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Sofia Vergara’s ex fighting custody battle for frozen embryos
In August 2014, I filed a complaint in Santa Monica, Calif., using pseudonyms, to protect two frozen embryos I created ...
Mark Lynas on his “conversion” and his dedication to helping poor farmers
Mohammed Rahman doesn’t know it yet, but his small farm in central Bangladesh is globally significant. Mr. Rahman’s pest-resistant eggplant ...
Chipotle says it serves no food with GMO ingredients in 1,800 outlets
“This is another step toward the visions we have of changing the way people think about and eat fast food,” ...
So-called endogenous retroviruses could guide embryonic development, defend young cells from virus infections
Our genomes are riddled with the detritus of ancient viruses. They infected our hominid ancestors tens of millions of years ...
FBI’s years of fumbling DNA evidence no surprise to scientists
The F.B.I. stunned the legal community with its acknowledgment that testimony by its forensic scientists about hair identification was scientifically indefensible ...
New genetic test will make breast cancer screening affordable for more women
A Silicon Valley start-up with some big-name backers is threatening to upend genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer by ...
New blood test could replace biopsy in detecting and monitoring cancer
In the usual cancer biopsy, a surgeon cuts out a piece of the patient’s tumor, but researchers in labs across ...
What’s the ideal amount of exercise for a healthy life?
Exercise has had a Goldilocks problem, with experts debating just how much exercise is too little, too much or just ...
European science academy links neonics to harm of many beneficial insects, not just bees
An influential European scientific body said on Wednesday that a group of pesticides believed to contribute to mass deaths of ...
Food fraud: Detective tests food for presence of GMOs, pesticides and more
Mansour Samadpour makes his way through the supermarket like a detective working a crime scene, slow, watchful, up one aisle ...
Long Island research center, NY hospitals join forces to find cancer treatments
Some of the world’s finest scientists live in a former whaling village on the North Shore of Long Island, in ...
Research doesn’t support fish oil’s supposed benefits for cardiovascular health
Fish oil is now the third most widely used dietary supplement in the United States, after vitamins and minerals, according ...
Can artist teach geneticists to comprehend masses of Big Data?
For the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been ...
In Iceland, treasure chest of genetic information may help find cures
Scientists in Iceland have produced an unprecedented snapshot of a nation’s genetic makeup, discovering a host of previously unknown gene ...
Angelina Jolie: ‘Why I’m getting my ovaries and fallopian tubes removed’
Two years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried ...
‘Stop farmers from being a science experiment; Get glyphosate off the market’
The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when ...
‘Great Indoors’: Your home is a jungle of tiny animal lodgers
When humans began building shelters about 20,000 years ago, we unrolled a welcome mat for other species. Over the past ...
GMO farmers give up plow, making for healthier soil
Neatly tilled fields have long been a hallmark of American agriculture and its farmers, by and large traditionalists who often ...
How natural poison drove evolution of South American community
The Atacama Desert straddles the Andes Mountains, reaching into parts of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Little rain falls on ...
Gene transfer therapy could replace vaccines, treat HIV
A team of scientists has announced what could prove to be an enormous step forward in the fight against H.I.V ...
How much of our DNA is junk?
The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, that is, the stretches of DNA that encode proteins. But these genes account ...
Renowned marine biologist and oceanographer Eugenie Clark dies
Eugenie Clark, whose childhood rapture with fish in a New York City aquarium led to a life of scholarly adventure ...
Take the New York Times’s interactive GMO food labeling quiz
Few industry debates are as heated these days as the one about labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. And ...
Software uses DNA to predict facial appearance
Mark D. Shriver, a professor of anthropology and genetics at Penn State University and his colleagues have studied the ways ...
Law and Order: Using DNA to generate suspects’ facial profiles
Police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect in a murder investigation. In what may ...
Debate ramps up on release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West
In this bite-size community near Key West, like so many other mosquito-plagued spots up and down the Florida Keys, residents ...
Why do East Asians have 20% more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans?
In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of ...
Neuroscientist Oliver Sacks’s reflects after receiving terminal cancer diagnosis
A month ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a ...
