GM yeast successfully produces THC

Roxanna Khamsi | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In August, researchers announced ...
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Woman’s dying wish: Can life be restored to a cryopreserved brain?

Amy Harmon | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In the moments just ...
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Ohio’s pending Down syndrome abortion ban sparks emotional responses

Marie Tessier | New York Times | 
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

Mark Lawrence Schrad | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  That abortion is not ...
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Big Organic and Big Ag both fund expenses, research as GMO debate intensifies

Eric Lipton | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article from The New York Times to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and ...
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How to cut farm use of pesticides: GMO moths, but anti-biotech groups wary

Devin Powell | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An invasive species, the diamondback ...
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Acclaimed neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks dies at 82

Gregory Cowles | New York Times | 
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”

George Johnson | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. In the 1960s, with ...
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Ohio legislators set to approve bill banning abortions for women with Down syndrome fetuses

Tamar Lewin | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Opening a new front ...
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Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring

Stephanie Strom | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...

Brain structure may provide clues to Caitlyn Jenner, gender identity mystery

Richard A. Friedman | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  We’re learning to be ...
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‘NeuroTribes’ explores autism’s history, tumultuous beginnings

Jennifer Senior | New York Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Autism, as the science ...
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Paleo diet update: Carbs in tubers key to humans’ evolutionary boon

Carl Zimmer | New York Times | 
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

Crystal Tse | New York Times | 
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?

Pam Belluck | New York Times | 
It happens every summer: Offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into Popsicles. Finally, scientists (two men, for the ...
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Genetically modified yeast shows off its artistic side

Joanna Klein | New York Times | 
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?

Nathalia Holt | New York Times | 
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

George Johnson | New York Times | 
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

James Gorman | New York Times | 
Some people in the Brazilian Amazon are very distant relations of indigenous Australians, New Guineans and other Australasians, two groups ...
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“The Vital Question” book explores evolutionary origins of life

Tim Requarth | New York Times | 
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

Nicholas St. Fleur | New York Times | 
A single dose of a new Ebola vaccine that can be inhaled has been found to neutralize the deadly virus ...
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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

John Tierney | New York Times | 
It seems logical for people with high mate value to insist on comparable partners, and there’s some evidence that they ...
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Administration proposal to overhaul GMO regulations welcomed, but sharp divide on goals

Andrew Pollack | New York Times | 
The Obama administration said on July 2 that it would update the way the government regulated genetically modified crops and some ...
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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

Didi Kirsten Tatlow | New York Times | 
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 ...
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How your gut microbiome may affect your brain and emotions

Peter Andrey Smith | New York Times | 
Bacteria in the gut produce vitamins and break down our food; their presence or absence has been linked to obesity, ...
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