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Neanderthals and modern humans: It’s personal
I never met my paternal grandfather. He died of the Spanish flu in 1919 at the age of 30, before ...
DNA test for cervical cancer gets FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first alternative to the long-used Pap test as a primary screening ...
Politics behind farmer suicide claims in India
As politicians scramble for India’s 815 million votes in the most expensive and closely contested general election in the nation’s history, ...
Optogenetics: Light can control behavior when genes mediate
Dr. Karl Deisseroth is having a very early breakfast before the day gets going at the annual meeting of the ...
Forget it Freud: Female phallus found
A Brazilian cave insect has done a most unusual sex-role reversal, a new study finds: Females have penises, and males ...
Mummy geneticist’s memoir
In the summer of 1981, a Swedish graduate student named Svante Paabo filled a laboratory at the University of Uppsala ...
Africa needs farming technologies to jumpstart Green Revolution
African governments need to invest in agricultural infrastructure and technology, and create a new Green Revolution for Africa ...
Genes may influence how much we like exercise
It’s possible that some of us are born not to run. According to an eye-opening new genetics study of lab ...
Fear of insurance, employment loophole may keep some from sequencing their genomes
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as ...
What does it means to donate your genetics but not be a father?
It’s not unheard-of for a lesbian couple to ask a close male friend to donate; but I’d naively assumed that ...
Do vaccines cause autism? No, it’s in the genes
Over the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of studies linking autism to a wide variety of genetic and ...
Texas GMO labeling advocates face stiff opposition
When Eric Herm heard in 2005 that genetically modified cottonseeds were the latest innovation on the market, he thought he ...
Evil twin of embryos: The tumor
Researchers are finding that the genes and biological mechanisms that guide the development of fetal cells within a fetus are ...
Resurrection ecology: Searching for ancient DNA
Scientists can revive thousand-year dormant mosses and they're searching for viable cells that would make it possible to revive extinct ...
Faults in stem cell acid bath study
A study billed as a breakthrough in stem cell research contained a spliced image, material recycled from the lead author’s ...
Korean scientist’s new project: rebuild after cloning disgrace
No one galvanized South Korea’s national pride as he did, and no scandal in recent years unsettled the country as ...
Genetic entrepreneur J. Craig Venter to tackle the problem of human aging
Craig Venter sequenced the first human genome. He made the first synthetic cell. And now, for his next trick, he's ...
Rare mutation kills off diabetes gene
A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people ...
Powerful new DNA-editing method
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they ...
Video: Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs
Andrew Revkin led a Google Hangout discussion with Shelley Boris, a chef committed to conscientious cuisine and author of “Fresh ...
Matching dog DNA to droppings, to clean up Naples, Italy
Problems? Yes, conceded Tommaso Sodano, the vice mayor here, Naples has problems. Unpaid debts have reportedly topped $2 billion. Many ...
We should use genetic engineering to treat disease, not fundamentally alter future children
The mitochondrial manipulation that the FDA is considering would start us down the slippery slope toward human experimentation with unknown ...
Genetics of being a daredevil
Watching participants in slopestyle and half-pipe skiing and snowboarding flip, curl, cartwheel and otherwise contort themselves in the air during ...
DNA of basketball: Generation after generation of NBA All-Stars
For a growing number of fathers and sons, the N.B.A. is a family business. This season, 19 second-generation players have ...
Genetic Atlas: Human history of moving around and fooling around
New statistical approaches are giving us our first real shot at pulling apart the genome to see when human populations ...
After 13 years in regulation limbo, GM corn steps closer to approval in Europe
After 13 years, six scientific opinions and two legal challenges, an insect-resistant type of corn is on the verge of ...
Preparing for the inevitable: DNA tests for newborns
Today, parents don't need to deal with the knowledge of genetic pitfalls that might lie ahead for their offspring. But ...
Chinese, with genetic research lagging, caught stealing ‘designer’ hybrid seeds
China's latest economic espionage target may be biotech seeds in an attempt to circumvent years of costly and expensive research ...
