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Evolution of Everything book review: Does Darwinian evolution apply to all of human culture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Matt Ridley has made ...
Despite media hype, no evidence trauma is inherited in genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the Guardian published ...
Guardian: Benefits of embryonic genome editing worth the risks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 10,000 diseases ...
UK researchers call for national debate on ethics of genetically modifying embryos
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Leading UK research funders ...
Was there really an ‘autism epidemic’ in Silicon Valley?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Fifteen years ago, Steve ...
Which comes first for genetics: Science, or culture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The last few decades ...
Hawaii activists marshall anecdotes to claim GMOs, pesticides linked to birth defects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Local doctors find themselves ...
Epigenetic inheritance: Holocaust survivors passed genetic marks of trauma to children
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic changes stemming from ...
European public scientists urge Scotland to reverse ‘political’ GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A powerful group of ...
Greenpeace provokes India’s ire: Crumbling credibility and waning power of global activist power
Editor's Note: Greenpeace has led an aggressive campaign against GMOs in India, demanding that they be banned. It's mounted high ...
Health not all about genetics: More focus on lifestyle needed
Much of the current research on treating disease and staying healthy has focused on our genetic makeup – from the ...
Are plants sentient beings with rights? What would this mean for conservation and agriculture?
Plants are intelligent. Plants deserve rights. To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, ...
Video: Monsanto spars with Australia’s Undercurrent over glyphosate, ‘world food domination’
The Guardian hosted a scathing video on Monsanto's business practices and history by Undercurrent, an online news show. It then ...
Backlash against Simon Copland’s Guardian claim being gay and sexuality are ‘fluid’: ‘We’re born this way’
In a recent Guardian article, Simon Copland argued that it is very unlikely people are born gay (or presumably any other ...
Academic performance across subjects may be influenced by same set of genes
You may feel you are just not a maths person, or that you have a special gift for languages, but ...
UK lifts EU ban on neonics to allow farmers to fight pests
Farmers will be able to use blacklisted pesticides linked to serious harm in bees after the UK government temporarily lifted ...
Can anything be done to stop the growing threat of antibiotic resistance?
Matt Cooper, a medical chemist at the University of Queensland, Australia, puffs out his cheeks and scratches his head. He’s ...
Pseudoscience appropriates ‘epigenetics’ with promise of life-changing cures
Lots of real scientific terms – such as “neuro” or “nano” – get borrowed for a spot of buzzword scienceyness. Epigenetics is ...
Kissing around the world: How do different cultures show intimacy?
Not all people express love and adoration through their lips. In fact, new research published in American Anthropologist reports that only 46 percent of cultures kiss ...
Mark Bittman’s ‘urban farming’ can’t address hunger of poor but GMO but industrial agriculture can
Should the poor look to weeds from cracks in the sidewalk as a source of nutritious, organic free food? New ...
Children of genetically diverse parents are taller and have higher IQs on average
The children of parents who are more distantly related tend to be taller and smarter than their peers, according to ...
Human ‘organs-on-chips’ could accelerate personalized medicine, eliminate animal testing
Tiny tubes emerge from a small transparent block, pumping imperceptible amounts of fluid and air to and fro. It looks ...
Should men consider sperm-freezing to prevent age-related genetic mutations?
Younger men should consider freezing their sperm to avoid their children having genetic disorders if they choose to have them ...
Swine fever-resistant pigs produced through new gene-editing technique
On an isolated farm outside Edinburgh, pigs grunt eagerly as their food arrives. The barn has a typical farmyard whiff, ...
‘Sexist’ Nobel laureate Tim Hunt’s success relied on work of women scientists
Professor Tim Hunt shocked the scientific community, and pretty much everyone else, with his outrageous comments about his “trouble with ...
Diets personalized to people’s biology could help curb disease
Scientists have created bespoke diets using a computer algorithm that learns how individual bodies respond to different foods. Researchers believe ...
Monsanto suggests new UK headquarters, new name to lure Syngenta to accept merger deal
Monsanto, the U.S. seed and agrochemicals group known for its genetically modified crops, wants to switch its headquarters from the ...
Creativity and mental illness share genetic markers
The notion of the tortured artist is a stubborn meme. Creativity, it states, is fuelled by the demons that artists ...
