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Appreciating nature’s beauty and symmetry without attributing it to a creator
I remember the chill I felt, 27 years ago, when I picked up the latest edition of Scientific American magazine ...
NIH to researchers: study males and females equally from cellular studies on up
Amid growing evidence that many drugs are not as effective in women as in men, the National Institutes of Health ...
Antibiotic resistance now major threat to public health
The Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico is a network of chambers stretching 1,600 feet underground. The bacteria that grow on ...
GMO critic NY Times foodie Mark Bittman says dangers of crop biotechnology “overrated”
In a reversal, New York Times food writer, Mark Bittman--a frequent critic--says the dangers of GMOs is exaggerated. He contends ...
Genetic and maternal factors play larger role in neonatal brain injuries, long blamed on lack of oxygen during birth
It was long assumed that brain injuries in newborns resulted from insufficient oxygen during labor or delivery. Distressed parents often ...
Genetic primer course brought to you by New York Times
From junk DNA that, as it turns out, is not so junky after all, to the unique signatures in different ...
Dating the origin of our genes
Each of us carries just over 20,000 genes that encode everything from the keratin in our hair down to the ...
Open-source Personal Genome Project looks at all aspects of human experience
Abigail Wark wants to see your areolas. But only if you are a participant in the Personal Genome Project, a ...
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 ...
