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‘Incredibly rare’ extinct Siberian horse to be cloned
Scientists recently extracted an almost perfectly preserved prehistoric baby horse from the permafrost of Siberia’s “Mouth of Hell” crater in Yakutia. At ...
Olympic genes? China will use genetic tests to help choose its athletes
Chinese athletes aiming to represent their country in the 2022 Winter Olympics will undergo genetic testing as part of the ...
Why cancer research should focus more on African genomes
In the past, African patients have had poor access to medical advances, even as scientists use them as research subjects ...
Can we treat autism with CRISPR gene editing?
Scientists have figured how to use a form of the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR to erase genetic traits normally associated ...
‘De-extinction’ could revive vanished Tasmanian tiger—or something close to it
With the stripes of a tiger, the body shape of a dog and the pouch of a kangaroo, the Australian ...
Walking upright emerged long before modern humans
The question of whether our early ancestors walked fully upright or in a crouched position, like apes, has long been ...
Viewpoint: EWG’s Dirty Dozen foods and pesticides list scares people away from healthy eating
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) on [April 10] released its 2018 “Dirty Dozen” list to showcase the top pesticide-riddled fruits and vegetables. But some argue ...
Direct-to-consumer genetic test results 40 percent wrong in small study
At-home DNA tests are “not intended for medical use,” meaning that the data they give you shouldn’t be used as ...
Kosher pork? Meat from cloned pigs and lab-grown meat are Kosher, prominent Israeli rabbi says
Prominent Israeli Rabbi Yuval Cherlow says meat from a cloned pig would be considered kosher under Jewish dietary laws. Cherlow, ...
Study of 54,000 farmers finding no glyphosate-cancer link could sink Monsanto lawsuit
More than 300 lawsuits have been filed on behalf of farmers and others who said that Monsanto's popular weed killer, Roundup, gave them ...
Do humans and apes share ‘universal body language’?
Now, new research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology has shown that chimps and bonobos may be able to understand each ...
Will evolution protect humans from alcoholism?
Humans may be evolving a genetic variant that would make them physically unable to consume large amounts of alcohol, new research suggests ...
Should we be treating autism with marijuana?
4-year-old Benjamin is repeatedly smashing his head against the wall. He spins wildly in circles, screeching at full volume. … ...
Speech mystery: Language relies on brain pathways that predate human beings
New research has identified the brain systems involved in language learning and discovered that these systems pre-date the human species ...
Viewpoint: Russia Today’s ‘fake news’ about GMOs is a strategic attack by Putin on US science and technology
On Sunday [Jan. 7], CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a segment on the propaganda role of Russian news network RT, or ...
We still don’t know how anesthesia works—but we’re one step closer to figuring it out
If you’re planning to have major surgery soon, you might not want to read this next sentence. Scientists don’t actually ...
Halitosis: The genetic basis of bad breath
Most people would tell you that bad breath is brought on by a combination of bad luck and garlic. According ...
Genetics and eating: Why diets don’t work the same for everyone
New research from scientists at Texas A&M University found that a standard diet doesn’t work for everyone, in a study ...
Has the mystery of who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls been solved?
Dozens of skeletons discovered in the Judean Desert may finally reveal who wrote the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, a mystery that ...
Our brains grow and shrink when we learn—which is how we continue to absorb knowledge
Our past understanding of the brain would suggest that new knowledge requires new brain cells, and as a result our ...
Will we learn anything from the brain of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock?
The brain that sat in the skull of the Las Vegas shooter [Stephen Paddock] as he planned out his attack, ...
Rooting racism and sexism out of artificial intelligence
In 2016, Microsoft released a “playful” chatbot named Tay onto Twitter designed to show off the tech giant’s burgeoning artificial ...
Genetics of attraction: Unique women’s body smells attract men
The team, based at the University of Bern, wanted to know if a protein called human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, ...
Muscular pigs in Cambodia raise false concerns about GMO technology, safety
Pigs are being bred on a farm in Cambodia, and their enormous size and hulking muscles are raising alarm. The ...
Who gave humans genital herpes? Maybe this ancient ancestor
Genital herpes infects about one in six American adults. But who was patient zero, the individual responsible for this irritating scourge? Researchers in ...
Extreme Male Brain Theory? Girls with autism have characteristically more masculine faces
A new study suggests that boys and girls with autism have facial features that are characteristically more male than female. [...] ...
CRISPR gene editing advances may outrun regulatory oversight
[Recently,] reports emerged that scientists in Oregon had used gene-editing technology, known as CRISPR-Cas9, to edit a human embryo. While ...
Oxygen therapy reverses brain damage in toddler who nearly drowned
In what is believed to be a world first, scientists have reversed brain damage in a toddler that drowned in ...
