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‘Year of the Plague’: The New Yorker explores America’s continuing tragedy
In October, 2019, the first Global Health Security Index appeared, a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal ...
Coronavirus evolutionary tree can illuminate pandemic’s ‘past, present and possible future’
For anyone who knows how to look, the past, present, and possible futures of the new coronavirus can be found ...
Is there any point in living longer if we can’t stay young?
Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. ... "...Over the past century, ...
‘Synthetic media’: How AI could make the era of ‘fake news’ far worse
In the emerging world of “synthetic media,” the work of digital-image creation—once the domain of highly skilled programmers and Hollywood ...
Are genes more important than practice for excelling in games, sports, and academics?
[The] age-old debate: nature versus nurture, genetics versus effort. We’ve been having it long before we knew what DNA was...[T]he ...
Should Hawaii use GM mosquitoes to save its endangered birds?
The 2016 [World Conservation Congress] has been held in Hawaii, which is fitting, since the state is often referred to ...
GMO mosquitoes could save Hawaii’s critically endangered birds
[M]osquitoes, which carry avian malaria, are a principal reason that just forty-two of more than a hundred species of native ...
Researchers attempt to track Hannibal’s legendary journey from ancient horse manure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than two thousand ...
American eugenics movement was dark time for science and society
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Carrie Buck was born ...
Scientists use ‘assisted evolution’ in attempt to save coral reefs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Hawaii Institute of ...
Schizophrenia’s family ties invoke necessity of genetics in mental illness research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. That schizophrenia runs in ...
For precision medicine to work, genetics knowledge needs to catch up to science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a recent speech ...
Cancer treatment guidelines limit use of unorthodox cures, hinder medical progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vince DeVita served as ...
Can bacterial infection fight off a brain tumor?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Among the people waiting ...
Fish story: Salmon eaten in US modified even before genetic engineering
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As strange as the ...
Body’s immune response may be factor in Alzheimer’s risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Inflammation occurs when the ...
How did CRISPR’s discovery transform genetic research?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR as two components. The ...
What does dust in your house say about you?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dust talks. That clump ...
Are cats really as domesticated as we think they are?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At first, the cat ...
Mysterious DNA in brain unexpected blessing for evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mutations can cost an ...
Can the Chinese government overcome public mistrust of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In China, food security ...
Do we have an intrinsic, evolutionary disgust of cockroaches?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cockroaches have been smeared ...
Sci-fi drama ‘Sense8’ explores transhumanism in positive light
The defining scene of “Sense8,” the new sci-fi drama on Netflix, comes about halfway through the first season. It starts ...
America is experiencing its worst bird flu outbreak ever: Why aren’t we more concerned?
Which epidemic has caused Americans greater anxiety: the Ebola outbreak, which began last year in Africa and has killed thousands ...
Can emeging field of optogenetics transform how scientists study brain and mental health?
For much of the history of brain research, it has been nearly impossible to accurately test ideas about how the ...
Rabies virus becomes unlikely tool for mapping brain networks
Humans have a long tradition of turning things that harm us into things that help us. We made bears into ...
Ctenophores, long-underestimated outcast of animal kingdom, now challenge design of evolutionary tree
In the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a group of scientists published a tub-thumping defense of sponges and other ...
Weighing risks of glyphosate should lead to mindful use not elimination
Late last month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, issued a report ...
