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Suspended animation used in ‘groundbreaking’ trial to buy time for critically injured patients
Doctors have put humans into a state of suspended animation for the first time in a groundbreaking trial that aims ...
Coping with death: Our brains are wired to think it only happens to other people
Warning: this story is about death. You might want to click away now. That’s because, researchers say, our brains do ...
Brains and birth control pills: Oral contraceptives may affect learning, memory and the immune system
Sarah E Hill, a professor of social psychology at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas argues we need ...
Eugenics offers a warning about the perils of scientists chasing a brighter future at the ‘cost of innocent individual lives’
We tend to associate eugenics with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, but it was in fact developed in London. Its ...
Brain implants may one day boost our abilities to text, drive, communicate and think
An injection of Silicon Valley chutzpah has energised the field of brain-computer or brain-machine interfaces in recent years. Buoyed by ...
Anti-aging pill ‘5 to 12 years away’
[I]magine if, instead of a pill you could take to live for ever, there was a pill that could push ...
New analysis of Dead Sea scrolls reveals minerals not typically from region
The Dead Sea scrolls have given up fresh secrets, with researchers saying they have identified a previously unknown technique used ...
Believe it or not, Neanderthals were both athletic and artsy
They were sprinters. Previously believed to have been endurance runners, it is now thought Neanderthals favoured “more power sprint than ...
Are we moving closer to mind reading? Facebook-funded study turns brain signals into text
With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person’s speech directly from their brain. The ...
Using CRISPR to cure the sting of the venomous box jellyfish with a ‘simple’ spray
In May, the Sydney-based scientist [Greg Neely] and his team of 22 announced they had potentially cured the sting of ...
Inaccuracies in consumer genetic tests for BRCA mutations prompt call for crackdown from UK doctors
Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly ...
Why unproven alternative cancer treatments are so dangerous
Cancer is oppressive and all-pervasive: half of us alive today will experience a direct brush with it. But despite its ...
Brain changes can be spotted ‘years before’ Parkinson’s disease emerges
Changes in the brain that can be spotted years before physical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease occur might act as an ...
‘Evolution in action’: How ancient humans developed a mutation to protect against diabetes
An ancient mutation that spread through humans after the advent of cooking may protect people against high blood sugar and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Race realists’ distort science to promote controversial political views
Far-right and anti-immigrant groups have once more become visible and powerful across Europe and the US. … I have spent ...
In bid for US support, French candidate to head UN agricultural agency says she’s not necessarily opposed to GMO or gene-edited crops
Europe’s candidate to run the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which guides policymakers around the world, has promised the ...
Scientific challenges to CRISPR crops ‘largely settled,’ though political, social concerns remain
Soon, soybeans will be bred to yield oil without dangerous trans fats. Lettuce will be grown to handle warmer, drier ...
Viewpoint: ‘Toxic’ chemicals fueled post-WWII economic boom in the United States—here’s why that’s a problem
[B]efore [World War II], the vast majority of Americans lived in cities, or they lived on farms. Suddenly, with all ...
Redesigning life: First living organism created with ‘fully synthetic’ genome
Scientists have created the world’s first living organism that has a fully synthetic and radically altered DNA code. The lab-made ...
Are men angrier than women? Or do they just show it more?
Science is beginning to provide new explanations about the ways that personality, age, gender and life experiences shape the way ...
Dark days: Examining Europe’s history of eugenics, including forced sterilizations in Sweden
In Sweden the self-examination has already begun. A government minister has admitted that “what went on is barbaric and a ...
Medieval crusader armies had remarkable genetic diversity
Crusader armies were made up of people from remarkably genetically diverse backgrounds, hailing not just from western Europe but also much further ...
Alternative protein market gets competitive as startup Beyond Meat preps for IPO
Wall Street is going vegan. At some point in the next four weeks, Beyond Meat, a pioneering plant-based meat alternative ...
People may have lived in Australia for 120,000 years—twice as long as we thought
Extensive archaeological research in southern Victoria has again raised the prospect that people have lived in Australia for 120,000 years ...
3-parent baby sparks backlash after doctors use experimental procedure as a fertility treatment
A baby with DNA from three people has been born in Greece following a controversial fertility treatment. The baby boy, weighing 2.9kg ...
CRISPR-edited ‘super plants’ might be our best chance to slow climate change
If this were a film about humanity’s last hope before climate change wiped us out, Hollywood would be accused of ...
Can genetic tests predict our cancer risk?
The [UK] health secretary, Matt Hancock, [recently] shared his shock at discovering that he is at greater than average risk for ...
Video: CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna explains Cas-9 gene editing
Prof Jennifer Doudna, one the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our ...
