Wade responds to racial controversy over his book ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’

Nicholas Wade | 
hree attacks on my book A Troublesome Inheritance have appeared on The Huffington Post's blog this month. For readers puzzled ...
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Beliefs about creationism not good test of public’s science literacy

Dan Kahan | 
When asked if they believe in evolution, half of Americans say no. Experts largely regard this as a test of ...
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Justice requires that forensic sciences be standardized to protect the innocent

Virginia Hughes | 
Santae Tribble is one of more than 350 people who have been exonerated by DNA testing after going to prison ...

First avian pollinator discovered: 47 million years old

Traci Watson | 
The discovery, uncovered in Germany's fossil-rich Messel Pit, reveals a three-inch-long (eight-centimeter) bird—about the size of a hummingbird you see ...
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Predicting behavior based on our genes just got more complicated

Jeffrey Marlow | 
How can we predict organisms behavior and physiology from their genomes? The language of DNA was always thought to be ...

Mexican surrogacy hospital accused of defrauding dozens of couples

Since 2006, the California-based medical tourism company had helped Americans with surrogacy and other medical practices in India. But when ...

Marmosets offer clue to human stillbirths, programmed while mom is in grandma’s womb

Carl Zimmer | 
One way to learn about reproductive health is to observe how our primate cousins have babies. And a new study ...

RIKEN stem cell scientist Obokata may retract stem cell paper

David Cyranoski | 
Reports in Japan suggest Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, has agreed to retract one ...
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Bum knees? Sports stars like CC Sabathia find success in experimental stem cell treatments

Pete Shanks | 
CC Sabathia, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, is making $23 million this year, and the same or ...

Hawaiian crickets escape parasite through gene mutations that keep them quiet

Ed Yong | 
The crickets hadn’t disappeared. Marlene Zuk would go for nighttime walks and see multitudes of the insects in the light ...

Wisconsin allows police to track rape suspects through relatives’ DNA

Andy Thompson | 
Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure — to ...
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“Outbreak” redux: Is lab research on influenza worth the risk of a pandemic?

Kenrick Vezina | 
What happens when you mix human error, deadly disease and lab animals? Hollywood would have us believe imminent disaster. Fear ...

European Comission rejects citizen group’s plea to ban all human embryo research

The European Commission has today replied to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) 'One of Us'. After having met with the ...

DNA of colorblindness: One woman’s take on how the genetic lottery shaped her family

Eryn Brown | 
My 7-year-old son has fallen in love with Rainbow Loom, the wildly popular sets of pegs and rubber bands kids ...

Father’s age may be overblown as risk factor for autism

Daniel Weinberger | 
It’s difficult to pick up a newspaper these days and not see a reference to the apparent increase in the ...

After mapping human genome, scientists release catalog of proteins that help make them work

Francie Diep | 
Two teams of scientists are publishing first drafts of the human proteome. The proteome is a catalog of all of ...

Personalized precision cancer treatments tailored to your genes improving but hurdles high

Lauren Gravitz | 
Elaine Mardis and her colleagues first encountered 39-year-old Lucy in 2010 at the Genome Institute at Washington University in St ...

Gene therapy hot again as success stories roll in

Laura Cassiday | 
In the early 2000s, gene therapy seemed to be on life support. The once-promising technique, which uses engineered viruses and ...
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Cold case: Cryogenics may enter modern emergency care

Helen Thomson | 
Cryogenic preservation has long been fodder for science fiction films. But, emergency room doctors in Pittsburgh hope to save severely ...

23andMe CEO discusses future of direct-to-consumer genetic testing company

Stephanie Lee | 
Six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration ordered 23andMe, the Google-backed genetic-testing startup, to stop selling saliva kits designed ...

Gene variations cause spiny sea bass to look dramatically different as babies and adults

Jennifer Frazer | 
Among divers and marine biologists, it’s common knowledge that ocean fish lead double lives. Like birds and butterflies, their young ...

Circadian rhythm of water transport protein affects skin cycles throughout the day

Ann Lukits | 
Researchers have discovered a protein that regulates the circadian ebb and flow of water in and out of the skin's ...

Old immunotherapy drug revived with some treatment tweeks

Heidi Ledford | 
When Dave deBronkart was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer in 2007, he learned about a treatment called high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) ...

Genetic susceptibility and well-timed exposures responsible for adult allergies

Heidi Mitchell | 
Allergies are largely genetic. If a parent has allergies, chances are good the children will too. But that doesn't necessarily ...
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Antibiotics can harm even when they work, contributing to allergies, diabetes, maybe autism

Debora MacKenzie | 
Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs. New Scientist has ...
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Chicken Coop project traces genetics, history of multi-talented domestic chicken

Kenrick Vezina | 
Who cares how the chicken crossed the road; the intriguing question is now did it become such a multi-tasker. Nature's ...

Meet the coolest new species discovered in 2014

A top 10 list of species discovered in the last 12 months is topped by the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), a ...
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