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Population genomics can help identify genes underlying rare diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Let’s say you have ...
When robots hallucinate: Google’s ‘dream up’ acid trip resembles human hallucinations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a collection of ...
Unicycling and Rubik’s Cube-solving: Psychology behind breaking obscure world records
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In August, Stuart Sobeske, ...
Are psychology studies reliable? Many science studies not reproducible
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one is entirely ...
Could 3-D printing technology transform drug industry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past decade, ...
Devious defecating: How ‘mystery pooper’ case launched debate on genetic privacy
A recent lawsuit decided in U.S. district court in Atlanta, in which the case of a mystery pooper has real ...
‘Night vision’ biohack exposes failings of media hype
In March, Gabriel Licina pinned his eyes open and had his friend, Jeffrey Tibbetts, place several drops of a carefully ...
Atlantic latest liberal publication to oppose mandatory GMO labeling
On Thursday, July 23, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban states from requiring special labels ...
Breast reconstruction surgery receiving boost from stem cell technique
It’s hard to pin down exactly how many people get mastectomies in the United States. According to the Journal of the ...
Mini ‘placenta-on-a-chip’ gives closer look at mysterious organ
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created a “placenta-on-a-chip,” a miniature device that uses actual human cells to ...
Prosthetics industry turns from aesthetics to functionality
When Elizabeth Wright smacks her right leg on a table, she says “ow.” That’s only interesting if you know one ...
Brain disorder impedes navigation by preventing internal ‘map’
Even though she hates lawn ornaments, Sharon Roseman, 68, has a grinning, pink lobster outside her home in Highlands Ranch, ...
Can science risk tolerating the alternative medicine world of Oz?
The Dr. Oz Show provides critics with ample material: séances, energy healing, miracle diet products. Once a media darling, Oz ...
FDA uses genome sequencing to combat food-borne illnesses
Last week, two companies issued national recalls of their products due to listeria contamination. For Sabra Dipping Company, which is recalling ...
Racial health differences caused by society, not genetics
It is no secret that a longer life is a white privilege in the U.S. In 2011, the Centers for ...
For AI to succeed, computers need to think more like humans
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned. Finally ...
Why do so many Americans fear Ebola, but reject vaccines?
Sitting and talking about the 10,000 people so-far killed by Ebola hemorrhagic fever in West Africa, it's easy to feel ...
Injury-prone? Your genes might explain why
Injury is a fact of life for most athletes, but some professionals—and some weekend warriors, for that matter—just seem more ...
How Food Babe mobilized an army against GMOs and chemicals
Over the past three years, Vani Hari has rapidly become one of the most popular voices on nutrition in mainstream ...
What does genome testing mean for questions of Native American ancestry?
The genetic sequencing company 23andMe recently tapped into its vast bank of data to release a study on genetic origins, ...
How the bioengineered uterus is transforming surrogacy and childbirth
When I suffered my third consecutive miscarriage this past May, my mom said she wanted to help me out however ...
What world has learned about limits of science and medicine from Ebola epidemic
People in affected communities were understandably fearful; some were distrustful of health workers and resisted going to treatment centers, where ...
DNA structure co-discoverer James Watson to sell Nobel Prize amid backlash against racial remarks
James Watson, the famed molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA, is putting his Nobel Prize up for auction. This sad ...
Babies’ DNA lingers in mom after birth, may offer health boost
In pregnancy, women are shape-shifters, their bellies waxing like the moon. After delivery, they hold another kind of magic: microchimerism, ...
As 60 becomes new definition of middle-aged, how is human society changing?
For millennia, if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human origin—life expectancy was short. The few people ...
Human ‘angry face’ knows no cultural divide, rooted in DNA
In the U.S., the thumbs-up is typically a gesture that everything’s just hunky-dory—but in the Middle East, it implies that ...
Female athlete teaches herself genetics, cracks her own rare disease
Kim Goodsell was running along a mountain trail when her left ankle began turning inward, unbidden. A few weeks later ...
How data mining targets pregnant mothers
For me, like most potential parents, the first test I took was not genetic. Instead it was a simple pregnancy ...
