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How the coronavirus pandemic flipped uber-liberal Marin County from vaccine rejectionist hub to shaming COVID vaccine skeptics
In the pandemic age, getting a Covid-19 shot has become the defining “vax” or “anti-vax” litmus test, and on that ...
Viewpoint: Bringing back extinct animals — Can breakthroughs in gene editing technology offset humanity’s dicey environmental stewardship track record?
Today, the only surviving members of the white rhino species are two females at a conservancy in Kenya, Najin and ...
NY Times’ Tom Friedman: US and its Western allies need to stop living in a green fantasy world that says we can go from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable energy by ‘just flipping a switch’
Putin thinks he’s found a cold war that he can win. He’s going to try to literally freeze the European ...
Can exercise reduce dementia risk?
Experts had long believed that exercise could help protect against developing dementia. However, though they had observed a general pattern ...
‘Superspreader’: New York Times documentary investigates natural products peddler and vaccine rejectionist Dr. Joseph Mercola
Sarah Long credits the information she found on Mercola.com with potentially saving her life. For years, she had health issues ...
Doggy dementia: Here’s what you need to know to protect your pet
A large new study of 15,019 dogs enrolled in the Dog Aging Project, an ongoing investigation into canine illness and ...
‘I found my people’: The path some parents travel to become anti-vaxxers
They waved signs that read “Defeat the mandates” and “No vaccines.” They chanted “Protect our kids” and “Our kids, our ...
‘Without major changes to agriculture, government targets for mitigating climate change are at risk’, scientists warn
For decades, scientists have pursued a tantalizing possibility for bolstering food supplies and easing hunger for the world’s poorest: improving ...
Just 10 years after its invention, CRISPR gene editing is taught in high schools
A decade after CRISPR started to become a major tool in genetic research, a new generation of scientists is growing up with the ...
CRISPR runs through it: From targeting diseases to transforming farming, gene editing has ushered in a science revolution
CRISPR continues to create new avenues for exploration and reinvigorate old studies ...
10 years old: CRISPR is revolutionizing medicine and agriculture, raising profound ethical questions
Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes ...
Viewpoint: America has yet to come to terms with — let alone make amends for — its racist sterilization practices during the early 20th century eugenics movement
In the summer of 1973, Minnie Lee and Mary Alice were taken from their home in Montgomery, cut open and ...
Where did monkeypox come from? Genetic analysis suggests it’s been ‘silently’ circulating since 2018
When the first monkeypox cases were identified in early May, European health officials were stumped. The virus was not known ...
3-D printed ears: First body part made with a person’s own cells
A 20-year-old woman who was born with a small and misshapen right ear has received a 3-D printed ear implant ...
Obesity, stress and chemicals: Do these factors explain why girls are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages?
Although it is difficult to tease apart cause and effect, earlier puberty may have harmful impacts, especially for girls. Girls ...
Embryo screening PGT-A tests may falsely identify healthy embryos as abnormal
When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took ...
Epidemic of loneliness: Post-COVID update on how emotional isolation damages our health
For two years you didn’t see friends like you used to. You missed your colleagues from work, even the barista ...
Food shortages and growing public anger boils over as Beijing-ordered lockdowns shut down major Chinese cities
Anger and anxiety over the Shanghai lockdown, now in its fourth week, has posed a rare challenge for China’s powerful ...
How COVID steals sense of smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
Despite globally low number of COVID cases, some experts fear Africa’s low vaccination rates
Many countries in the developed world are rapidly lifting restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine passports. There seems to be ...
Infographic: Here is how experts think the COVID virus will evolve
As scientists who study how viruses evolve, we are often asked about the future of the coronavirus. Will it go ...
How physician and biochemist Robert Malone went from falsely claiming to have invented the mRNA vaccine to becoming an infamous spreader of COVID disinformation
Dr. [Robert] Malone spent decades working in academic centers and with start-ups seeking to bring new medical treatments to market ...
99% effective birth control pill developed for male mice — but human version is a ways off
A buzzy new animal study offers another contender in the search for a male form of birth control. Researchers at the University ...
Is artificial intelligence the future of healthy eating?
DayTwo is just one of a host of apps claiming to offer A.I. eating solutions. Instead of a traditional diet, ...
Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?
Traci Portugal, who is in her 40s, lives in Washington State and runs the website DonorDeceived.org, which catalogs and tracks ...
Coping with loss: Should grieving for a loved one longer than a year be considered a mental illness?
After more than a decade of argument, psychiatry’s most powerful body in the United States added a new disorder this ...
Evusheld mystery: 7 million Americans are immunocompromised — but a drug that could protect the vulnerable against severe COVID is going unused
As much of the nation unmasks amid plummeting caseloads and fresh hope that the pandemic is fading, the Biden administration ...
Could the war in Ukraine spark a global food crisis?
A crucial portion of the world’s wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while ...
