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When it comes to COVID, nurture trumps nature – so far

Ricki Lewis | 
In the early weeks of the pandemic, as patients overwhelmed New York City hospitals, the clinical characteristics of the most ...
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Podcast: Beyond CRISPR and gene therapy—How ‘gene writing’ is poised to transform the treatment of even the rarest diseases

Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Kevin Folta | 
In just a few short years, gene editing has launched a biomedical revolution, yielding previously unimaginable treatments for conditions ranging ...
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Debating the prickly notion of identity: It’s different depending on your ideology

Razib Khan | 
In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations of ...
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What did a teenage girl look like 9,000 years ago? Here is her face, reconstructed from bone fragments found in a cave in Greece

Megan Gannon | 
Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson reconstructed the face of an 18-year-old young woman, dubbed Avgi, whose 9,000-year-old bones were found in ...
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‘Like a fire alarm and a sprinkler system all in one’: Immune proteins keep some COVID patients from getting seriously ill

Liz Szabo | 
Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about COVID-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency ...
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We needed an official scientific name for the ‘warm and fuzzies’: It’s kama muta

Alan Fiske | 
The phenomenon is characterized by feelings of intense love ...
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Viewpoint: Social science dogma claims gender roles shape human sex differences but most theories as to why fall short

David Geary | 
Scholarly debate over the magnitude and origin of human sex differences is seemingly interminable. As one might imagine, the arguments ...
Bog bodies of Europe: 2500-year-old, naturally preserved humans provide astonishing insight into ancient cultures

Bog bodies of Europe: 2500-year-old, naturally preserved humans provide astonishing insight into ancient cultures

Nathaniel Scharping | 
The peat bogs of Ireland, Denmark, the U.K. and other European countries have yielded human remains for well over a ...
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Viewpoint: This is no time to cut corners on regulation of COVID-19 vaccines

Henry Miller, John Cohrssen | 
With COVID-19 cases, the percentage of positive test results, and hospitalizations reaching record levels in much of the nation, the ...
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Despite poor healthcare, Africa leads the world in controlling COVID-19. Here are some reasons why

Emmanuel Gokpolu | 
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a huge toll on healthcare systems worldwide, but many African countries have done a commendable ...
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How mental health patients suffer from the overuse of psychotropic drugs

Joel Braslow, Katherine Ellison | 
The standard of care for the severely mentally ill in the United States has drastically changed since the 1950s, when ...
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Podcast: Polymerase chain reaction—The ‘transformative’ tool that sparked a genetics revolution

Kat Arney | 
In this episode we’re taking a look at the story and the characters behind one of the most transformative - ...
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Evolution’s ‘great leap forward’: When did humans cross the intelligence rubicon?

Nick Longrich | 
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question ...
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African biotechnology advance: Vaccine breakthrough could prevent ‘catastrophic’ tick-borne diseases that cost farmers $19B annually

Lominda Afedraru | 
Livestock breeding is expected to be one of the engines of economic growth in Africa as it struggles to recover ...
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The COVID conspiracy theory that won’t go away: No, the novel coronavirus was not made in a lab — it came from bats

Polly Hayes | 
One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that ...
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Childhood trauma: The kids are not alright, and part of the explanation may be linked to epigenetics

Kristen Hovet | 
The old adage about kids being resilient and able to bounce back from early traumas isn't necessarily borne out by ...
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Podcast: Can we harness the power of germline editing without inviting disaster?

Christopher Gyngell, Kevin Folta | 
Gene editing has moved rapidly from the lab to real-world applications in medicine, yielding novel treatments for diseases like sickle ...
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‘Organic electronics’ poised to create edgy new products, from bendable solar panels to transparent books to human-looking robots

Richard Gray | 
Electronics made from carbon rather than silicon could lead to a new generation of medical devices, sensors and perhaps even ...
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How immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer care

Claire Adams | 
More than a century ago, in 1910, President William Howard Taft made what then seemed a bold but reasonable prediction: ...
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Viewpoint: The questionable science behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain hacking project

Andrew Jackson | 
If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network of brain ...
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Viewpoint: The chilling impact of the virulent spread of anti-science thinking

Tommaso Dorigo | 
"Anti-scientific thinking" is a bad disease of our time, and one which may affect a wide range of human beings, ...
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Podcast: The Human Genome Project is 30 years old. What have we learned since its inception?

Eric Green, Kat Arney | 
In this episode we bring you an in-depth interview with Dr Eric Green, director of the US National Human Genome ...
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Viewpoint: Uganda battles anti-GMO, anti-vaccine coalition agitating against COVID-19 immunization

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya | 
A handful of activist groups are now working in tandem to undermine Uganda’s plans to inoculate its population against the ...
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Why evolution always goes in one direction

Matthew Wills | 
The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species – from algae to ...
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Viewpoint: Great Barrington Declaration arguing for herd immunity ‘takes page from denialist propaganda playbook’

David Gorski | 
When you’ve been examining pseudoscientific and quack claims for over two decades, you start to recognize patterns in the strategies ...
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Final weeks to approval: NIH’s Anthony Fauci and FDA’s Peter Marks on what’s ahead before we can expect a safe COVID vaccine

Ricki Lewis | 
As tens of thousands of people participate in phase 3 clinical trials on COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the focus is turning ...
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Cut carbs? Eat less, move more? Why the spat between low carbers and calorie counters is pointless

Angela Dowden | 
Part of my introduction to nutrition was reading books my mom picked up second-hand at rummage sales back in England ...
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