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Reconstructing ancestors’ genomes using DNA data from descendants
David Speegle was a preacher in Alabama in the 1800s. Apparently he was very serious about the Bible's charge to ...
Precision mutagenesis: Are new genome crop editing technologies more ‘natural’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past 10,000 ...
Genome of worm removed from man’s brain mapped
For many years, a Chinese man in the U.K. experienced a range of debilitating neurological symptoms with no understood origin--including ...
Researcher probes why viruses remain genetically stable for some time, then rapidly mutate
Unlike most kids, Katia Koelle’s first love was math, a passion she picked up from enthusiastic instructors. “One of my ...
Lightning strikes donated energy to ‘primordial soup’ that became life
In the early 1950s, a chemist named Stanley Miller mixed up a bunch of gases including methane, ammonia and hydrogen. That's ...
Scientists create bacteria that excrete propane
Propane, the gas that fuels your barbecue (and perhaps one day your car), may soon have a new, renewable source ...
Do epigenetics reports unfairly target mothers?
Epigenetics studies expand what scientists understand about human genetics. It's a very cool field. It's gathered some media attention, as ...
Future ‘bleak’ for genetically identical Cavendish bananas
Two weeks ago, at a conference in South Africa, scientists met to discuss how to contain a deadly banana disease ...
Addressing ethical questions in pregnancy, genetic disease and baby traits
When Kira Walker was born, on June 13, 2013, her parents and doctors knew she might have health issues. Her ...
Popular Science debunks 10 GMO myths
Amid the ongoing controversy over genetically modified organisms and the debate over labeling them, science magazine Popular Science joins in ...
GM meat in development but politics, consumer concerns pose high hurdles
There are no genetically engineered animals sold for human consumption right now. The only candidate that's anywhere close, AquaBounty's fast-growing ...
Justice requires that forensic sciences be standardized to protect the innocent
Santae Tribble is one of more than 350 people who have been exonerated by DNA testing after going to prison ...
After mapping human genome, scientists release catalog of proteins that help make them work
Two teams of scientists are publishing first drafts of the human proteome. The proteome is a catalog of all of ...
Lab grown burgers may be too pricey (and weird?) for mainstream market
Made with some breadcrumbs, egg, and 20,000 lab-grown cow muscle cells, the world's first lab-grown burger made its debut last ...
Uploading his brain to computer, neuroscientist looks for key to extending life
In the back of the audience, carefully reviewing his notes, sat Randal Koene, a bespectacled neuroscientist wearing black cargo pants, ...
Short men live longer thanks to FOXO3 gene
It's nice to be tall, right? Sure, it's great... unless you want to become an astronaut, or a horse jockey, ...
Do we need regulation for coming brain augmentation technologies?
If you could permanently change your brain to work better, would you? Or, maybe more importantly, would you have the ...
Why no treatment for mutation that causes alcohol-digesting enzyme deficiency in Asian populations?
Between the two of us, my roommate and I have the, uhh, digestive problems that are more common in people ...
Physician sees disorder for decade before genotyping can confirm genetic link
It was more than ten years ago that Dr. Tally Lerman-Sagie first saw babies with PCCA, a genetic disorder that ...
Lifestyle affects personal microbiome
Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or ...
Species catalogs may need resorting based on genetics
Deep within the labyrinthine interior of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, at the end of a cluster ...
Recent stories got it wrong–Rats not exonerated from causing Black Plague
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scholars have debated the ...
Tibetan dogs evolved to breathe thin mountain air
See Spot run. See Lassie save Timmy from a well. See Tibetan Mastiffs climb 4,500 meters above sea level on ...
Fruit flies engineered to glow when they sense cancer
Fruit flies are able to distinguish breast cancer cells from healthy mammary tissue, according to a new study. The humble ...
How did blood-sucking insects evolve to… suck blood?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the past several ...
Humans may have less coding genes than worms
Once upon a time in the 1960s, scientists thought the human genome might contain as many as 2 million genes, ...
New year, new flu evolution
Every year around this time, the age-old practice of making New Year’s Resolutions takes center stage as millions of people ...
One geneticist’s take on the 23andMe FDA warning
As a geneticist. I spend a lot of time looking at genomes. But until I taught my “Genetics and Society” ...
