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Is the nucleolus the key to stopping cellular aging?
Under a microscope, it’s hard to miss. Take just about any cell, find the nucleus, then look inside it for ...
The infamous life and death of biohacker Aaron Traywick
In the span of two years, Aaron Traywick, who was 28 when he died, went from a virtual unknown to ...
Consumer DNA tests: Answering questions ‘we didn’t even know we had’
23andMe is among a crop of new services that have arrived to help us mine our genetic material for answers ...
Which foods does the USDA’s proposed ‘bioengineered’ label cover?
The United States Department of Agriculture has proposed new guidelines for labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. Food makers will ...
Immunotherapy as a last resort for terminal cancer patients
Dr. Oliver Sartor has a provocative question for patients who are running out of time. Most are dying of prostate ...
Close to home: Biologist was studying gene now linked to daughter’s rare illness
By the time her mother received the doctor’s email, Yuna Lee was already 2 years old, a child with a ...
Menopause may put women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s
[W]e are only beginning to understand is why women are more susceptible [to Alzheimer's]. What factors differentiate women from men, ...
Viewpoint: California’s coffee cancer label isn’t backed by evidence—and could do more harm than good
About two-thirds of smokers will die early from cigarette-based illnesses. Cigarettes are also very addictive. Because of this, it seems reasonable to place warnings ...
The rove beetle may help us ‘answer questions about evolution’ other insects can’t
It is rare that a new organism is introduced as a model for study in biology, but Dr. [Joseph] Parker ...
Viewpoint: Why consumers should reconsider ‘blanket opposition’ to GMO crops
It’s human nature, it seems, to resist change and fear the unknown. So it is no surprise that genetic engineering ...
Regenerative agriculture: Can ‘carbon farming’ help battle climate change by improving soil health?
[Regenerative agriculture's] guiding principle is not just to farm sustainably — that implies mere maintenance of what might, after all, ...
‘Natural traveler’? Humans may not be responsible for sweet potato’s migration from South America to Pacific
Of all the plants that humanity has turned into crops, none is more puzzling than the sweet potato. Indigenous people ...
Viewpoint: Time to reassess Nazi Hans Asperger’s role in study of autism
I have spent the past seven years researching the Nazi past of Dr. Hans Asperger. Asperger is credited with shaping ...
Viewpoint: ‘Race’ may be a social construct, but denying ancestral-based group genetic differences is ‘indefensible’
With the help of [advances in DNA sequencing], we are learning that while race may be a social construct, differences ...
‘All of Us’: NIH biobank set to collect genomes of 1 million people to address chronic diseases
This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever ...
Conservation steward challenge: Which endangered species should we intervene to save?
[O]ur role as stewards of the earth is becoming more and more like that of doctors in a global intensive-care ...
Unexplained ailments? Genetic mutations may be responsible
Gregor Mendel discovered fundamental rules of genetics by raising pea plants. He realized that hidden factors — we now know ...
World’s largest family tree could help explain why we stopped marrying our cousins
Before the Industrial Revolution in the United States, Canada and Europe, you might have ended up married to a fourth ...
Viewpoint: How ‘Big Food’ co-opted the organic movement
I was recently dispatched to a Target to buy some Goldfish, which was a more daunting task than you might ...
‘Natural’ food label heads to court
In recent years, one bright spot in an otherwise lackluster market for packaged foods, beverages and consumer products has been ...
Lost rice variety cultivated by US slaves rediscovered in Trinidad—and coming to your plates
Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a ...
The regenerating axolotl: What can we learn from its giant genome?
Scientists have decoded the genome of the axolotl, the Mexican amphibian with a Mona Lisa smile. It has 32 billion ...
Why news of cloned monkeys doesn’t mean humans are next
Researchers in China reported on [January 24] that they have created two cloned monkeys, the first time that primates have ...
Can gene therapy reduce terminal cancers to minor chronic diseases that are ‘no different than high blood pressure’?
On Oct. 15 at 8 a.m., Andy Lindsay stood atop 21,247-foot Mera Peak in Nepal, a wildly improbable place for ...
Designer proteins could help us fight flu, remove gluten from foods
[Researchers have] been stumped by one great mystery: how the building blocks in a protein take their final shape. David ...
First US baby born from living donor uterus transplant
For the first time in the United States, a woman who had a uterus transplant has given birth. The mother, ...
Gene therapy challenge: Overcoming shortage of key and expensive viruses
Eager to speed development of revolutionary treatments, the Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it would expedite approval of ...
French President Macron advocates glyphosate herbicide ban within 3 years
The European Union voted on Monday [Nov. 27] to extend its authorization for the world’s best-selling herbicide for an abbreviated ...
