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Does your dog have what it takes to be a hero?

Katherine Wu | Smithsonian | 
[I]n the journal Learning and Behavior, scientists report that the dogs most likely to come to the aid of their owners are those ...
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Authenticity of Romanov remains confirmed through DNA analysis

Brigit Katz | Smithsonian | 
Today [July 17] marks the 100th anniversary of the execution of Nicholas II and his family, an event that toppled ...
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Thinking like mom: Fatherhood makes male brains more maternal

Katherine Wu | Smithsonian | 
The amount of time bat-eared fox fathers spend monitoring their young is an even bigger predictor of pup survival than maternal investment ...
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Nimble human fingers evolved to smash animal bones in search for marrow

Meilan Solly | Smithsonian | 
Scientists have long linked the evolution of the human hand—unique for its lengthy opposable thumbs and dexterous fingers—to the rise ...
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Pandemic prevention: Researchers find bats with new virus that could spread to humans

Katherine Wu | Smithsonian | 
To prevent the next pandemic, pinpoint it at the source. That’s the idea behind PREDICT, a global surveillance program that has ...
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‘Evolution of hugeness’: Massive dinosaurs appeared more than once in earth’s history

Brian Switek | Smithsonian | 
[T]he remains of an unusually-large-for-its-time dinosaur found in Argentina provides new insight into the evolution of hugeness—and suggest that the ...
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Smarter than we thought: Neanderthals hunted in groups, ancient deer skeletons show

Lorraine Boissoneault | Smithsonian | 
A group of Neanderthals used their hand-crafted wooden spears to kill two male fallow deer, both in the prime of ...
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Jurassic Park showed how ‘science and science fiction can collide in the real world’

Lorraine Boissoneault | Smithsonian | 
The prestigious science journal Nature published [a] breathtaking new discovery [about the oldest DNA ever recovered] in June 1993, a single day before ...
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Viewpoint: Why you shouldn’t clone your dog: Costs ‘go far beyond money’

Jacob Brogan | Smithsonian | 
If you spend enough time reading about pet cloning, you’ll see that adjective come up over and over again: beloved ...
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Herpes is rampant but there’s no vaccine in sight. Is it next on the gene editing cure list?

Becky Little | Smithsonian | 
The fact is, almost everyone has herpes. Just so we’re defining our terms, genital herpes refers to the incredibly common ...
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Tracing human evolution through the foods we eat

Brian Handwerk | Smithsonian | 
You aren’t what you eat, exactly. But over many generations, what we eat does shape our evolutionary path. “Diet,” says ...
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‘Jean editing’: Genetically engineered bacteria could reduce denim’s environmental impact

Emily Matchar | Smithsonian | 
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are trying to make the process of making blue jeans greener, by engineering ...
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Should you test your baby for genetic disease risks at birth?

Sarah Richards | Smithsonian | 
Before Cheryl Connolly gave birth to her first child, Loudon, she ran through the checklist of all the things expecting ...
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Your DNA may have been altered by childhood stress and traumas

Lorena Lara | Smithsonian | 
[W]e’re finding out that our DNA isn’t always set in stone. Now, a team of researchers from Northwestern University led ...
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Genetically engineered coral might bring bleached coral reefs back to life

Kyle Frischkorn | Smithsonian | 
A coral reef takes thousands of years to build, yet can vanish in an instant. The culprit is usually coral ...
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‘Abortion pill’: How it works

Becky Little | Smithsonian | 
While abortion is still legal, many states have since passed laws that restrict access to abortion to varying degrees...Now some ...
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Evidence of ancient cancer case found in fossil on storage shelf in Panama City

Jackson Landers | Smithsonian | 
[O]ne day Nicole Smith-Guzmán, a bioarchaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) opened the box and ...
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From kale to cows: Modern supermarket full of foods genetically modified by humans

David Newland | Smithsonian | 
Here are just a few of the modern supermarket offerings that we have been genetically modifying for centuries: Cow and ...
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Smartphone app diagnoses genetic diseases with a snapshot

Nathan Hurst | Smithsonian | 
[When Omar Abdul-Rahman, a clinical geneticist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, had to provide a diagnosis for a young ...
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‘Living bandage’ may revolutionize repair of difficult knee injuries

Maya Wei-Haas | Smithsonian | 
Anthony Hollander, the head of the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool...and his team have finally completed ...

How gene-swapping microbes helped humans evolve

Ed Yong | Smithsonian | 
Bacteria have been carrying out these horizontal gene transfers, or HGT for short, for billions of years. But it wasn’t ...
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What can skin color tell us about ancestry?

Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The DNA of all ...
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Lumosity app’s ‘brain-training’ games under attack for false advertising

Marissa Fessenden | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What if a few ...

Hungry? That might be the microbes talking

Brian Handwerk | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hear that little voice ...
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MRI of mother and child captures biggest questions in neuroscience

Rebecca Saxe | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mother and her ...

Ancient tooth’s DNA adds Denisovians to human family tree

Danny Lewis | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. DNA extracted from a ...
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DNA replica of Van Gogh’s ear now on display in New York

Erin Blakemore | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Vincent van Gogh's ear is ...

Organic and conventional farmer walk into a bar…

Carrie Arnold | Smithsonian | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People are becoming less ...
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