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Stem cell therapy shows promise in toddler with Down syndrome

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A three-year-old baby -- born with Down syndrome and having subnormal motor skills -- has shown improvement after undergoing stem ...
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Can probiotics help those suffering with metabolic syndrome, obesity?

Elizabeth Jeffries | 
In recent years, efforts to manage metabolic syndrome have fallen in with the lucrative, but untested weight loss market. Chief ...
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Spread of pancreatic cancer fueled by epigenetic changes

Andrew Feinberg | 
[Editor's note: Excerpts are from an interview with Andrew Feinberg of Johns Hopkins, whose research shows how epigenetics affects the spread of ...
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Epigenetics Around the Web: Alzheimer’s drug moves closer to patients

Nicholas Staropoli | 
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of the latest studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented ...
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Society, not testosterone, is the driving force in sex, equality

Sarah Ditum | 
[Editor's note: Excerpts are from a review of a book by writer Cordelia Fine, who challenges the notion that testosterone ...
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Curiosity about ideas, experiences may be related to higher cognitive ability

Dom Galeon | 
[An international team of 60 researchers], led by Todd Lencz from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, studied the genes ...
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‘Three parent IVF’ produced a baby girl — that’s a problem according to critics

Susan Scutti | 
It was a first for the entire world: Using a controversial in vitro fertilization technique, doctors in Kiev, Ukraine, helped ...
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Birth language is retained, even if we never learned to speak it

Helen Briggs | 
Babies build knowledge about the language they hear even in the first few months of life, research shows. If you ...
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Does Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list discourage Americans from eating fresh produce?

Cara Rosenbloom | 
Editor's note: This article examines the potential influence of the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen list of foods with the ...
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Lack of exercise, as much as genetic factors, may contribute to dementia

Honor Whiteman | 
One of the biggest risk factors for Alzheimer's disease is the apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 gene. According to the Alzheimer's ...
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Heart defects in babies with cleft lip and palate linked to gene defect

Ana Sandoiu | 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that approximately 2,650 babies are born with a cleft palate every ...
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Healthy aging promoted by tweaking ‘old blood’

Jessica Hamzelou | 
The effects of blood on aging were first discovered in experiments that stitched young and old mice together so that ...
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Syndactyly: Family’s ‘fused fingers’ deformity sheds light on human genome

Natalie Angier | 
They said it was their family curse: a rare congenital deformity called syndactyly, in which the thumb and index finger ...
'Brain on a chip': In vitro model finds regional links to specific diseases, treatments

‘Brain on a chip’: In vitro model finds regional links to specific diseases, treatments

Dom Galeon | 
We have come a long way in our understanding of how the brain works, but the more we know about ...
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Stem cells lay foundation for treatments of cancer, other disorders

Andre Picard | 
[Stem cell research] is now considered among the most seminal medical findings of the past century, on a par with ...
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How do you know what information to trust about glyphosate, GMOs? Do a ‘SMELL test’

Gerald Pilger | 
Editor's Note: This article, written by Country Guide agriculture columnist Gerald Pilger, discusses how to determine whether an article is ...
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Glyphosate found in urine poses no health risk in German study

André Conrad et al. | 
... Glyphosate sales in Germany have increased substantially from ... 2000 to … 2014. The interim peak of approx. 7600 ...
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Even mild brain trauma could be dangerous for those at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

Catharine Paddock | 
Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury is a known risk factor for diseases that gradually destroy the brain - such as late-onset ...
Are we slowly breeding our way to stupidity?

Are we slowly breeding our way to stupidity?

Ian Sample | 
A study from Iceland is the latest to raise the prospect of a downwards spiral into imbecility...The scientists used a ...
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Stem cell revolution trudges forward

Shinya Yamanaka | 
[Editor's note: The following is excerpts from an interview with Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
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Genetic fingerprint explains prostate cancer’s aggressive growth

Canadian prostate cancer researchers have discovered the genetic fingerprint that explains why up to 30 percent of men with potentially ...
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Stem cells restore sight in lab mice with end-stage retinal degeneration

Tim Newman | 
The number of individuals who lose their sight due to end-stage retinal degeneration is steadily rising and currently, it cannot ...
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Trump administration’s three FDA commissioner picks all from venture capitalist sector

Dan Flynn | 
Something huge is going to be happening soon at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... it is all ...
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Hidden code regulates harmful mutations of our genome, aiding evolution

Jernej Ule | 
On the one hand, mutations are needed for biological innovation, and on the other hand they cause diseases. How does ...
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How bacteria inspired the birth of CRISPR gene editing

Lina Zeldovich | 
Within a few years, the study of CRISPR had moved beyond fundamental research into a full-fledged gene-editing revolution that enabled ...
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Genetics say your perfect mate is someone just like you

Dan Roe | 
If your genes can't have you all to themselves, they'll seek out the next best thing: A recent study on assortative mating ...
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Top 5 ‘post-truth’ anti-GMO headlines: Biologist critiques outrageous 2016 claims

Carol Lynn Curchoe | 
A reproductive biologist offers her take on the five most outrageous--but astronomically popular--anti-GMO advocacy blog headlines from last year, including ...
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