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Controversy whether tardigrade product of massive horizontal gene transfer

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team from the ...

What is actually possible with gene editing technologies?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “The unthinkable has become ...

Can CRISPR be made even more precise?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR, the youngest technique ...
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Which of our 25,000 genes matter most?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Humans have between 20,000 ...
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Add tardigrades to list of animals that swap genes with other species…naturally

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have known for ...

Personalized advice for healthy diet more effective than universal guidelines

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Take a slice of ...

Prescription antibiotics alter microbial community in gut

Julie Beck | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Doctors and patients alike ...

Oxytocin not really ‘trust’ hormone after all

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ten years ago, Nature ...

Down syndrome tests don’t account for father’s contribution to risk

Jessica Fenn | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The standard first-trimester screen ...

What is ‘autism spectrum,’ exactly?

Rose Eveleth | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  If I tell people ...

Microbes make strides in cancer treatment

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Few recent developments have ...
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Lundgren whistleblower complaint claims USDA silencing scientists discussing controversial issues

Brandon Keim | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Late last year, Jonathan ...
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Why heart disease still considered “man’s disease?”

Vidhi Doshi | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Heart disease is currently ...

White House mulling microbiome research initiative?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Bacteria and other microbes ...
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International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) is ‘confusogenic to humans”

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The International Agency of Research ...

Why are girls with autism constantly misdiagnosed?

Apoorva Mandavilli | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  It took 10 years, ...

Indigenous peoples seek to become partners, not guinea pigs in genetics research

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The Akimel O’odham (Pima), ...

When did society start loving dinosaurs?

Steve Macone | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  It’s weird we don’t ...

Where did humans get their unique genes from?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The human genome contains ...

What to do when gene test for breast cancer risk comes back uncertain?

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In 2013, U.S. actress ...

Will chronic fatigue syndrome receive attention it deserves?

Olga Khazan | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  This past July, Brian ...

Nobel-winning drugs only part of solution for elephantiasis

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In the 1970s, William ...

Simple gene test can fully prevent devastating skin-peeling condition

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  It starts with a ...

Each one of our brain neurons has unique genetic lineage

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  People talk about an ...

Populations in extreme environments show best of what genome has to offer

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  If I ate an ...

Genome sequencing has revolutionized treatment of rare disorders

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The last two years ...

Was ‘Plague of Athens’ 2,400 years ago actually an Ebola epidemic?

Simon Davis | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In the summer of ...

Mini DNA sequencer helped track spread of Ebola

Ed Yong | Atlantic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  When Lauren Cowley arrived ...
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