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Indigenous peoples seek to become partners, not guinea pigs in genetics research
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Lauren Cowley arrived ...
Ebola poses major threat to chimpanzee survival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The most recent Ebola ...
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 ...
