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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 ...
Why touch is so important to emotional, physical wellbeing
Touch is the first of the senses to develop in the human infant, and it remains perhaps the most emotionally ...
Disgust over ‘unnaturalness’ of GMOs prime reason for opposition
Feelings of disgust are often immune to rationality. And with good reason: evolutionarily, disgust is an incredibly adaptive, life-saving reaction. We find ...
Will synthetic biology face same fate as GMOs?
On a cold weekend last month, more than two thousand undergraduate scientists took over two levels of Boston’s Hynes Convention ...
Axing of European science czar over GMO issues: 1 step forward for Greenpeace, 2 steps back for EU and science
Since 2012, the distinguished Scottish biologist Anne Glover has served as chief scientific adviser to the President of the European ...
DNA music? OK Go band to release ‘genetic album’
OK Go makes power-pop songs—verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. What sets the songs apart is the way in which they are ...
How Vietnam War vets aid in brain research
In 1967, William F. Caveness, a neurologist and veteran of the Korean War, began building a registry of living soldiers ...
Immunotherapy represents an entirely new strategy for cancer treatments
Most cancers, once they spread, are incurable. Cancer researchers are desperate to raise the number of patients who go into ...
New Yorker editor David Remnick responds to Vandana Shiva criticism of Michael Specter’s profile
The Vandana Shiva affair takes a new turn today with the release of The New Yorker Editor David Remnick's point-by-point ...
Michael Specter discusses his profile of Vandana Shiva
In last week’s The New Yorker magazine, Michael Specter wrote about the work of the environmental activist Vandana Shiva, who has, for ...
Don’t need much sleep? Thank your genes.
Allan Pack wasn’t always a sleep expert. He started his career as a pulmonologist and came to the University of ...
Most GMO label supporters don’t really support ‘right to know’
Editor's Note: Readers might also want to read the GLP infographic: Is labeling GMOs really about our “Right to Know”? *** ...
Vandana Shiva by Michael Specter: Demagogue or visionary?
Who believes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the USDA, National Academy ...
Feminist group struggles with defining ‘woman,’ accusations of transphobia
Is the feminist organization "Radfems Respond" falling behind the times by refusing to recognize trans women as female? Growing awareness ...
