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Is human sexuality determined by testosterone’s effect on the brain?

Joe Herbert | 
[Early experiments have shown] that the Y chromosome is essential for the formation of a testis, and it is the ...
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Starving brain tumors by blocking enzyme could aid treatment

Amanda Porter | 
Cancer tumors, like other living cells, need to consume nutrients and oxygen to sustain themselves. However, as they often live ...
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Heroin vaccine could neutralize drug high using body’s immune system

Amanda Onion | 
As heroin-related deaths soar in the United States, a group of researchers said they may be one step closer to ...
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Modern people making Stone Age tools offers glimpse into evolution of intelligence

Shelby Putt | 
The brain networks we rely on for complex tasks were likely evolving around 1.8 million years ago--allowing our ancestors to ...
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Life hacking: Gene editing won’t solve all of society’s problems

Jim Kozubek | 
Science is threatening a new era of “market-based eugenics,” whereby gene editing in combination with in vitro fertilization techniques will ...
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Even moderate drinking may damage your brain and memory function

Ike Swetlitz | 
While it’s widely accepted that drinking too much is bad for you, conventional wisdom...says that alcohol can be consumed in ...
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Brain registers no fear: How rock climber conquered El Capitan without safety gear

Nate Scott | 
You may have already heard about Alex Honnold, who climbed the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any ...
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Epileptic seizures could be reduced by boosting micro-gene

Ana Sandoiu | 
[Epileptic] seizures can have genetic causes or can be triggered by different kinds of neural injury. All brains are prone ...
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Discovery of 315,000-year old human fossils may rewrite history of our ancestors

Ed Yong | 
[B]ones of the former occupants [of a Moroccan cave called Jebel Irhoud] have been recently unearthed by an international team ...
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Horizon ‘organic’ milk under fire for adding factory-produced algae oil to boost nutrition

Peter Whoriskey | 
Inside a South Carolina factory, in industrial vats that stand five stories high, batches of algae are carefully tended, kept ...
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Plagued by indecision? Drug may boost confidence, help treat schizophrenia, OCD

Helen Thomson | 
Life is full of decisions, and sometimes it’s difficult to know if you’re making the right one. But a drug ...
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Building a face ‘bit by bit’: Human recognition by monkeys

Laurel Hamers | 
A monkey’s brain builds a picture of a human face somewhat like a Mr. Potato Head — piecing it together ...
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Can plant seeds ‘decide’ when to germinate?

Andrew Masterson | 
Botanical orthodoxy holds that plant germination is a purely mechanistic process, driven entirely by external stimuli. The plant seed itself ...
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Can zapping our brains with electricity boost learning?

Shelly Fan | 
A new study sheds light on why transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) -- now being tried by do-it-yourselfers -- doesn't ...
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Back to life: Can controversial stem cell treatment revive brain-dead patients?

Kate Sheridan | 
For any given medical problem, it seems, there’s a research team trying to use stem cells to find a solution...But ...
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Bell Curve redux: Is the science of intelligence too taboo to research?

David Warmflash | 
A new study identified genes linked to intelligence while a recent interview of political scientist Charles Murray, co-author of The ...
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He/She: Brains of men and women hard-wired different because of hormones, genes

Bruce Goldman | 
[In the past, studying sex-based differences in the brain] was not a universally popular idea. The neuroscience community had largely ...
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How to resist health scares: Review of Geoffrey Kabat’s ‘Getting Risk Right’

Jon Entine | 
Public health regulations, particularly as regards to chemicals, are often driven by precautionary fears stirred by sloppy reporting sparked by ...
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Video: Genetically modified pollinating cyborg dragonfly drone takes flight

Sophie Weiner | 
[Editor's note: As has been previously reported, these dragonflies could be used for artificial pollination.] A new experiment bypasses the ...
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Parkinson’s target of China’s first clinical trial using embryonic stem cells

David Cyranoski | 
In the next few months, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will carefully drill through the skulls of people ...
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Is ADHD actually a sleep disorder?

Alice Klein | 
Could ADHD [be] a type of sleep disorder? After all, the brain pathways involved in paying attention have also been ...
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Question of intelligence: How much can we attribute to our genes?

Raffaele Ferrari | 
A new study offers evidence that intelligence is primarily affected by our genes. But that doesn't mean education, healthy living ...
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Careful, your brain may begin to eat itself if you don’t get enough sleep

Andy Coghlan | 
Burning the midnight oil may well burn out your brain. The brain cells that destroy and digest worn-out cells and ...
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Human ‘tree rings’? Neuroimaging predicts life span and brain age

Diana Kwon | 
In recent years, scientists have plumbed the molecular depths of the body and surfaced with tell-tale biomarkers of aging, some ...
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More women suffer from Alzheimer’s and shoulder caregiving

Roberta Brinton | 
Women make up nearly two-thirds of the more than 5 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease. A woman in her 60's is ...
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Flower power: Decoded sunflower genome could unlock increased oil, stress tolerance

Katie Horowitz | 
Take that, sunflowers. The convoluted genetic code that has thwarted scientists for so long has finally been cracked. Scientists published ...
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What role might genes play in ‘creating’ terrorists?

Andrew Porterfield | 
As more terrorism sweeps across the globe, scientists begin to look at a biological basis for organized violent behavior ...
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