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Alert for athletes and astronauts: Gene editing moving into clinics, results promising

David Warmflash | 
An elite athlete, a mountain climber, an aspiring astronaut or test pilot—any of these might be a good candidate for ...
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Extending healthy life through gene manipulation: Sounds cool but it’s complicated

David Warmflash | 
There has been a recent flurry of news and excitement about tracing the the genetics of athletic ability, effects of ...
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Why this year’s flu vaccine wasn’t great and what can be done

Arvind Suresh | 
The unusually poor effectiveness of this year's flu vaccine calls for renewed efforts to create better vaccines, faster. What do ...
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Nanotechnology and medicine: Coming of microscopic machines that treat disease

Ben Locwin | 
It’s been the stuff of science fiction: Sending miniaturized machines through the human body to repair organs internally, without the ...
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Are we locked into our biological clocks? Night shift workers want to know

Arvind Suresh | 
What are the risks of altering our biological clocks with long term rotating shift work? Can the biolgical clock be ...
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Cancer, bad luck and some lessons in science reporting

Arvind Suresh | 
The controversy surrounding a study that suggests cancer is mostly due to bad luck has some lessons for science reporting ...
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Worried you have cancer? Take a Google pill!

Jane Palmer | 
Google X, Google’s research unit, is working on technology that combines disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via ...
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Can humans really tell apart a trillion smells?

Jane Palmer | 
New research questions study that claimed humans can discriminate 1 trillion smells. Scientists do belieive that there is a chance ...
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Why did some experimental HIV vaccines increase risk of infection?

Arvind Suresh | 
Several experimental HIV vaccines have not only failed but in some cases have increased the risk of infection. A new ...
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Private umbilical cord cell banking: Good idea or scam?

David Warmflash | 
You only have to Google search “cord blood” or similar phrases, or even just read an article about pregnancy and ...
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Viruses that make us smarter? Not really

Arvind Suresh | 
News reports about viral gene fragments in the human genome making us smarter exagerate claims made by the research study ...
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Apple juice may help ward off Alzheimer’s disease

Ben Locwin | 
Emerging evidence suggests nutrition plays a more critical role in neurodegeneration than originally thought. As little as two glasses of ...
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Is obesity rooted in your genes? Not exactly

Ben Locwin | 
In what seems to be another piece of evidence in favor of genes being impacted in differential ways over time ...
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Can we yet use genetics to determine which sports are best for our kids?

David Warmflash | 
Can you choose sport based on your biology, or better yet a sport that might be good for your kids? ...
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Genes have a time clock, new obesity study reveals

Arvind Suresh | 
Although genes drive many human behaviors, new research suggests their impact changes over time—when the environment changes so does the ...
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Malaria vaccine? Genetic engineering turns parasite into vaccine candidate

Kenrick Vezina | 
By knocking out key genes, researchers have created a version of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that is harmless yet still ...
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Can chemicals evolve? Testing recipes for the origin of life

Arvind Suresh | 
Scientists are testing the ability of simple chemicals to evolve under the guidance of a robot. Could this be one ...
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Searching for messages from ET in life’s Genetic Code

David Warmflash | 
Did human life begin on Planet Earth or was life seeded by another civilization in a distant galaxy? As proposterous ...
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Gene Therapy 3.0: Rise and fall and rise again of gene therapy–For real this time?

Arvind Suresh | 
Gene therapy is seeing a renaissance after a long period of skepticism about its failed potential. What are the new ...
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Too much and too little: Delicate balance of knowing risk and treating disease

Meredith Knight | 
One woman seeks out her genetic risk for familial breast cancer and finds she has a potentially lethal mutation for ...
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Forced sterilization in Peru: Did modern eugenic practices slow population growth?

Arvind Suresh | 
The Peruvian government is alleged to have used coercive methods to sterilize thousands of indigenous women and men to control ...
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Genetic information: How much to share, how much to keep private in age of Big Data

David Warmflash | 
Genetics and computational biology are evolving so quickly that it’s impossible to predict the medical answers that they’ll reveal in ...
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Tired? Biological clock out of whack? Blame genes and epigenetics

Ben Locwin | 
We spend a third of our life asleep, so getting it right is important. Researchers probing our daily biological clock—our ...
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Slowing the aging process: How the Mediterranean diet preserves your chromosomal telomeres

David Warmflash | 
People who stick closely to a Mediterranean diet were found to have longer telomeres—a biomarker of aging found at the ...
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DNA of Niemann-Pick disease victims might offer clues in finding Ebola cure

David Warmflash | 
Niemann-Pick is a debilitating disease that retards movement and development of an infants ability to think and reason, as if ...
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Personal genomics and gene editing revolutions beg for global regulatory rethink

Meredith Knight | 
The scientific impact of personalized genome editing is easy to imagine: Designer babies, lab grown meat and the end of ...
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Warrior genes? Genetic screens for “evil” traits likely to remain science fiction, at least for now

David Warmflash | 
The idea that people who are might commit a crime can be identified in advance of any wrong doing has ...
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