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Video: Plant defenses turn caterpillar pests into cannibals
If you’re a hungry caterpillar and you’ve got a choice between eating a plant or another caterpillar, which do you ...
Clues to autism in how we are genetically programmed to look at faces
How we look at other people’s faces is strongly influenced by our genes, scientists have found in new research that ...
Addictions: Are overeating and drug use hardwired in the brain’s ‘reward circuit’?
Neuroscientists have found that food and recreational drugs have a common target in the “reward circuit” of the brain, and ...
NY Times on Food Evolution movie: ‘In a world desperate for safe, sustainable food, GMOs may well be a force for good’
The scientific method is under siege, and not just from naysayers who dismiss climate change or fear vaccines. G.M.O.s — ...
Downside to editing out ‘bad genes’: We might need them later
[With CRISPR, couples] may soon be able to edit [genes linked to genetic disorders] right out of their own sperm, ...
10 more years: Men with this common gene mutation may live longer, grow taller
A common genetic mutation is linked to an increase in life span of about 10 years among men...The mutation, described ...
Prospective psychology: Brain’s focus on future guides our behavior and survival
What best distinguishes our species [from other animals] is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate ...
Breast implants carry increased lymphoma risk for rare few
Raylene Hollrah was 33, with a young daughter, when she learned she had breast cancer. She made a difficult decision, ...
Pooched-out pooches: Obesity-prone dog breeds help us understand and treat overweight humans
[A] research associate let each dog sniff a hot dog before demonstratively placing it inside a small plastic hamster cage ...
Sniffing out the truth: Humans do have a good sense of smell
[It's] conventional wisdom that humans’ sense of smell is worse than that of other animals — dogs, mice, moles and ...
Does the administration’s block of the chlorpyrifos pesticide ban signal a changing regulatory landscape?
One of the first things this administration did was to rescind a government proposal to ban a pesticide used on ...
After warning label victory, California activists push for a glyphosate herbicide ban
[A]fter a yearlong legal battle, California’s environmental health agency has announced that it will list it as a known carcinogen ...
FDA approves 23andMe direct-to-consumer genetic tests for 10 diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow a company to sell genetic tests for ...
We may soon resurrect extinct species with genetic engineering — but should we?
Scientists just might revive the woolly mammoth...by splicing genes from ancient mammoths into Asian elephant DNA...But here’s a sad irony ...
Can a specific exercise make you smarter: Sprinting, jogging or weightlifting?
Exercise...augments adult neurogenesis, which is the creation of new brain cells in an already mature brain...[R]esearchers at the University of ...
EPA/Monsanto collusion alleged in lawsuit challenging safety of Roundup herbicide
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's coverage of glyphosate's cancer risk here and here. Read the American Council on Science and Health's ...
3 women blinded after receiving stem cell therapy for macular degeneration
Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at ...
How the woolly mammoth met its end: DNA analysis reveals ‘genomic meltdown’
In an island north of the eastern tip of Siberia, a small group of woolly mammoths became the last survivors ...
Ignorance and the brain: Why people are so quick to believe falsehoods
How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false? The question has taken on new urgency as the ...
How genetics can bring flavor back to tomatoes
Harry J. Klee, a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, thinks he can put [the taste] back ...
Gene-edited ants could shed light on human society, disease
[Daniel Kronauer of Rockefeller University and his colleagues] have manipulated the DNA of Cerapachys biroi ants, creating what Dr. Kronauer says are ...
How Neanderthal DNA shaped the human genome
[These excerpts were taken from a New York Times interview with John Anthony Capra, an evolutionary genomics professor.] Geneticists tell ...
Syndactyly: Family’s ‘fused fingers’ deformity sheds light on human genome
They said it was their family curse: a rare congenital deformity called syndactyly, in which the thumb and index finger ...
Stem cell revolution trudges forward
[Editor's note: The following is excerpts from an interview with Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
Will the public be more accepting of next-generation gene-edited crops than GMOs?
A new generation of crops known as gene-edited rather than genetically modified is coming to the market. Created through new ...
Advances in CRISPR, gene editing helping ‘clean tech’ get off ground after years of failure
A decade ago, a group of biologists, venture capitalists and computer whizzes...hoped to overturn polluting industries with microorganisms cheerily excreting ...
Ties to biotech corporations within Congress’s biotech panel could skew crucial policies
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are assigned by Congress to provide policy guidance to the government...One of ...
Allergic to peanuts? Genetic engineering may provide a rescue
Allergic reactions to peanuts cause around 500 hospitalizations and even some deaths in the United States each year. ... Accidentally ...
