Newsletter GLP Human

In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of ...

The Philippines has finally approved Golden Rice, and Greenpeace is doing everything in its power to reverse the decision. A ...

About a decade ago, when he was a first-year dermatology resident, Adewole Adamson learned that “exploding” rates of melanoma were ...

I looked forward to Hulu’s original horror film False Positive, pitched as a modern-day Rosemary’s Baby. It premiered at the Tribeca ...

The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist ...

Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t ...

For all the ills it brought, the COVID-19 pandemic may have helped revolutionize genetic sequencing. Human gene editing is fraught ...

When I was a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the orangutan habitat. I was fascinated ...

The world’s attention is presently focused on the mRNA vaccines, which may turn out to be the most revolutionary vaccines ...

COVID-19 has already broken all the rules. Since when does a virus make people lose their sense of taste and ...

Heat waves are the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, not the more photogenic windstorms and floods. Hotter ...

Russia wants to produce allergen-free milk using animal gene editing. How much progress have they made? If you're bored with ...

When we are young, our skills tend to improve with age and experience. But once we are well into adulthood, ...

Convincing a parent that vaccines won't harm their children can be a near-possible task these days. As pediatric infectious disease ...

If a pesticide is banned in Europe, does that make it dangerous? Nope. Typically an excellent source of science commentary, ...

The avalanche of TV ads for Prevagen that coincided with my reaching Medicare age has inspired me to investigate what’s ...

In September 2020, I arrived in Taiwan on a flight from New York. I had read much about the border ...

As I’ve written recently, a spate of devices enabling people with quadriplegia to move their extremities have been approved by ...

Soil microbes are hard to see and understand, yet we know that they have a significant impact on plant health, ...

Even before the pandemic, there was plenty for expectant mothers to worry about. Pregnant women must withstand a barrage of ...

I’m tired of writing about COVID from a geneticist’s point of view, so I thought I’d let a virus speak ...

Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely ...

COVID-19 has put race-based health disparities on full display, but such inequities extend far deeper than the current pandemic. An ...

Cell-based breast milk might offer mothers and babies a better alternative to expensive formula in the coming years. Alternative health ...

An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in ...

Now that COVID-19 is winding down, perhaps it’s time to go back to trying to do something about our country’s ...

Mexico seems determined to ban the weedkiller glyphosate and biotech crops, drawing intense opposition from the country's farmers. Twitter bots ...