New Yorker
Is susceptibility to procrastination genetic?
Want to hear my favorite procrastination joke? I’ll tell you later. Piers Steel, a psychologist at the University of Calgary, ...
One family, one kid with a one-of-a-kind disease
The couple had their first child, a son, on December 9, 2007, not long after Matt completed his Ph.D. in ...
What neuroscience can tell us about PTSD and how to rewrite our memories
Fear and memory share many connections in the brain. By understanding that physiology and relationship, neuroscientist Daniela Schiller hopes to ...
Orchard of knowledge: Artist will insert Wikipedia’s catalog into DNA of apple trees
Last year, Joe Davis, the artist in residence at George Church’s genetics lab, at Harvard Medical School, received an unmarked ...
Debating GMOs: Anti Michael Pollan and plant scientist Pam Ronald break new ground with dialogue
Journalist Michael Pollan and plant geneticist Pamela Ronald set an important precedent when they convened the two sides of the ...
What de-extinction can’t bring back
There are a lots of potential problems with de-extinction, starting with the fact that, in any rigorous way, it’s probably ...
FDA v. personal genetic testing
The United States Food and Drug Administration is not known for its prose. So the warning letter that it sent ...
What’s wrong with Jeremy Seifert’s “GMO OMG”
I recently watched “OMG GMO,” Jeremy Seifert’s aggressively uninformed “documentary” about the corporate duplicity and governmental callousness that he says ...
Do genetic advantages make sports unfair?
In “The Sports Gene,” there are countless tales of the genetics of athletic excellence, examples of all the ways that ...
The psychology of distrusting GMOs
Psychologists have long observed that there is a continuum in what we perceive as natural or unnatural. As the psychologist Robert Sternberg wrote in ...
Should human genes be patented?
As the cost of genome sequencing plummets, we move closer to an era of personalized medicine, in which an individual’s ...
Mark Lynas: An environmentalist’s conversion
It has been more than fifteen years since companies like Monsanto began intense efforts to export agricultural biotechnology from the ...
