New York Times
New fossil evidence reignites debate on pace of human evolution
For scientists who study human evolution, the last few months have been a whirlwind. Every couple of weeks, it seems, ...
Is there a genetic basis for being unfaithful?
When I was trained as a psychiatrist we were told to look for various emotional and developmental factors to explain ...
John Nash, inspiration for ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ dies in car accident
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach ...
Test for plaque in brain might clue future Alzheimer’s risk
The largest analysis to date of amyloid plaques in people’s brains confirms that the presence of the substance can help ...
Organic food processor SunOpta to have first USDA-verified non-GMO label
A little-known but publicly traded organic food processing company, SunOpta, has persuaded the federal government that its system for detecting ...
How psychologist made decision to end own life after Alzheimer’s diagnosis
For two years, Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor, had been experiencing what she called “cognitive oddities”: forgetting the names of ...
In medicine, listening to the patient matters
Medicine is dominated by the quants. We learn about human health from facts, and facts are measurable. A disease is ...
Scientist who discovered CRISPR/Cas9 weighs future of new technology
Three years ago, Jennifer A. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped make one of the most monumental ...
Why GMO-giant Monsanto made offer for Syngenta’s chemical-focused company
Over the last two decades Monsanto has cast off its century-long history as a chemical company and refashioned itself as ...
Mark Bittman: Food movement has bigger issues to tackle than GMO labeling
There is some talk about the food movement’s winning. I’m not even sure such a thing as a food movement ...
Panera creates ‘no-no’ ingredient list in response to consumer demand
In doing so, Panera Bread will join the growing ranks of food companies and restaurants that have announced plans to eliminate a ...
Cellular ‘doughnut’ marks most important stage of human development
Embryos of many organisms grow from two cells to four, then eight, and so on until there are thousands in ...
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 ...
