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Do assumptions about race in genetics research promote the Alt-Right agenda?
[On the Internet, there are] pages after pages of Stormfront discussions on the reliability of 23andMe ancestry results and whether ...
Fertilizers helped food keep pace with population growth but with Faustian bargain?
Most people don’t think about fertilizer, but few innovations are as central to modern life. In the 20th century, manmade ...
Future of Alzheimer’s treatment? Flickering lights
[If neurons fire] 30 to 90 times [in a single second], that’s a gamma wave, which has been linked to ...
Your brain uses different regions to remember something clearly and vividly
In an elegant experiment, a team of neuroscientists led by Jon Simons at the University of Cambridge have shown that ...
Chinese use CRISPR to breed hairier cashmere goats
In China, the world’s top producer of cashmere, scientists have been trying to breed more productive cashmere goats. They’ve now ...
Sources of inherited diseases may emerge with map of complex gene interactions
In yeast, only one in five genes is essential...however, if a pair of nonessential genes is removed—sometimes, death comes quickly ...
Bipolar disorder’s biological basis, how lithium works as treatment
[O]ver the years, lithium has remained a standby treatment [for bipolar disorder]. “It’s still arguably one of the best medications,” ...
Genetic autopsies offer more questions than answers for grieving families
[S]equencing DNA has become orders of magnitude cheaper and more sophisticated. With medical examiners considering DNA tests as part of ...
Genes linked with schooling does not mean they affect education directly
[I]n a study of almost 294,000 people, an international team led by Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, and Philipp Koellinger has ...
What Mr. X’s struggles with hemispatial neglect reveals about human consciousness
When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, I met a man I’ll call Mr. X, who had recently ...
CRISPR opens door to new generation of more nutritious and delicious fruits and vegetables
A few weeks ago, Stefan Jansson, a Swedish plant biologist, sat down to a plate of pasta with cabbage harvested from his ...
Will evolution eventually undo effects on ecosystem of gene drives?
[A]t New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory[,] Philipp Messer...took the stage to discuss a powerful and controversial new application for genetic ...
Video: Scientists film bacteria evolving antibiotic resistance in real time
Ever since the invention of antibiotics, we have been fighting an escalating arms race against bacteria for several decades. Michael ...
Lichens formed through symbiosis among three organisms, not two
Lichens have an important place in biology. . . . they’re composite organisms, consisting of fungi that live in partnership ...
Piecing together how Lucy, world’s most famous fossil, perished
In 1974, scientists working in Ethiopia uncovered an extraordinary female skeleton, whom they called Lucy. She was 3.2 million years ...
Uses for DNA may spread to far-flung fields like archaeology and fine arts
In the past couple of decades, genetics has revolutionized fields such as...medicine. In the next couple, expect DNA to turn ...
Future of regenerative medicine may be making human tissue from fruits
In the high-ceilinged basement lab, the ear lies flat, encapsulated in a dish on a sheet-metal cabinet. It’s actually a ...
Sanders’, activists’ anti-corporate views on GMOs ‘obscuring a level-headed approach’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Why is information on tumor-causing genes hard for patients to access?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the world of ...
Can precision medicine eliminate racial info gaps in health?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Race and medicine have ...
Is it incorrect to consider brain akin to computer?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human brain contains ...
Fruit fly’s enormous sperm appears to defy biology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 1995, Scott Pitnick ...
Evidence from French cave suggests Neanderthals more sophisticated than previously believed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In February 1990, thanks ...
Common genetic risk links autism, epilepsy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers observed decades ago ...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria could kill 10 million every year by 2050
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Under instructions from U.K ...
What makes your gut microbiome special?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are tens of ...
Portable DNA sequencer could keep astronauts healthy in space
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Aboard the International Space ...
Can GM mosquitoes move past public’s fear of gene editing and play role in eliminating Zika?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. History is filthy with ...
