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 ...

Ebola poses major threat to chimpanzee survival

Caleb Hellerman | Atlantic |
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

Ed Yong | Atlantic |
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Let’s say you have ...
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When robots hallucinate: Google’s ‘dream up’ acid trip resembles human hallucinations

Adrienne LaFrance | Atlantic |
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  When a collection of ...
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Unicycling and Rubik’s Cube-solving: Psychology behind breaking obscure world records

Cari Romm | Atlantic |
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In August, Stuart Sobeske, ...
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Are psychology studies reliable? Many science studies not reproducible

Ed Yong | Atlantic |
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?

Robinson Meyer | Atlantic |
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Over the past decade, ...
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Devious defecating: How ‘mystery pooper’ case launched debate on genetic privacy

Julie Beck | Atlantic |
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

Rose Eveleth | Atlantic |
In March, Gabriel Licina pinned his eyes open and had his friend, Jeffrey Tibbetts, place several drops of a carefully ...
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Atlantic latest liberal publication to oppose mandatory GMO labeling

James Hamblin | Atlantic |
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

Rose Eveleth | Atlantic |
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

Adrienne LaFrance | Atlantic |
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

Rose Eveleth | Atlantic |
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’

Katherine Foley | Atlantic |
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?

Alan Levinovitz | Atlantic |
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

Bourree Lam | Atlantic |
Last week, two companies issued national recalls of their products due to listeria contamination. For Sabra Dipping Company, which is recalling ...