Did you follow COVID lockdown rules? Whether or not you did is partially driven by your DNA

Did you follow COVID lockdown rules? Whether or not you did is partially driven by your DNA

All over the world, people suffered the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on their wellbeing. However, the impact was not ...
Some endangered species can no longer survive in the wild. So should we alter their genes to protect them?

Some endangered species can no longer survive in the wild. So should we alter their genes to protect them?

TIffany Kosch | Conversation | 
Around the world, populations of many beloved species are declining at increasing rates. According to one grim projection, as many as ...
Can cell-cultured breast milk provide parents with another option?

Can cell-cultured breast milk provide parents with another option?

Bianca Le, Ruth Purcell | Conversation | 
Science has made impressive gains in the art of producing animal products minus the animal. Now this emerging field of ...
EU’s Farm to Fork Green Deal could hurt South African agriculture unless production adjustments are made

EU’s Farm to Fork Green Deal could hurt South African agriculture unless production adjustments are made

Tinashe Kapuya, Wandile Sihlobo | Conversation | 
The European Union – among a host of other countries – is seeking to implement urgent policy measures to combat ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR gene edited crops 'mimic nature' — but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be regulated

Viewpoint: CRISPR gene edited crops ‘mimic nature’ — but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be regulated

Legislators around the world are being asked to reconsider how to regulate the latest developments in gene technology, genome editing ...
CRISPR, fluorescent proteins, optogenetics: Three life-enhancing technologies inspired by nature

CRISPR, fluorescent proteins, optogenetics: Three life-enhancing technologies inspired by nature

Marc Zimmer | Conversation | 
Watson and Crick, Schrödinger and Einstein all made theoretical breakthroughs that have changed the world’s understanding of science. Today big, game-changing ideas are less ...
Going back to your office for work may increase your productivity — and your weight. Here’s why

Going back to your office for work may increase your productivity — and your weight. Here’s why

Kenneth McLeod | Conversation | 
With millions of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, many who have worked from home over the past year will be heading ...
Who bungled their nation’s COVID response the most? 5 world leaders in the running, and why

Who bungled their nation’s COVID response the most? 5 world leaders in the running, and why

COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic ...
Humanized pigs: How scientists bioengineered swine with human immune systems to accelerate research on viruses, vaccines, cancer and stem cell therapeutics

Humanized pigs: How scientists bioengineered swine with human immune systems to accelerate research on viruses, vaccines, cancer and stem cell therapeutics

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires all new medicines to be tested in animals before use in people. Pigs make ...
Fact checking ancient Greek history: Teeth recovered from military gravesites contradict historical beliefs that no mercenaries were deployed in battles

Fact checking ancient Greek history: Teeth recovered from military gravesites contradict historical beliefs that no mercenaries were deployed in battles

Katherine Reinberger | Conversation | 
Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s ...
If you get a vaccine and you experience side effects, is that a sign it’s working?

If you get a vaccine and you experience side effects, is that a sign it’s working?

Robert Finberg | Conversation | 
If someone gets a headache or feels a bit under the weather after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, it’s become common ...
COVID-19 variants pose new threats but our antibodies are evolving to fight them

COVID-19 variants pose new threats but our antibodies are evolving to fight them

Meng Wang, Sarah Caddy | Conversation | 
The emergence of “variants of concern” has raised questions about our long-term immunity to the coronavirus. Will the antibodies we make ...
Viewpoint: ‘Deep structural flaws’ plague Nigeria’s food system: ‘Gene-editing and the use of genetically modified organisms need to be mobilized’

Viewpoint: ‘Deep structural flaws’ plague Nigeria’s food system: ‘Gene-editing and the use of genetically modified organisms need to be mobilized’

Ademola Adenle | Conversation | 
During the lockdown in Lagos, Nigeria, I joined a humanitarian team to distribute food to poor people in the urban ...
Genetics and a second Green Revolution: Gene editing essential to address increasing crop losses as warming temperatures cause a surge in insect populations

Genetics and a second Green Revolution: Gene editing essential to address increasing crop losses as warming temperatures cause a surge in insect populations

Gregg Howe, Nathan Havko | Conversation | 
For millennia, insects and the plants they feed on have been engaged in a co-evolutionary battle: to eat or not ...
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Epidemics helped shape the Americas. Blame Columbus and Europeans

Matthew Ward | Conversation | 
The coronavirus pandemic has been compared with many previous contagions, including the great plague and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. However, there ...
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5 ways the CDC is wrong in equivocating on airborne spread of COVID particles

Stacy Morford | Conversation | 
Scientists have been warning for months that the coronavirus could be spread by aerosols – tiny respiratory droplets that people emit ...
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Here’s how dogs really see the world

Nancy Dreschel | Conversation | 
Dogs definitely see the world differently than people do, but it’s a myth that their view is just black, white ...
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Why facts don’t work against vaccine deniers and other science skeptics

Adrian Bardon | Conversation | 
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ...
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How to keep virtual reality from taking over real life

Alexandros Skandalis | Conversation | 
American R&B star John Legend is doing a major live show on Thursday June 25 to promote his new album, ...
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Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections can still cause lung damage

John Kinnear | Conversation | 
Modern medicine rightly emphasises the importance of science. The focus, however, too often displaces our attention from the real point ...
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How supercomputing is taking on the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeremy Smith | Conversation | 
In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, the haughty supercomputer Deep Thought is asked whether he can ...
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Dead or alive? The cosmology of viruses

Hugh Harris | Conversation | 
Viruses are an inescapable part of life, especially in a global viral pandemic. Yet ask a roomful of scientists if ...
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Feeling a bit stir crazy during the pandemic lockdown? Blame it on human evolution

Humans are intensely social creatures. We all need company and social contact. But for many of us, being at home ...
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From bioterror to bioerror: Who’s afraid of biohacking?

Andrew Lapworth | Conversation | 
In March, amateur scientists in Sydney announced they had created a COVID-19 test kit that is simpler, faster, and cheaper ...
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Coronavirus romance: Is it healthy for isolating couples to have so much together time?

Hannah Schacter | Conversation | 
In the wake of COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders, young couples may find themselves spending more time with each ...
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How old is that child? ‘Epigenetic clocks’ could help fight child labor, trafficking and improve age records on immigrant children

Epigenetic clocks are a new type of biological test currently capturing the attention of the scientific community, private companies and ...
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‘Bee-washing’ by advocacy groups and product pushers: We should shift the focus to native bees not honeybees

Lila Westreich | Conversation | 
Amid the worry over the loss of honey bees, a far quieter but just as devastating loss is occurring among ...
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Plants engineered to ‘recycle’ toxins could boost crop yields nearly 50 percent

Paul South | Conversation | 
Can you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France going hungry? ...
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