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GM yeast successfully produces THC
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Woman’s dying wish: Can life be restored to a cryopreserved brain?
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Ohio’s pending Down syndrome abortion ban sparks emotional responses
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As legislators in Ohio ...
Banning abortion for Down syndrome extinguishes parents’ right to personal choice
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Big Organic and Big Ag both fund expenses, research as GMO debate intensifies
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How to cut farm use of pesticides: GMO moths, but anti-biotech groups wary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An invasive species, the diamondback ...
Acclaimed neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks dies at 82
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist ...
For ideologues, from GMOs to fluoridation, science is battleground of “hand-picked truths”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. In the 1960s, with ...
Ohio legislators set to approve bill banning abortions for women with Down syndrome fetuses
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Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
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Brain structure may provide clues to Caitlyn Jenner, gender identity mystery
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‘NeuroTribes’ explores autism’s history, tumultuous beginnings
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Paleo diet update: Carbs in tubers key to humans’ evolutionary boon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have long recognized ...
GMO white sea cucumbers could make costly Chinese delicacy affordable
Sea cucumbers, sluglike creatures that hug the seafloor, have long been a prized delicacy at Chinese banquets, the mark of ...
Office air-conditioning overuse promotes global warming…and sex discrimination?
It happens every summer: Offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into Popsicles. Finally, scientists (two men, for the ...
Genetically modified yeast shows off its artistic side
For centuries, humans have played around with yeast. In ancient days, we domesticated it to make beer and bread. Now, ...
Do major medical advances justify stem cell research with aborted fetuses?
Stem cell science is a big deal in California, thanks to the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a state agency that ...
Cancer cells are ‘cheaters’ in Darwin’s vision of evolution
Maybe it was in “some warm little pond,” Charles Darwin speculated in 1871, that life on Earth began. A few simple chemicals ...
Amazonians distant cousins of Australasians through ancient genetic link
Some people in the Brazilian Amazon are very distant relations of indigenous Australians, New Guineans and other Australasians, two groups ...
“The Vital Question” book explores evolutionary origins of life
How did rocks, air and water coalesce into the first living creatures on the primordial Earth? Why did complex life like ...
Ebola vaccine that can be inhaled shows promise in monkeys
A single dose of a new Ebola vaccine that can be inhaled has been found to neutralize the deadly virus ...
Black Swan author Nassim Taleb claims GMOs could lead to eco-disaster
Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and unsustainable, contrary ...
Couples’ perception of partners’ attractiveness can evolve over time
It seems logical for people with high mate value to insist on comparable partners, and there’s some evidence that they ...
Administration proposal to overhaul GMO regulations welcomed, but sharp divide on goals
The Obama administration said on July 2 that it would update the way the government regulated genetically modified crops and some ...
Genetics suggest wheat gluten allergies mostly imaginary
Some of the anti-glutenists argue that we haven’t eaten wheat for long enough to adapt to it as a species ...
Split over human germline modification illustrates idealogical divide between Chinese and Western science
China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually in an effort to become a leader in biomedical research, building scores ...
Flood of federal insurance money leads to growing fraud among some DNA testing firms
Dr. Scott Wilson often participated in medical studies, so the one being proposed by the New Orleans laboratory Renaissance RX ...
How your gut microbiome may affect your brain and emotions
Bacteria in the gut produce vitamins and break down our food; their presence or absence has been linked to obesity, ...