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Digitizing DNA: Real reasons to worry about cyberbiosecurity

Jean Peccoud, Jenna Gallegos | 
The intersection between biology and digital technology opens the door for incredible discoveries, but also creates opportunities for dangerous events, ...
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How the genetics revolution is upending our concept of disease—and how that could improve healthcare

Arthur Caplan | 
What is a disease? This seemingly abstract and theoretical question is actually among the most practical questions in all of ...
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Exploring the alternate reality of Natural News’ Mike Adams’ online ’empire of misinformation’

Jonathan Jarry | 
If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its ...
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Transforming modern medicine doesn’t have to be high tech or expensive

Henry Miller | 
While intricate high-tech breakthroughs are incredible, it's important to realize the value of low-cost and low-tech ingenuity ...
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Getting to the roots of insomnia and what you can do about it

Ben Locwin | 
Ever struggle with sleep? Almost all of us will at some point our lifetime. Several factors are at play--including travel ...
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Biodiversity is more than just beauty: ‘It is the very apparatus that holds us steady’

Elizabeth Boakes | 
Biodiversity is integral to life, but is more than just a huge number of species: It also represents the variations ...
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Are consumer genetic tests misused by doctors and alternative health providers?

David Warmflash | 
Health practitioners with little or no training or perspective in genetics are dabbling in this rapidly advancing field. Utilizing results ...
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How the vampire bat came to feed on blood, and what we can learn from its droppings

Ricki Lewis | 
Why do the three species of vampire bats eat only blood, compared to the 1,240 other species that are perfectly ...
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Understanding the genetics of height—and why it matters in the fight against many human disorders

Jennifer Cable | 
Hoping to help researchers find links between diseases and mutations, the UK Biobank opened its vault last summer, allowing access ...
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Reinforcing the human heart: Integrating human cells, electronics and nanomaterials

David Warmflash | 
Future of heart care: Cardiac patch that doesn't merely beat, but also provides monitoring and, if needed, electrical stimulation and ...
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Why biodiversity might not always be such a good thing for our health

Christie Wilcox | 
While some think of the "dilution effect" as settled science, some ecologists argue that claiming conservation will broadly reduce disease ...
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With imaging advances, brain researchers no longer rely on cadavers and freak accidents

David Warmflash | 
The increased use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a research tool could lead to better understanding of a wide ...
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Chasing the ‘warrior gene’ and why it looks like a dud so far

Kristen Hovet | 
The year is 2025. The US has gone to war. Young Americans are being conscripted in droves, and those with ...
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Cancer quest: Moonshot initiative melds genetic data with supercomputers, but keep expectations in check

Rachel Lynch | 
It’s been two years since the Cancer Moonshot Initiative was unveiled during President Obama’s final State of the Union speech ...
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Piecing together the complex puzzle of the brain’s decision-making functions

Anne Churchland | 
A group of 21 neuroscientists are joining forces in an effort to better understand how different parts of the brain ...
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Extraterrestrial life may have different chemistry, but evolutionary forces will be Earth-like

David Warmflash | 
If the forces of natural selection have shaped the development of life on Earth, there's no reason to believe those ...
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Do cell phones cause cancer? Unlikely, but activists are skeptical of journalists who present the facts

Michael Schulson | 
While it has been theorized that radiation from cellphone usage has the ability to cause cancer, there is no evidence ...
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Olympic gene doping: How WADA is managing new performance-enhancing technologies

Sean Hall | 
The start of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang has once again brought questions of unethical athletic performance-enhancement, or doping, to ...
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Viewpoint: Self-diagnosed celiac disease is just the latest diet obsession of wealthy white people

Hank Campbell | 
There are people who are allergic to gluten. But the recent surge in self-diagnosed Celiac sufferers is little more than ...
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The quest for youth, and what our genes have to say about it

Andrew Porterfield | 
Why do some people seem to age faster than others? The answer may lie in our epigenetics ...
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Viewpoint: Public enthusiasm for genetics tempered by distrust, privacy concerns

Jim Kozubek | 
Cheaper genome sequencing is expanding our ability to understand risks associated with genetic mutations. But not everyone embraces these advances, ...
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Gene-editing advances put us at the dawn of a revolution in medicine

Steven Cerier | 
So much of the public's attention is focused on the use of genetic engineering in the crops that our farmers ...
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Incurable arthritic knees? Gene therapy offers new hope

Ricki Lewis | 
Imagine a single injection into the knee vanquishing painful arthritis — forever. Gene therapies aimed at two molecular targets could ...
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Viewpoint: We aren’t even close to being able to engineer superhumans

Jim Kozubek | 
We know there are genes that contribute to intelligence. But the relationship between those genes and our intelligence is so ...
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State of mind: Will computers learn to act and think like we do?

Subhash Kak | 
The technology that drives artificial intelligence is constantly moving forward. But will machines every gain the human equivalent of a ...
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‘Brain banks’: Why these scientists want your brain

Rae Ellen Bichell | 
Researchers are striving to build collections of brains free of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. A stronger base of ...
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NBC News’ Richard Engel’s son diagnosed with Rett syndrome. Why that’s such a rarity

Ricki Lewis | 
The Today Show recently reported the sad story of Henry Engel—the toddler son of correspondent Richard Engel and his wife Mary Forrest who ...
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