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Does your dog have what it takes to be a hero?
[I]n the journal Learning and Behavior, scientists report that the dogs most likely to come to the aid of their owners are those ...
Authenticity of Romanov remains confirmed through DNA analysis
Today [July 17] marks the 100th anniversary of the execution of Nicholas II and his family, an event that toppled ...
Thinking like mom: Fatherhood makes male brains more maternal
The amount of time bat-eared fox fathers spend monitoring their young is an even bigger predictor of pup survival than maternal investment ...
Nimble human fingers evolved to smash animal bones in search for marrow
Scientists have long linked the evolution of the human hand—unique for its lengthy opposable thumbs and dexterous fingers—to the rise ...
Pandemic prevention: Researchers find bats with new virus that could spread to humans
To prevent the next pandemic, pinpoint it at the source. That’s the idea behind PREDICT, a global surveillance program that has ...
‘Evolution of hugeness’: Massive dinosaurs appeared more than once in earth’s history
[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 ...
Smarter than we thought: Neanderthals hunted in groups, ancient deer skeletons show
A group of Neanderthals used their hand-crafted wooden spears to kill two male fallow deer, both in the prime of ...
Jurassic Park showed how ‘science and science fiction can collide in the real world’
The prestigious science journal Nature published [a] breathtaking new discovery [about the oldest DNA ever recovered] in June 1993, a single day before ...
Viewpoint: Why you shouldn’t clone your dog: Costs ‘go far beyond money’
If you spend enough time reading about pet cloning, you’ll see that adjective come up over and over again: beloved ...
Herpes is rampant but there’s no vaccine in sight. Is it next on the gene editing cure list?
The fact is, almost everyone has herpes. Just so we’re defining our terms, genital herpes refers to the incredibly common ...
Tracing human evolution through the foods we eat
You aren’t what you eat, exactly. But over many generations, what we eat does shape our evolutionary path. “Diet,” says ...
‘Jean editing’: Genetically engineered bacteria could reduce denim’s environmental impact
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are trying to make the process of making blue jeans greener, by engineering ...
Should you test your baby for genetic disease risks at birth?
Before Cheryl Connolly gave birth to her first child, Loudon, she ran through the checklist of all the things expecting ...
Your DNA may have been altered by childhood stress and traumas
[W]e’re finding out that our DNA isn’t always set in stone. Now, a team of researchers from Northwestern University led ...
Genetically engineered coral might bring bleached coral reefs back to life
A coral reef takes thousands of years to build, yet can vanish in an instant. The culprit is usually coral ...
‘Abortion pill’: How it works
While abortion is still legal, many states have since passed laws that restrict access to abortion to varying degrees...Now some ...
Evidence of ancient cancer case found in fossil on storage shelf in Panama City
[O]ne day Nicole Smith-Guzmán, a bioarchaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) opened the box and ...
From kale to cows: Modern supermarket full of foods genetically modified by humans
Here are just a few of the modern supermarket offerings that we have been genetically modifying for centuries: Cow and ...
Smartphone app diagnoses genetic diseases with a snapshot
[When Omar Abdul-Rahman, a clinical geneticist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, had to provide a diagnosis for a young ...
‘Living bandage’ may revolutionize repair of difficult knee injuries
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
Bacteria have been carrying out these horizontal gene transfers, or HGT for short, for billions of years. But it wasn’t ...
What can skin color tell us about ancestry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The DNA of all ...
Lumosity app’s ‘brain-training’ games under attack for false advertising
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
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hear that little voice ...
MRI of mother and child captures biggest questions in neuroscience
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
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. DNA extracted from a ...
DNA replica of Van Gogh’s ear now on display in New York
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…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. People are becoming less ...