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Scientists gradually identifying genes linked to depression

Malcolm Ritter | 
In a key advance for the study of depression, a comprehensive scan of human DNA has turned up the apparent ...
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DNA testing can take you on the ride of your lifetime

David Updike | 
Genealogy — thanks in part to genetic testing of companies like Ancestry.com, National Geographic and the PBS series “Finding Your ...
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German institute deploys transgenics to fight harmful insects without toxins

South America is fighting a battle against tiger mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, dengue fever and the Zika virus. In ...
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Autism-gene connections deepen, undermining GMO and vaccine claims

Megan Scudellari | 
A large proportion of autism research begins with and is centered upon external presentations of the disorder, primarily behavioral manifestations ...
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Humans who can’t feel pain pointing way to non-addictive painkillers

Meredith Knight | 
Genes linked to pain detection and perception may be physiological targets for new, non-addictive painkillers ...
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Is Alzheimer’s blood test too good to be true?

Anyone who has ever visited a doctor’s office is familiar with the use of blood tests for the diagnosis of ...
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Human enhancement revolution: Science and ethics in precarious balance

David Masci | 
Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. Up to this point in history, however, most biomedical interventions, ...

Great minds grow alike? Skulls of Neanderthals, modern humans show remarkable similarities

Colin Barras | 
Evidence from Neanderthals’ skulls suggests that their large brains grew in the same way as ours do. That in turn ...

Problems emerge in US direct-to-consumer stem cell clinic market

Pete Shanks | 
Leigh Turner and Paul Knoepfler recently published an important paper in Cell Stem Cell on stem cell clinics in the US. Turner is a University of ...

Consumer beware: NIH database of cost-free-trials includes numerous ‘for a fee’ tests

Emily Bazar | 
The 16-year-old [ClinicalTrials.gov] website is the most comprehensive such database publicly available in the United States, with listings for nearly 220,000 ...
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If a parent has Alzheimer’s, are her children destined to get it too?

Rebecca Sims | 
The most common question I get asked is 'Will my child get Alzheimer's disease?' ... Those of us who are ...

23andMe mobilizes its massive genome database to unravel depression clues

Antonio Regalado | 
A scientific expedition into the DNA of more than 400,000 customers of gene-testing company 23andMe has uncovered the first major ...

Short bursts of brain activity during sleep may be key for memory consolidation

Richard Kemeny | 
Sleep is essential for memory. Mounting evidence continues to support the notion that the nocturnal brain replays, stabilizes, reorganizes, and ...
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Baby making moves from bedroom to the laboratory

Natalie Schreyer | 
The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a ...

Craig Venter’s goal is to sequence 100 million genomes

Arlene Weintraub | 
[Craig] Venter’s goal is to sequence at least one million genomes, something that seems likely to take the better part of ...
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Future of regenerative medicine may be making human tissue from fruits

Jesse Gamble | 
In the high-ceilinged basement lab, the ear lies flat, encapsulated in a dish on a sheet-metal cabinet. It’s actually a ...

Genes major influence on academic achievement–and that makes leftists uncomfortable

Olivia Goldhill | 
A massive and fast growing field in science—behavioral genetics—has a huge body of conclusive evidence that, at first reading, seems at ...

Business booming for stem cell therapy clinics despite dearth of evidence of effectiveness

Gina Kolata | 
Out of nowhere, over the past two to three years, the clinics have sprung up — 570 in the United ...
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Are Olympic athletes using ‘gene doping’ to improve performance?

John Horgan | 
The World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, which advises the Olympics and other sports organizations on illicit performance-enhancement, has accused Russia of ...
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Neuroscientists revisit horrific 1966 Texas tower massacre

Eva Friederick | 
Smart, strong, talented and popular, the young Charles Whitman seemed, outwardly, like a poster child for the “all-American boy” stereotype ...

DNA analysis dubs residents of Yorkshire ‘most British’

Josh White | 
The average Briton is only really 37 per cent British - with the remainder of their genes coming from European ...

GMOs in fight against Zika more than just about eliminating mosquitos

Jeff Bessen | 
The shadow of the Zika virus hangs over the Rio Olympic Games, with visitors and even high-profile athletes citing worries ...

Patients under hypnosis exhibit distinct patterns of brain activity

Carl Zimmer | 
Psychiatrists have been using hypnosis on patients for decades — to help them reduce their pain or kick a smoking ...
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Belgian lab tapping genetics of yeast to brew better beer

Ewen Callaway | 
Kevin Verstrepen’s lab meetings can be pretty boozy affairs. Twice a week, several members of his group at Belgium’s University ...

Bacteria that resides in our nose produces MRSA killing antibiotic

Kai Kupferschmidt | 
A new antibiotic that has, quite literally, emerged from the human nose. The compound is produced by one species of ...

Is egg freezing too expensive to help women who could benefit most from procedure?

Rhiannon Cosslett | 
In the US, the marketing of egg freezing as a kind of insurance policy for millennials is already in full ...
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Tale of two sites: Science communication pitfalls covering Alzheimer’s drug

Nicholas Staropoli | 
The same drug trial has been covered in completely different ways by various news outlets. It serves as a lesson ...
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