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In a step that brings stem cells closer to the clinic, researchers in Japan have found that transplanting reprogrammed stem ...

Influentials are the information brokers that have major media platforms and big receptive audiences. For example, on the GMO issue, ...

Genetics can seem complex, especially theoretical evolutionary models. But the reality is that these models are ultimately grounded in a ...

The paper, Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans, which just came out recently, has naturally been making a ...

John Bradshaw, author of Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, has ...

USC researchers have uncovered the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind tooth renewal in alligators. The scientists found that when an ...

At what point does a bundle of brain cells become a brain, and is it ethical to push those limits? ...

You’ve probably already heard about the miniature ‘human brain’ grown in laboratory. It’s not hard to see why these little blobs ...

Sports Illustrated writer David Epstein has a new book out, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. The title strikes me ...

If you follow the public debate on genetically modified foods, you know it’s become unhinged from reality. This is because ...

There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right to Know” people, who say they ...

It’s been more than a decade since scientists first raised an alarm about arsenic levels in rice—based on the realization ...

The website The Root often has a Q & A with various African Americans, famous and not so famous, about their genealogy ...

As I have previously observed, “the belief that GMO foods are deadly or potentially harmful” has come to dominate the ...

Evolutionary genetics as a field emerged in the early 20th century. There were some upsides to this. R. A. Fisher was alive, so ...

As if the meaning of “natural” wasn’t already overly twisted for ideological and commercial purposes. Check out this campaign recently launched ...

You have probably heard or read that most genetic variation is within races, not between races. This assertion has led, in my opinion, to unwarranted inferences ...

Thanks to the efforts of geneticists the story of the extinction of the Spanish Habsburgs is now well known. They are in short a ...

We really are a mutant race. Our genomes are strewn with millions of rare gene variations, the result of the ...

Influenza virus H7N9 may be the next virus most likely to cause a pandemic. Earlier this year, the previously unknown avian ...

It is generally understood that inbreeding has some negative biological consequences for complex animals. But what, specifically, are the consequences of ...

The following is an edited excerpt. One of the weirder stories over the past decade in relation to the Y ...

The following is an edited excerpt. I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It’s so ...

The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...

The Health Ministry of the Faroe Islands plans to sequence the genomes of every interested citizen ...

The following is an excerpt. There has been recent talk about GMOs and political orientation recently. Keith Kloor has pointers to the ...

The following is an edited excerpt. A few year ago there was a minor controversy when some evolutionary genomicists reported ...

The following is an excerpt. Given the chicken’s agricultural importance, scientists long knew that, like 97% of bird species, roosters ...