditions not biology

Michael White | 
[Editor's note: Michael White is a professor of genetics at Washington University in St. Louis.] America, we've had a long ...
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