Employees can protect themselves against workplace genetic discrimination

Jeremy Gruber | 
As genetic testing and genetic information become increasingly available, it is critical that   employers have a full understanding of current ...

UV light absorbtion drove benefit of light skin mutations in human evolution

The popular idea that Northern Europeans developed light skin to absorb more UV light so they could make more vitamin ...
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Anti-GMO advocates try to scare diabetics off life-saving genetically engineered drug treatment

Meredith Knight | 
Usually food-obsessed anti-GMO advocates have turned their sights toward one of modern technology’s must prized successes: genetically engineered synthetic human ...

Woman seeks to ban surrogacy

Susan Donaldson James | 
Jennifer Lahl is on a crusade to outlaw surrogacy, the process by which women lend their wombs to would-be mothers ...

Payout deadline approaches for North Carolina forced sterilization victims

Jerome Bailey | 
In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Carolina operating room because she was having a miscarriage, the ...

Faced with a sick brother, reporter wonders whether to get DNA tested

Mona Gable | 
In the fall of 2010, as my brother was dying of colon cancer, I learned a terrifying secret. He also ...

Including vasectomies in court sentencing new eugenics

Amanda Marcotte | 
Put this in the "can they even do that?" files. Jesse Lee Herald of Edinburg, Virginia, received an unusual sentence ...

Early human inter-species breeding results point to fourth mystery species

Lisa Winter | 
The evolutionary tree for modern humans a bit of a mess - humans haven’t had a close relative on this ...

Call for integrity for stem cell research amid global controversy

Pete Shanks | 
Scientists around the world are campaigning in favor of sensible regulation of stem-cell therapies. We have two reactions: (1) kudos ...
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Shaking up science with transgenerational epigenetics and blurred species boundaries

Kenrick Vezina | 
A "top five ideas shaking up science" list from The Guardian and author Michael Brooks hits on two of the ...

Exercise, stress speeds brain’s ability to repair iteself

Simon Makin | 
Running helps mice to recover from a type of blindness caused by sensory deprivation early in life, researchers report. The ...

Speciation is a human construct, sometimes genetics often don’t overlap

Razib Khan | 
Scientific taxonomy is only a rough and approximate mapping of the reality of natural history and evolutionary genetics, which it ...

Gamete freezing offers promise of prolonging fertility but is far from perfect

Doree Shafrir | 
I told my therapist that I was considering freezing my eggs, and she said she thought it was a good ...

Will synthetic biology suffer from same taboos as GMOs?

Meredith Salisbury | 
Science and industry are marching along with advances from this relatively new form of biological engineering, especially in the areas ...

Genesis and ethics of embryo’s conceived with help of a third parent

Kim Tingley | 
In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named Maureen Ott ...
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Picture of risk: One family’s story of the threat of genetic disease

Lauren Weinstein | 
When a fetus may have a genetic condition, parents face a great deal of uncertainty when evaluating risk for their ...
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T-cells trained to fight viruses offer hope for bone marrow transplant patients

Kenrick Vezina | 
A team at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas has devised a much more efficient method for 'training' killer ...
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What is ‘precision medicine’?

Kavin Senapathy | 
The future of precision medicine means every patient will have treatments and prevention tailored to his or her genes and ...

Claim Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of pagan Khazars who converted in Middle Ages confirmed as myth

Ofer Aderet | 
The claim that today’s Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars who converted in the Middle Ages is a myth, according ...

Fly gene may explain human language evolution

The evolution of language in humans continues to perplex scientists and linguists who study how humans learn to communicate. Considered ...

Reverse reefer madness? Schizophrenia genes predict heavy pot use

Geoffrey Mohan | 
Does marijuana smoking cause psychosis? Or could psychosis drive pot smoking? If you believe the panned and parodied 1936 film ...

Fetal genome sequencing must strike balance of too much information

Randy Rieland | 
Once you go beyond looking for specific genetic mutations—such as those that cause Down syndrome or cystic fibrosis—and begin exploring ...

Nature vs. nurture affects how we age

What makes us age biologically? We have always been intrigued by this question. Yet, it remains a fundamental research challenge ...

To acquire all blood diet, vampire bats lost genes for bitter taste

Gemma Tarlach | 
Vampire bats have lousy taste. But they’re not bitter about it. According to research published today in Proceedings of the ...
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Shitty story: Oldest-ever human fossil feces suggests Neanderthal’s omnivory

Kenrick Vezina | 
Poop is the 'perfect evidence' when it comes to answering questions about diet, and a record-setting new find of fossilized ...

Genetics likely determine who benefits from vitamins in the developed world

Melinda Wenner Moyer | 
In 1911, Polish biochemist Casimir Funk discovered what was behind a then-mysterious neurological condition known as beriberi, common in regions ...

Brain cancer may have rogue stem cell origin, option for treatment

Paul Knoepfler | 
Glioblastoma and other related malignant glioma tumors including diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) are some of the most devastating of ...
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