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Iceland’s population proves invaluable to genetic research
The journal Nature Genetics released a set of four papers based entirely on the genetic sequences of Icelanders. Their results, which ...
Doomed mammoth-cloning attempt foiled by cosmic rays
Hwang Woo-Suk is the bad boy of genetics. He’s most famous for falsely claiming to have cloned human stem cells ...
Lucky fourth leaf: Mutation in clover DNA still a mystery
So you lost your job and your life’s a mess. You’re fat, you’re broke, you’re bad at sex. You’re looking at ...
Nex-gen technologies expand sequencing options for doctors
Genetic data has gone the way of fast food: It's cheap, speedy, and widely available. And that's a good thing, ...
Do people trust ‘hard’ neuroscience more than ‘soft’ psychology?
Imagine a politician from your party is in trouble for alleged misdemeanors. He’s been assessed by an expert who says ...
Union of Concerned Scientists join criticism of anti-GMO activist ‘attack’ on university researchers
The legal attack hit Kevin Folta in early February. After receiving a FOIA request from U.S. Right to Know—a nonprofit ...
Will next generation of herbicide-resistant crops cause more problems?
The latest in a new generation of genetically engineered crops is poised to enter widespread use—and critics think they'll cause ...
What Charles Darwin got wrong
It’s hard to overstate just how brilliant and huge an idea Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was ...
Antibiotic resistance may be bigger problem than previously thought
A project commissioned by the British government has released estimates of the near-future global toll of antibiotic resistance that are ...
Google’s Cloud searching for genetic causes of autism
Google has spent the past decade-and-a-half perfecting the science of recognizing patterns in the chaos of information on the web ...
Robot working hard to recreate origin of life
A cheap 3D-printed robot and a PlayStation camera are hard at work trying to find the origins of life. But ...
DNA test that tells identical twins apart to be used in forensic testing
In 2004, two young women were abducted at gunpoint while walking home near Boston at night. The crimes happened eight ...
Teens’ brains: Social processing fails when they hear mom’s criticism
We all know that teen-parent relations can be a tricky business. Now neuroscientists from several leading US universities think they’ve ...
How much does the public actually care about brain science?
It feels to me like interest in the brain has exploded. I’ve seen huge investments in brain science by the ...
What goes into the flu vaccine?
All flu vaccines start with flu viruses: genetic material packaged in an envelope of proteins and fats, studded with yet ...
Theater production broaches psychiatric health in modern life
City dwellers live life at a maddening pace. And while the urban jungle lets us experience incredible highs, its chaos ...
Re-enacting history of evolution in the laboratory
In his fourth-floor lab at Harvard University, Michael Desai has created hundreds of identical worlds in order to watch evolution ...
A new kind of sex? Strange micro-organism makes imperfect clones of itself
Oxytricha trifallax lives in ponds all over the world. Under an electron microscope it looks like a football adorned with tassels ...
Can ‘Big Data’ help sidestep the controversy over GMOs and the future of food
Inside a squat building on San Francisco’s 10th Street, packed into a space that looks a lot like a high ...
IBM chip mimics brain, marks advancement in artificial intelligence
The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer capable of learning new things on the fly, using very little ...
Predicting behavior based on our genes just got more complicated
How can we predict organisms behavior and physiology from their genomes? The language of DNA was always thought to be ...
Pre-natal neuron disorganization may cause autism
Nobody knows what causes autism, a condition that varies so widely in severity that some people on the spectrum achieve ...
DNA and the masses: Genetics as identity
You can have your DNA sequenced faster, easier and more completely than ever before. ln light of these advances, it's ...
Memory — not perception — might be key to dyslexia
If auditory processing is at the core of the frustrating disorder dyslexia, then dyslexic musicians shouldn't exist. But they do ...
New bionic hand includes a sense of touch
Sensory feedback is what will turn future prostheses from tools into hands; a breakthrough bionic hand represents a first step ...
Computational drug discovery technique targets microRNAs using genome sequencing
A team of chemists has developed a new computational drug discovery technique that targets microRNAs using genome sequencing. To demonstrate ...
Overclocking your brain? Be careful
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) head-sets send electrical currents straight through your skull and into your brain, but do they ...
Monsanto’s kitchen: All the advantages of genetic modification without the Frankenfood ick factor
The company whose name is synonymous with Big Ag has revolutionized the way we grow food—for better or worse. Now, ...
