After mapping human genome, scientists release catalog of proteins that help make them work

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
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

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
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

Adam Piore | Popular Science | 
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

Douglas Main | Popular Science | 
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?

Colin Lecher | Popular Science | 
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?

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
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

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
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

Akshat Rathi, Declan Perry | Popular Science | 
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

Christopher Kemp | Popular Science | 
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

Brooke Borel | Popular Science | 
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

Gabe Bergado | Popular Science | 
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

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
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?

Brooke Borel | Popular Science | 
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

Douglas Main | Popular Science | 
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

Jason Tetro | Popular Science | 
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

Daniel Rokhsar | Popular Science | 
As a geneticist. I spend a lot of time looking at genomes. But until I taught my “Genetics and Society” ...
Borrelia burgdorferi lyme disease

Can organisms evolve the ability to evolve?

Francis Diep | Popular Science | 
A new study finds that bacteria, like the species that spreads lyme disease, may have evolved the ability to evolve ...

Genetics in the Caribbean show marks of Atlantic slave trade

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
The Caribbean's complex history has given the area more than diverse languages and delicious food. The indigenous South Americans, Europeans ...

How a gene for fair skin spread across India

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
Cover Girl, Maybelline, are you listening? A new study of skin color in South Asians finds they have enormous diversity, ...

Your ancestors probably didn’t crawl

Kate Gammon | Popular Science | 
You have to crawl before you walk… unless you don’t. While crawling is considered a major developmental milestone in most ...

Dogs (and humans) might have some of their older sibling’s cells

Shaunacy Ferro | Popular Science | 
Here's a mystery: A golden retriever gives birth to a litter of puppies. It's not her first birth, and something's ...

Mysteries of autism and schizophrenia unlocked by new cell study techniques

When Feng Zhang was in graduate school, he discovered that the tools for splicing new genes into living cells were ...

Sequencing genomes of entire microcosmic ecosystems

Viruses are the most abundant entities on the planet—and among the most mysterious. Mya Breitbart, a microbial ecologist at the ...

Researchers find a gene for obesity

Dan Nosowitz | Popular Science | 
Over four years, 1,200 pigs were given nearly unlimited access to food to see how much they'd eat, how often, ...

How having three parents leads to disease-free kids

Virginia Hughes | Popular Science | 
This summer, government health officials in the United Kingdom made headlines by announcing that they will let scientists create babies ...

Giving up the impossible dream of genetic privacy could help everyone

Erin Biba | Popular Science | 
In January, scientists scared the world by using public information to find the names behind five people’s anonymous, public DNA ...

The science and troubling ethics of gene therapy

Francie Diep | Popular Science | 
Why is progress on gene therapy—the treatment of genetic disorders by giving sick people doses of the healthy genes they ...

What’s the point of sex?

Benjamin Ewen-Campen | Popular Science | 
This may seem obvious. But in evolutionary terms, the benefits of sexual reproduction are not immediately clear. Male rhinoceros beetles ...
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