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Bitter dark chocolate appears to slow the aging process
The same chemical that makes dark chocolate taste bitter could help slow the ticking of your biological clock. A new ...
Will ‘neophobia’ kill the newly-developed gene-edited, non-browning banana
When a banana is bruised, cut, or peeled, enzymes trigger a chemical cascade that ends in melanin, the same pigment ...
Dump BMI? Where fat is stored in the body may matter more than how much there is overall
At first glance, a BMI chart seems pretty straightforward. But researchers are discovering that where fat is stored in the ...
Face science: Here’s why human faces look so different from our extinct Neanderthal cousins and chimpanzees, or primate relatives
In a new study, researchers have uncovered a fundamental difference in how human faces grow compared to those of our ...
Worried about having a blind dog? Now there is a genetic screening for inherited disease
A DNA test could uncover a genetic mutation that causes blindness and eliminate progressive retinal atrophy in dogs ...
Supercharged sugarcane: How CRISPR gene-editing angles of leaves optimizes photosynthesis and boosts crop yields nearly 20%
In a new study, researchers used the genetic scissors CRISPR/Cas9 system to tweak the leaf angle in sugarcane, enabling the ...
Why gene editing could slingshot cell-based meat to economic viability
A shocking report from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that cultivated meat could reduce emissions by 96 percent. However, currently, the ...
What caused the Habsburg royal family’s jaw deformity? Blame inbreeding
Today, the Habsburgs are all but forgotten from mainstream public consciousness, apart from one notable feature: the famous Habsburg Jaw ...
Rice paddies in the desert? How China is creating productive farmland and growing ‘seawater rice’ using heat-tolerant biotech crops
In a bid to finally ensure that nobody ever needs to go hungry in China again, researchers there have been ...
How chewing may have shaped human evolution
About 10% of the calories consumed over the course of the day are expended on digesting, absorbing, metabolizing, and eliminating ...
Challenging decades of demonization, LSD appears to improve human cognition
Researchers grew tiny brain tissue in their lab, which they exposed to solutions containing the powerful psychedelic drug LSD. Under ...
Ant colonies function like giant human brains
Ants combine sensory information about their environment with parameters of their colony to arrive at a group response. Most interestingly ...
If Artificial Intelligence bots reflect the biases of their creators, will some turn out to be racist?
In a new study, a robot operating on CLIP was asked to sort blocks with human faces on them and ...
Love organic sweet Ruby Red grapefruits? Did you know it’s one of thousands of plants developed by shooting gamma rays at seeds?
You may be amazed to hear that some of the ‘natural’ foodstuffs you eat today may have also originated from ...
Can chocolate really kill dogs?
Unlike cats, which lack the ability to taste sweetness, dogs find chocolate just as appealing as humans. But while the ...
Evolution doesn’t stop: Hundreds of new traits have developed in humans in recent centuries
A new study from Europe has identified 755 traits that have changed in the past 2-3,000 years of human evolution ...
Kenyan scientists deploy CRISPR to protect bananas from diseases threatening to wipe out the world’s most popular variety
All the cultivated banana varieties are susceptible to diseases — and Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is particularly problematic. BXW is ...
A parasite is targeting bananas crops around the world — but African scientists are using CRISPR to stop it
All the cultivated banana varieties are susceptible to diseases — and Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is particularly problematic. BXW is ...
Will artificial wombs usher in a new era of gender equality?
Imagine a world where it’s possible to produce children without placing any burden on women — an empowered society where ...
The US military has polluted 25 million acres of prairie grass-filled land used for target practice. Now there is a GMO solution to detoxify it
Genetically modified (GM) switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) can be used to purge soils of RDX residues, according to new research. RDX ...
Worried that GMO seeds are bred in a lab? They’re not as unnatural as you think. 1 in 20 plants are naturally transgenic
Genetic modification is a process that sometimes happens naturally at the hands of bacteria, a new study concludes. Dozens of ...
‘Scorching ethical debate’: Designer babies are already here. The future looks even more revolutionary — and contentious
In one sense, genetically modifying a child with particular traits is already done on a fairly large scale. Couples with ...
How dangerous is a lack of sleep?
Whether sleep deprivation can kill is somewhat debatable. That’s because people who forgo sleep for extended periods of time may ...
Thank India and Pakistan for dairy. They’ve been producing milk and cheese since 2500 BC
The lands that make up modern-day Pakistan and India have been producing dairy for almost five thousand years now, according ...
Everything you should know about colony collapse disorder and ‘disappearing’ bee populations
During the winter of 2006-2007, beekeepers around the country began reporting unusually high losses of their hives. Between 30 percent ...
UK experiencing ‘widespread’ decline of insect pollinators, new study claims
Great Britain is in great trouble....it’s running out of pollinators. The Center for Ecology & Hydrology measured the presence of ...
‘Rice 2.0’: GMO grain could neutralize HIV virus before it does any harm
An international team of researchers .... plans to fight HIV using only cereal; namely, rice. In a new paper, they ...
Viewpoint: Humans have been ‘genetically modifying’ food for thousands of years
Genes are bits of DNA which determine all sorts of traits and characteristics in any organism, from size to what ...
