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How did early humans avoid being wiped out by tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is responsible for as many as one billion deaths in the last 200 years alone, but its murderous history ...
First plants didn’t evolve flower color to attract pollinators, study suggests
Flowering plants feature a wondrous array of colors, the primary purpose of which is to attract insect pollinators. But this ...
Ancient Egyptians loved beer. Here’s the recipe they used to brew it
The ancient Egyptians loved beer. According to Mohamed A. Farag, a Professor of Chemistry at The American University in Cairo: ...
Too many carbs, calories? Nope. Lack of fiber biggest problem with American diets
Ask Americans about what they think is the biggest problem with their diets and you'll probably hear a variety of ...
Viewpoint: 5 popular Netflix documentaries serve up pseudoscience about agriculture, chemicals and nutrition
Netflix brought in $15.8 billion in revenue in 2018 in part because the streaming service floods subscribers with a deluge ...
Viewpoint: Intellectual property tug-of-war could hinder the CRISPR gene-editing revolution
Conservative estimates place the value-added of [intellectual property] on the American economy at nearly $1 trillion annually... ... Take, for instance, ...
Viewpoint: New director of International Agency for Research on Cancer, under fire for promoting cancer fears, likely to maintain status quo
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a World Health Organization subsidiary mired in controversy, picked Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass ...
Viewpoint: The government can’t decide what a GMO is—so how is it going to require mandatory labeling?
If the food industry and government cannot come to a consensus about what is a GMO and what isn’t, labeling ...
Gold mine in our body? Should researchers pay for using our plasma cells?
By donating blood plasma, you can make anywhere from $40 to $100 per week. But that's loose change to Ted ...
How does promiscuity in females impact evolution?
Darwin’s original ideas about sexual selection were based largely on males competing for mates, either by fighting among themselves or ...
Environmental Working Group wrong: Pesticide levels in food determined safe
A new analysis published in the International Journal of Food Contamination shows that pesticide residues in food are at levels ...
Scientists just calculated the total amount of DNA there is on Earth
The Earth is brimming with life, and within that life, is information, stored in strands of deoxyribonucleic acid: DNA. This ...
In Yellowstone’s hot springs, biotechnology revolution was born
Arguably, the most important enzyme ever discovered was found in a bacterium that lived in one of Yellowstone's hot springs ...
Letter to Dr. Oz: ‘Your rebuttal full of logical fallacies’
Dear Dr. Oz, As a TV host, book author, and "America's Doctor," you hold a powerful and privileged position to ...
Costco scares consumers about GM, yet most of its products contain GMOs
Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...
Future of biotechnology, scientific research threatened by pro-organic misinformation campaigns
The organic food market is estimated at $63 billion globally, with more than half of those sales occuring in the United States ...
Genes matter: People marry mates with similar DNA but different immune systems
DNA research suggests that the adage that opposites attract is off base when it comes to marriage. Humans pick spouses ...
Genes may make the musician
A team of researchers has identified multiple genes linked to musical aptitude, providing further evidence that musical ability is heritable ...
30,000 year-old virus revived
As a general rule-of-thumb, eukaryotic cells (e.g., amoebae or human body cells) are about 1,000 times bigger than bacteria, and ...
Desire changes everything, and it’s genetic
Fairbanks, Alaska native Lance Mackey knew all about performance sled dogs, and nursed a burning desire to breed and race ...
Male or female? Why a cell’s sex matters
It may surprise you to learn that -- like humans -- cells can be male or female. The distinction is ...
How does Human saliva compare to a Chimp’s?
Humans (genus Homo) and chimpanzees and bonobos (genus Pan) share roughly 99% of their DNA. But that doesn't necessarily mean we share the same ...
Why do microbes kill some people but not others?
Why do some horrible infectious diseases kill an unlucky few and ignore millions of others? Perhaps the most infamous example ...
A sperm bank for honeybees
There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees. Entomologist ...
‘Three-parent’ embryos: US should follow UK’s example and prepare for approval
The UK recently announced plans to approve "three parent" IVF techniques and both the United States and European Union should ...
Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto is the Devil Incarnate, a ruthless corporation hell bent upon forcing their unnatural ...
Newton’s Law: If an apple hits you on the head it can rewire your genetic circuitry, creating a savant
Getting smacked in the head is no picnic, as most football players, hockey players, and boxers would attest. Debilitating side ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
