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‘Designer babies’ are coming soon, but who gets to have them?

Alex Salkever, Vivek Wadhwa | 
Designer babies are coming in 20 to 30 years. Your children will be able to select, to some degree, their ...
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Keeping aging at bay by killing ‘zombie cells’

Megan Scudellari | 
[Jan] van Deursen and his colleagues at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, [had] an idea: could killing off these 'zombie' ...
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Ancient incompatibility: Why human females and Neanderthal males had difficulty conceiving

Ann Gibbons | 
After years of sequencing the genomes of female Neandertals, researchers have finally got their first good look at the Y ...
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How our brain perceives time

David Warmflash | 
Internal time perception is complex, involving disperse areas of the brain. But a new field of research called neurorelativity, using ...
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Biohackers help ‘patient’ inject himself with experimental HIV treatment—live on Facebook

Kristen Brown | 
[Tristan] Roberts is about to inject himself with an experimental gene therapy for HIV, a DIY prototype treatment designed by ...
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How epigenetics is linked to drug resistance

Scientists at Vanderbilt University say they have discovered a nongenetic cause of resistance to cetuximab, a therapeutic that is used ...
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Protecting against cancer: What can we learn from animals who live for centuries

David Warmflash | 
There are an increasing number of genetic clues from animals that could provide hints to treating aging and age related ...
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Google’s self-learning AI starts with blank slate and ‘creates knowledge itself’

Ian Sample | 
Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo – an AI so powerful that ...
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Cutting calories likely lengthens lifespans—but why?

Bailey Kirkpatrick | 
Nearly a century ago, researchers discovered that cutting calorie intake was actually able to extend lifespan in various animal species ...
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Viewpoint: Is having children immoral?

David Benatar | 
[Editor's note: David Benatar is a professor of philosophy and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Cape Town, ...
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Innovative CAR-T cancer treatments offer cures–and sometimes high risks

Kevin Pels | 
[T]here’s a reason CAR-T is reserved for [cancer] patients that fail to improve under front-line treatments: it comes with horrid side ...
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Are we on the brink of another smallpox outbreak?

Gregory Koblentz | 
[Editor's note: Gregory Koblentz is a professor and director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at the Schar School of Policy and ...
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Android intimacy: Drawing the line between science and human

Alex Mar | 
Today, the technical ability to produce a robot that truly looks and moves and speaks like a human remains well ...
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First alien life forms we encounter could well be robots

Bob Waugh | 
[T]he first aliens we encounter are likely to be machines, and they’ll be almost unimaginably old. Susan Schneider of the ...
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Genetically modified skin grafts could monitor glucose, end needle sticks for diabetes

Daisy Yuhas | 
Painful and inconvenient, needle sticks are part of daily life for many people with diabetes. Wouldn’t it be great if ...
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Why we shouldn’t be afraid of human gene editing

Dave Gammon | 
[Editor's note: Dave Gammon is an associate professor of biology at Elon University.] Many feel a visceral dread that scientists ...
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Viewpoint: Overly strict human gene-editing regulations let patients suffer and die

Henry Miller | 
[Editor’s note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
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We’re a long way from Blade Runner-like organic androids

Fumiya Iida | 
[Editor's note: Fumiya Iida is a lecturer in mechatronics at the University of Cambridge.] The new Blade Runner sequel will return ...
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Is sexual orientation ‘gaydar’ detection machine sound or ethical?

Heather Murphy | 
[Michal Kosinski] decided to show that it was possible to use facial recognition analysis to detect something intimate, something “people ...
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Human extinction could come within 5,100 years

Christopher Ingraham | 
Every day, it seems, brings with it fresh new horrors. Mass murder. Catastrophic climate change. Nuclear annihilation. It's all enough to make a ...
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Is life-extending modern medicine ‘unnatural?’

Elena Milova, Steve Hill | 
The word ‘unnatural’ conjures up feelings of doom and dread, and it is unfortunately often used by critics of science ...
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Why won’t pharmaceutical companies invest in male birth control?

Kristen Brown | 
Male birth control is the great promise that never was. We’ve been just a few years away from a male ...
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Biohacker: How to genetically modify yourself

Adele Peters | 
“What we’ve got here is some DNA, and this is a syringe,” Josiah Zayner tells a room full of synthetic ...
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Mass tragedies underscore desperate need for synthetic blood

Ankita Rao | 
Scientists have been working on creating synthetic blood for years now. The hope is that this substance will have a ...
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Different types of meditations affect your brain in unique ways

Caroline Williams | 
We are used to hearing that meditation is good for the brain, but now it seems that not just any kind ...
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Viewpoint: What are the odds on the future of humanity?

Caleb Scharf | 
The more we learn about the history of our own world, and the wider solar system, the more we see ...
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Who gave humans genital herpes? Maybe this ancient ancestor

Dana Dovey | 
Genital herpes infects about one in six American adults. But who was patient zero, the individual responsible for this irritating scourge? Researchers in ...
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