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What you probably don’t know: For most fast-food fans, bioengineering isn’t a choice — it’s the norm
Think you’re grabbing a quick “natural” bite from your favorite burger joint? Think again. Whether you order a Big Mac, ...
CRISPR brain ‘gene editing’ could open the door to cure neurological diseases
[A] recent "spate of technological advances" could see something like brain editing become a reality. Recent breakthroughs in CRISPR-derived gene-editing ...
6 (relatively) recent examples proving that humans are still evolving
[H]uman evolution hasn’t paused for a coffee break – it’s been running at full speed, reshaping our species in ways ...
Unlocking the mystery of how plants communicate
Researchers at the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) at Cornell University have taken a huge step toward making plant ...
Out of Africa? Intriguing evidence that early humans may have moved from Europe into Africa not the other way around
For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago ...