Health
Latvian women, Dutch men world’s tallest nationalities
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals. The average ...
Can gene therapy reverse aging?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September 2015, [Elizabeth] ...
Genetic analysis may predict students’ academic success
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Teachers and parents may ...
Why do we sleep?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. why do we sleep? ...
Discovery of fire likely evolutionary boon for early humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How and when did ...
US government seeking 1 million volunteers for decade-long genetics and lifestyle study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Government scientists are seeking ...
Women may be more resilient to Alzheimer’s genes than men
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Certain gene variants are ...
Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides
Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides ...
After 8 years and $8 million, gene therapy begins for 12-year-old with rare neurological disorder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [July 21, 2016], 8 ...
Another modern myth: Shrinking attention spans
Are modern conveniences and technology causing our attention spans to shrink? No, actually they're just adapting ...
Primates, bacteria of microbiome evolved together
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The symbiotic relationship between ...
Thousands of studies over 3 decades may have used contaminated or misidentified cell lines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The problem is this: ...
In ‘Redesigning Life’, analysis of ethical issues of gene editing falls short
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In Redesigning Life, molecular ...
CRISPR gene editing could eliminate AIDS virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ... The problem faced ...
What happens when we die? Microbes in your ‘necrobiome’ take over body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What happens when we ...
Treatment used for wound healing may reverse menopause, restoring menstruation and fertility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MENOPAUSE need not be ...
Synthetic bacteria programmed to deliver cancer drugs inside body directly to tumor
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A synthetic genetic circuit ...
Human Connectome Project maps brain’s cortex into 180 distinct compartments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new brain map, ...
Anti-biotech hidden agenda: Link GMO feed to conventional dairy products to scare adoption of organics
Why is organic dairy, which industry leaders call a "gateway product", so important to anti-GMO movement? ...
First human CRISPR trial to be conducted in China to treat lung cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chinese scientists are on ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
What’s behind expansion of personalization of healthcare?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the Cleveland ...
Autism in our DNA? Slew of studies points to genetics as main driver, but there is no ‘autism gene’
Researchers are unlocking the mystery of autism's origin. Yes, it's mostly 'in the genes,' but what that means is one ...
MRI scan could replace IQ test for measuring human intelligence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [A] new MRI scanning technique could ...
UK House of Lords approves trials with GM mosquitoes to fight insect-borne diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The House of Lords, ...
Why we don’t test GMOs like pharmaceuticals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A very common question ...
DNA pioneer James Watson calls Obama’s cancer moonshot initiative ‘crap’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. James Watson, whose 1953 ...