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Night owls more likely to eat poorly, use drugs, die earlier
Night owls may be more fun at parties, but a preference for staying out late may come with some serious ...
Viewpoint: Precision medicine based on white populations could ‘reinforce existing societal and economic inequalities’
Sequencing the human genome has shown us that we are mostly all made up of the same stuff, but it’s ...
Discovery of ancient finger in Saudi Arabia suggests humans left Africa 20,000 years earlier than assumed
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil ...
Why humans and Neanderthals look so different
Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had heavy eyebrows, huge noses, and large, long faces that bulged forward. Using 3D computer ...
Could LSD treat schizophrenia and depression?
A small new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience seems to offer some insight into what’s happening in the brain while we’re on ...
75% of transgender women report ‘positive changes in their life satisfaction’ after surgery
While many transgender people opt for gender-affirming surgeries, little research has been done to examine how such operations may affect ...
Possible breakthrough in one-a-day male birth control pill?
One of the latest experimental candidates for a male birth control drug is a compound that would be taken much ...
Men, women respond differently to genes linked to depression
In men and women diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the same genes show the opposite changes. In other words, the ...
Staying ‘highly physically fit’ could stave off dementia by nearly 90%
The intricacies behind what can cause dementia are still largely a mystery and highly debated. But a new study published [March ...
Can Halo’s brain-zapping headsets improve athletic performance?
Equinox jumped at the chance to offer Halo Neuroscience’s brain-zapping, supposedly performance-enhancing headsets as part of its advanced personal training ...
23andMe adds 120 geographic regions to make genetic ancestry results more precise
If you’ve ever taken an ancestry DNA test, you probably already know that the results aren’t exactly precise. Sometimes you wind ...
Consumer genetics first: 23andMe gets OK to sell limited DNA test for cancer risk
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared 23andMe to sell directly to customers a DNA test for gene mutations ...
Big breakthrough? Man’s penis injected with stem cells at controversial clinic
Ben Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru to the sort of nerds who devote themselves to ...
Video: Watch DNA organization in real time
Your body is truly amazing. Every cell inside of it is capable of organizing massive messes of DNA into chromosomes ...
Quest to find ‘Olympic genes’ comes up short—so far
In 2014, the former Soviet nation of Uzbekistan announced a plan that it hoped would give it a leg up ...
Controversial natural supplement kratom draws FDA’s ire after Salmonella outbreak
It’s no secret that the Food Drug Administration isn’t a fan of kratom, a popular herb purported to help people with digestive ...
Cutting through the ‘dieting din’: Your DNA won’t help you lose weight
Many consumer DNA testing companies have pledged to cut through the dieting din with personalized advice. Different diets work for ...
Blood test predicts autism with 90% accuracy
New research, published Sunday [Feb. 18] in the journal Molecular Autism, might provide one of the first steps needed toward developing an accurate ...
CRISPR ‘black box’ tells us what’s happening inside human cells
To get a peek inside the cell, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a sort ...
‘Inherently imperfect’: Why ancestry tests are often misunderstood
It’s right there in the fine print of any consumer DNA test, if you bother to read it: DNA testing ...
DARPA: Biohackers should ‘think deeply’ about using themselves as research guinea pigs
[DARPA biotechnology director Justin] Sanchez was not only [at Body Hacking Con] to promote the agency’s expansive research portfolio. He ...
Replacement ears for children grown from their own cells in Chinese lab
Chinese scientists say they’ve accomplished something that’s long been a goal in the world of regenerative medicine—giving someone a new, ...
‘Genetic nurture’: Parents’ genes affect how they raise their children
A new paper [January 26] in Science suggests a fascinating new twist on this interaction between our genes and our environment. Our ...
Questioning the decision to resurrect smallpox relative in the lab
In an effort to develop a safer vaccine substitute, Canadian researchers have resurrected a close relative—the extinct horsepox virus—from scratch ...
Targeting invasive pests with genetically tailored poison in New Zealand
Recently, New Zealand has been at the center of a heated debate over whether it is either feasible or ethical to use ...
‘An awful lot of spit’: Consumer DNA test market booms as consumers ‘take control of their health’
When AncestryDNA sold some 1.5 million of its genetic testing kits over Black Friday weekend, it seemed like clear evidence that after ...
Should the FDA have a say in ‘do-it-yourself’ biohacking?
In the past few months, the possibility of do-it-yourself genetic engineering has exited the realm of the purely hypothetical. ...
CRISPR food coming soon: USDA decision speeds up regulatory process for gene-edited crops
In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an important oilseed crop that ...
