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Ask a geneticist: Race and IQ?
This Q&A with a geneticist offers a crash-course in genetics, race, and intelligence for the curious layperson ...
Synthetic biologist explores the meaning of making life
The following is an excerpt. Christina Agapakis is a rising star among the new generation of biology researchers. Trained in ...
Eating organic food associated with longer lives (in flies)
The following is an edited excerpt. In a new study at Southern Methodist University, researchers raised fruit flies on extracts of ...
Why rich Americans should drop their war on GM foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Upper crust grocery stores like Whole Foods are taking a moral stand against genetically ...
The Supreme Court sees the future: 90-minute DNA matches, and less crime
The following is an edited excerpt. "I think this is perhaps the most important criminal procedure case that this Court ...
Human enhancement could turn soldiers into weapons that violate international law
Memory-erasing drugs to ward off PTSD; co-opting the physiology of dolphins and sled-dogs to work all week without sleep few ...
2013: Year of the stem cell
Researchers have already safely injected stem cells into patients with neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries -- and they've seen ...
Hacking the President’s DNA
The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, ...
Synthesizing life means faster cures, biologist says
A leader in the field of synthetic biology, J. Craig Venter considers himself an optimist, but he can see the ...
Radical life extension is already here, but we’re doing it wrong
Over the past twenty years, biologists have begun to set their sights on the aging process itself, in part by ...
Do genes really augur your future?
For some people, genes are key to predicting our future health. For others, genes as crystal balls are overhyped. Let's ...
Superweeds: A long-predicted problem for GM crops has arrived
I was a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee when the agency approved production of genetically modified foods in ...
The upside of Frankenfood: Can GM crops reduce global food insecurity?
Last month, when I summarized the views of Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard, on ...
The perfect milk machine: How big data transformed the dairy industry
Dairy scientists are the Gregor Mendels of the genomics age, developing new methods for understanding the link between genes and ...
