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Antibiotic resistance genes identified in growing list of countries
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Cheating prairie voles provide genetic clues to human adultery
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Scientists, ethicists debate search for genes for intelligence
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International regulations urged for antibiotic use in livestock
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Prehistoric skull suggests our prehistoric cousins were ‘monsters’
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Adorable reptile helps answer question: How did penises evolve?
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Concern rising over rainforest disease ‘neglected’ by drug companies
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Regulatory oversight may have allowed deadly pig virus into US in 2013
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Homicide or humanity: What makes humans human?
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Babies leave stem cell imprint in mom’s body long after birth
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Rare disease causing uncontrollable bone growth may soon have cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is ...
New MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia causing concern ahead of Hajj pilgrimage
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What did man’s best friend look like before wolves appeared?
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CDC requests funding from Congress to fight antibiotic resistance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that illnesses and deaths from antibiotic resistance will rise in the U.S. unless ...
GMO chicken could solve avian flu crisis, saving millions of birds, if only if….
The solution to avian flu, the virus responsible for the devastating eradication of chicken and turkey flocks across much of ...
Gut dwelling hospital infection linked to supermarket meats
One of the most common and troubling infections that occur in healthcare may come from an unexpected source, according to ...
Is there intelligent life in space? Stephen Hawking thinks so, and has launched massive search
More than a half-century after the first modern search for communicating extraterrestrial life, humanity’s quest to find intelligent beings in ...
Dogs love TV? Our canine partners have evolved human-like traits
It's likely no surprise to dog owners, but growing research suggests that man's best friend often acts more human than ...
What defines a healthy microbiome depends on context
We all know people who act very differently depending on the company they find themselves in. They can be delightful ...
‘The End of Plenty’ author Joel Bourne, Jr: No GMO ‘damages’ but ‘no great benefits’
By 2040, the world’s population is predicted to rise to nine billion. More than 800 million people are malnourished. Another ...
Measles virus’s high transmissibility further stresses importance of vaccination
In its bulletin the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC said that a toddler traveling from India gave a Minneapolis man measles when the ...
Are we nearing the end of antibiotics?
The antibiotic era isn’t actually very old. It begins, depending on how picky you are, with Alexander Fleming’s accidental recognition of ...
Could the world’s species experience another mass extinction? Maybe.
According to a study published in Science Advances, the current extinction rate could be more than 100 times higher than normal—and that’s ...
MERS arrival in yet another country raises concerns about global preparedness
A respiratory virus that originates in the Middle East and has been hopscotching the globe for three years has landed in ...
DDT found to dramatically raise breast cancer risk in women exposed while in womb
Women exposed in the womb to high levels of the pesticide DDT have a nearly fourfold increased risk of developing breast cancer, ...
US to end almost all research using chimpanzees
Chimpanzee research in the United States may be nearly over. On June 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ...
Finding Ebola’s hiding place key to stopping another major outbreak
No one foresaw, back in December 2013, that the little boy who fell ill in a village called Méliandou, in ...
Scientists inject electronic device into brains, create cyborgs
No need to wait for the cyborg future—it’s already here. Adding to a growing list of electronics that can be ...
