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CRISPR gene doping: The next ‘big issue’ in world athletics

Sam Moxon&nbsp|&nbsp
In 2020, the Polish developer CD Projekt Red launched Cyberpunk 2077, a video game that pulled players in to a ...
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Top 10 anti-biotech propagandizers: Who are the science deniers and snake oil peddlers undermining science in agriculture and medicine?

Genetic Literacy Project&nbsp|&nbsp
Anti-science beliefs are proliferating, particularly on the biotechnology and genetics front, covering a range of issues from vaccine denialism to ...
Not out of the woods on COVID threats: Animal reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 pose unknown risks to humans

Not out of the woods on COVID threats: Animal reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 pose unknown risks to humans

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon&nbsp|&nbsp
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most devastating events in public health in the U.S. over the last ...
Viewpoint: Why health care based on our race is so problematic

Viewpoint: Why health care based on race is so problematic

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
Choosing a medical treatment based on patient traits historically used to define races is fundamentally flawed, because race in the ...
Ancient human DNA ethics: ‘Who gives consent for study participants long gone — and who should speak for them today?’

Ancient human DNA ethics: ‘Who gives consent for study participants long gone — and who should speak for them today?’

Alyssa Bader, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega&nbsp|&nbsp
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to paleogenomics, the sequencing of DNA of ancient ...
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Stretching human life span to 200 years? Implications of bowhead whale study

David Warmflash&nbsp|&nbsp
A major player in the anti-genetic engineering nutritional industry is behind longevity studies on whales, that might lead to the ...
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Viewpoint: No, your water bottle does not pose a danger to your health — Here’s how HuffPost misrepresents the science on safe plasticizers

Kevin Ott&nbsp|&nbsp
We’ve often heard that economics is the “dismal science.” That phrase also seems like an apt description of claims used ...
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Humans are ill equipped to handle freezing cold — so why do so many of us live in chilly climates?

Kyoko Yamaguchi, Laura Buck&nbsp|&nbsp
Humans are a tropical species. We have lived in warm climates for most of our evolutionary history, which might explain ...
Genomic scars: How centuries of surviving antisemitism has shaped Jewish genetics

Genomic scars: How centuries of surviving antisemitism has shaped Jewish genetics

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
Between election news and the ever-earlier encroachment of Christmas, an important November anniversary of a horrific event goes mostly unnoticed: ...
Rethinking humanity’s origin story: Did all modern humans evolve from East Africa?

Rethinking humanity’s origin story: Did all modern humans evolve from East Africa?

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias&nbsp|&nbsp
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human ...
De-extinction: The Second Coming

De-extinction: The Second Coming

Patrick Whittle&nbsp|&nbsp
Ten years ago it burst into mainstream popular life: the possibility of resurrecting extinct species ...
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GLP podcast and video: Low-carb diets cause heart disease? Economic de-growth or ‘green’ growth?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta&nbsp|&nbsp
Many people have turned to low-carb diets as a way to shed unwanted body fat, but a new study suggests ...
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How cousin marriages can wreak genetic havoc on children

Mariam Sajid&nbsp|&nbsp
The link between cousin marriages and genetic disorders in offspring is a growing problem in several countries ...
5 traits in modern humans that trace back to our distant ancestry

5 traits in modern humans that trace back to our distant ancestry

Alice Clement&nbsp|&nbsp
Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we ...
How might we adapt to fast-changing global temperatures? 2-million year old ‘environmental DNA’ offers clues

How might we adapt to fast-changing global temperatures? 2-million year old ‘environmental DNA’ offers clues

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
The reconstruction of a once-living landscape in northern Greenland from 2 million years ago, deduced from bits of DNA bound ...
ChatGPTgets a lot wrong or garbled. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful. Here’s how

Viewpoint: ChatGPT gets a lot wrong or garbled. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful.

Jonathan May&nbsp|&nbsp
It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake ...
Viewpoint: 'Health impact of chemicals doubled in last 5 years'? Media misreporting flawed studies misleads the public

Viewpoint: ‘Health impact of chemicals doubled in last 5 years’? Media misreporting flawed studies misleads the public

Geoffrey Kabat&nbsp|&nbsp
“Plastics and pesticides: Health impacts of synthetic chemicals in US products doubled in last 5 years, study finds," a July ...
Reassessing the East Palestine chemical scare:  How dangerous is vinyl chloride?

Reassessing the East Palestine chemical scare: How dangerous is vinyl chloride?

Josh Bloom&nbsp|&nbsp
News coverage of the East Palestine train derailment has ranged from hysteria to hysteria. One would think that one of ...
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GLP Podcast & Video: FDA checks chocolate-heart health claims; Cure for binge drinking? Gene-edited wheat may cut cancer risk

Cameron English, Kevin Folta&nbsp|&nbsp
Does dark chocolate reduce your heart disease risk? The FDA says candy companies need to tread lightly when it comes ...
Best way for obese people to lose weight? Lifestyle change advocates debate gloomy prognosis linked to the role of genes 

Best way for obese people to lose weight? Lifestyle change advocates debate gloomy prognosis linked to the role of genes 

Sam Moxon&nbsp|&nbsp
It's been a challenging few months for people with severe overweight issues mulling how best to shed what could be ...
Analysis: US public health officials scramble to restore trust in science and vaccines after two years of COVID controversies

Analysis: US public health officials scramble to restore trust in science and vaccines after two years of COVID controversies

Lauren Sausser&nbsp|&nbsp
By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers ...
Sudan connection: Are Ethiopian Jews descendants of the ancient Israelites?

Sudan connection: Are Ethiopian Jews descendants of the ancient Israelites?

Ibrahim Omer&nbsp|&nbsp
A broad suite of genetic and historical evidence points to an ancient Jewish heritage for Ethiopian Jews, contradicting established theory ...
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Genomic surveillance: How studying malaria parasite genes helps develop more effective treatments

Alison Cranage&nbsp|&nbsp
In a classic evolutionary ‘arms race’ between pathogens and their human hosts, both sides develop arsenals of weapons. Our immune ...
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GLP Podcast & Video: Synthetic biology makes $10,000 perfume way cheaper; ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ at the WEF; Sleeping pills cause dementia?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta&nbsp|&nbsp
A bottle of perfume used to cost more than $10,000. The price has dropped precipitously thanks to advancements in synthetic ...
The evolution of COVID

Can we know for sure COVID’s origins? Why is Omicron so persistent? Knowing how evolution works provides guidance

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
The latest phrase borrowed from biology in COVID conversations is convergent evolution. It refers to pairs of unrelated species that ...
How cats got their stripes: The mystery of color patterns in mammals

How cats got their stripes: The mystery of color patterns in mammals

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
In 1902’s Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling famously explained how the leopard got his spots in what would today be deemed an ...
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Podcast and video: Fighting cystic fibrosis with viruses; Soaring seed prices; Europe’s byzantine plant-breeding rules persist

Kevin Folta, Michelle Horning&nbsp|&nbsp
Cystic fibrosis is a fatal condition that claims patients at an early age, so why does it persist? Soaring seed ...
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