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Dementia’s ‘biological weak spot’: A single mutation helped this woman evade Alzheimer’s for decades

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
A cruel twist of genetic fate brought Alzheimer’s disease to a sprawling Colombian family. But thanks to a second twist, ...
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Dangers of CAR-T treatments linked to ‘particularily messy’ method of killing tumors

Erin Garcia de Jesus | Science News | 
Techniques to genetically modify patient immune cells have revolutionized the fight against hard-to-treat cancers. But they can come with dangerous ...
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Why infected patients should be put on multidrug cocktails to head off antibiotic tolerance and resistance

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Infectious bacteria that are down but not quite dead yet may be more dangerous than previously thought. Even as one ...
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Does the pill cause depression? Why its too soon to be worried

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
“Does the pill cause depression?” the news headline asked. Prompted by a recent study that described a link between taking birth ...
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Single dose of ketamine could weaken the desire to drink beer

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
A single dose of ketamine may cut down problematic drinking. Taken in the right context, the hallucinogenic drug may be able ...
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Can we take AI to the next level by building robots that fear for their own safety?

Tom Siegfried | Science News | 
There might be a way, though, to give robots feelings, say neuroscientists Kingson Man and Antonio Damasio. Simply build the ...
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‘Self-eating’ mitochondria may make the brain vulnerable to Lou Gehrig’s disease

Tina Saey | Science News | 
A newly discovered type of mitochondrial self-destruction may make some brain cells vulnerable to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s ...
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Tree planting can help slow global warming, but it’s no panacea, climate experts say

Susan Milius | Science News | 
.... There’s room to plant enough trees, albeit many, many, many trees, to counter a big chunk of the planet-warming ...
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‘Game changer’ for genetic privacy: Court forces GEDmatch to open its million-person genealogy database to police scrutiny

Cassie Martin | Science News | 
A Florida state judge has reportedly allowed police to search the entirety of the public genealogy website GEDmatch — home ...
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Clues for predicting premature birth risk may be found in mother’s immune system, microbiome

Amanda Keener | Science News | 
For decades, researchers and clinicians have sought ways to predict and prevent preterm birth with little progress to show for ...
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Measles wreaks havoc on body’s immune system, making it susceptible to other infections, study shows

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Measles wages war on cells of the immune system. Now two tallies of the carnage, described in the Nov. 1 Science and Science ...
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Potential problem with lab-grown mini-brains: They’re ‘stressed-out and confused’

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Brain cells grown into clumps in flasks are totally stressed-out and confused. Cells in these clumps have ambiguous identities and ...
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Breast cancer drug may offer a precision treatment for aggressive prostate cancer tumors

Sofie Bates | Science News | 
A drug used to treat breast and ovarian cancers tied to certain genetic mutations may help combat some of the ...
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How can ‘water bears’ survive in outer space? ‘Fluffy cloud’ of protein may shield tardigrade DNA

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Tardigrades may partly owe their ability to survive outer space to having the molecular equivalent of cotton candy. Water bears, ...
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Aggression, trainability and other dog traits linked to genetics in study

Jonathan Lambert | Science News | 
Among 101 dog breeds, scientists found that certain behavioral traits such as trainability or aggression were more likely to be shared ...
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Did whales gain the ability to live in the water by shedding genes?

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Like stripping down to swim, the ancestors of whales and dolphins may have shed some genes during their transition from ...
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Soot in the womb: Research suggests air pollution threatens developing babies

Aimee Cunningham | Science News | 
Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a pregnant woman’s lungs, all the way to the womb surrounding ...
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As the ocean heats up, coral reproduction is thrown out of step

Susan Milius | Science News | 
Bad timing for coral sex might be an underappreciated threat of climate change. Spawning is out of sync for at ...
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Increased dementia risk linked to high blood pressure during middle age

Aimee Cunningham | Science News | 
Controlling high blood pressure during middle age may help stave off dementia later in life. In a long-term study, researchers ...
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Alzheimer’s disease and drowsiness: Link could help us determine where the disease first attacks the brain

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Alzheimer’s disease destroys command centers in the brain that keep people awake. That finding could explain why the disease often ...
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CRISPR ‘put to the test’ against inherited blindness, blood disease. Next up Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis

Tina Saey | Science News | 
Since its debut in 2012, CRISPR gene editing has held the promise of curing most of the over 6,000 known ...
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What makes us human? These pieces of donated brain tissue may offer answers

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
Half an hour earlier, this piece of neural tissue was tucked inside a 41-year-old woman’s head, on her left side, ...
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Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago

Tina Saey | Science News | 
No one should have to sleep with the fishes, but new research on zebrafish suggests that we sleep like them.  ...
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Gut microbes may offer performance boost for elite athletes

Carolyn Wilke | Science News | 
One difference between elite athletes and the rest of us might be in what hangs out in their guts. Microbes ...
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Consumer genetic testing firms may not be able to block police access to data

Tina Saey | Science News | 
The GEDMatch decision to give police access to its data in the assault case — made without informing the database’s ...
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Were hominids making stone tools 2.6 million years ago? Controversy greets discovery

Bruce Bower | Science News | 
Discoveries in East Africa of what may be the oldest expertly sharpened stone implements suggest that early members of the ...
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Does our gut bacteria alter the effectiveness of drug treatments?

Maria Temming | Science News | 
Prescribing the best medication may require going with a patient’s gut — or at least, the bacteria that live there ...
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‘Immune amnesia’: Why measles makes you more vulnerable to infections that cause pneumonia, ear infections, diarrhea

Laura Sanders | Science News | 
The most iconic thing about measles is the rash — red, livid splotches that make infection painfully visible. But that ...
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