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CRISPR shows promise against a ‘range of disorders’ in animal studies

Michael Le Page | 
The race is on to edit the DNA in our body to fight or prevent disease. Promising results from animal ...
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Treating aggressive brain cancer with poliovirus

Ricki Lewis | 
The idea of using a modified poliovirus as a treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer isn't new. But recent research shows ...
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CRISPR ear injections repair genetic hearing loss in mice

Antonio Regalado | 
We all know that CRISPR is the next big thing in gene-editing treatments. But how do you get the versatile genetic scissors ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – Oct. 2, 2017

Tale of two neonicotinoid bumble bee studies—And how science can be massaged | Jon Entine Upchuck factor: Alcoholism targeted with novel ...
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Insomnia cures: Do drug remedies provide the kind of sleep that our brain needs?

Ben Locwin | 
People spend billions on sleep remedies. The act of sleep and artificially assisting sleep are not on the whole a ...
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15 years in vegetative slumber, man stirs after brain stimulation

Sharon Begley | 
Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35-year-old Frenchman ...
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Postpartum depression: It impacts dads, too

Darby Saxbe | 
Postpartum depression affects fathers, too. Men experience lower testosterone levels throughout pregnancy and paternal care, increasing the chance of depression ...
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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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Baby or your life: Pregnant women with cancer face impossible choice

Jamie Wells | 
Sadly, a woman’s tragic story-- recently all over the news-- plays out in the real world more often than people may ...
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Human embryoids push bioethical boundaries

Antonio Regalado | 
Scientists are using stem cells to create clumps of cells that increasingly resemble bits of brain, lungs, or intestine. […] ...
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‘Information bottleneck’ theory could help crack human learning mysteries

Natalie Wolchover | 
Even as machines known as “deep neural networks” have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures ...
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Seeking human consciousness at the cellular level

Anna Azvolinsky | 
To define human consciousness at the neuronal level is among the most difficult of tasks for neuroscience. Still, researchers have ...
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Using Zika in the fight against deadly brain cancer

Sean Hall | 
With traditional cancer-fighting tools--surgery, radiation and chemotherapy--proving ineffective against glioblastoma tumors, researchers are exploring an unconventional treatment using a weakened ...
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Air pollution, while abating in most places, poses ‘greatest threat to public health?’

Laura Biel | 
Even with vast improvements in air quality since the ’70s, people haven’t stopped dying from the air they breathe. An ...
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Bible and the brain: How did ancient Israelites ‘hear’ God?

Sigal Samuel | 
James Kugel has been spent his entire scholarly career studying the Bible, but some very basic questions about it still ...
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Mini ‘brains’ aid study of dementia and mental illness

Russ Juskalian | 
[A] brain organoid begins as a single skin cell taken from an adult. With the right biochemical prodding, that cell ...
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Children receive four times as many genetic mutations from dads than moms

Ian Sample | 
Children inherit four times as many new mutations from their fathers than their mothers, according to research that suggests faults ...
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Upchuck factor: Alcoholism targeted with novel gene therapy

Ricki Lewis | 
Researchers are exploring the use of a naturally occurring mutation that causes people to get sick after drinking alcohol. The ...
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Alzheimer’s ‘brain health’ quiz likely to scare more than help

Steven Lubet | 
Critics question the integrity of a risk assessment sent to prospective patients by NorthShore University Health System's Center for Brain ...
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Questioning the promise of anonymity for DNA donors

Frida Holme | 
Thousands of human genomes have been collected by research institutions around the world in recent years, as they attempt to find ...
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Genetic mutation causes insulin production without eating carbs

Researchers have discovered how a genetic mutation may lead to excess production of insulin, a condition known as congenital hyperinsulinism, ...
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Orthorexia nervosa: Do anti-GMO activists have this ‘eating disorder’?

David Warmflash | 
Orthorexia nervosa is being evaluated as a possible psychiatric diagnosis -- which is causing symptoms of anxiety among some people ...
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Transhumanism and inequality: Enhancing human life could bring dystopian consequences

Alexander Thomas | 
Transhumanism may offer a pathway to an 'engineered paradise,' but there are many perils and pitfalls ahead -- particularly for ...
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Psychologists downplay role of genetics in mental health

Sarah Knapton | 
While there has been some success in uncovering genes which make people more susceptible to various disorders, specialists say that ...
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Is scientific neutrality being lost to commercialism?

Hilary Rose | 
In the past few decades, the life sciences have been transformed into gigantic bio-technosciences, blurring the boundaries between science and ...
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Extreme Male Brain Theory? Girls with autism have characteristically more masculine faces

Jessica Firger | 
A new study suggests that boys and girls with autism have facial features that are characteristically more male than female. [...] ...
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Multiple sclerosis added to list of diseases exacerbated by gut microbes

Giorgia Gugliemi | 
The trillions of bacteria that live in our intestines, known collectively as the gut microbiome, have been linked to maladies ...
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