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Cancer patient’s ‘spontaneous remission’—not her diet—will be included in Harvard study

Ed Cara | 
Over the past few weeks, multiple media outlets have written about Kathy Bero, a 54-year-old woman who claims her breast cancer 12 years ago ...
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17,000-year-old route to North America could redefine human migration history

George Dvorsky | 
The first people to cross into North America from Eurasia did so by traveling through the Bering Strait, or so ...
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Astronomical cycles may have influenced animal evolution on Earth

Ryan Mandelbaum | 
A team of researchers from the United States and New Zealand took a look at how likely species were to ...
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Viewpoint: I know my skin better than a ‘DNA-optimized’ skincare routine does

Kristen Brown | 
LifeDNA purports to take your DNA data from companies like 23andMe, and, relying on findings from “over 1,100 peer-reviewed studies,” ...
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Does birth control affect who women are attracted to?

Ed Cara | 
A commonly touted theory about how women’s attraction to men works might be all wrong, suggests a new paper published this week ...
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DNA health and and ancestry test for pets? Why would you want to do that?

Kristen Brown | 
The market for at-home DNA tests has exploded. Curious to find out about their ancestry, risk of disease, diet, and athletic ...
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Writer agrees to be biohacked. Now she wonders if it was worth it

Kristen Brown | 
Grinders are hackers, but the hardware they aim to hack is the human body. They are transhumanist in the most ...
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Neanderthals’ brains may have doomed them to extinction

George Dvorsky | 
Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to date, offering new ...
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Quest to figure out why our hair turns gray yields new answer

Ed Cara | 
Scientists think they’ve stumbled upon a newly discovered mechanism that could explain why some people’s hair turns gray and others ...
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44 genetic variants linked to depression — and we may all carry some of them

Kristen Brown | 
Depression is a tricky beast. Symptoms vary widely from person to person, as does the response to treatment. But there’s no ...
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The ambitious effort to sequence the DNA of earth’s 1.5 million animals, plants and fungi

Kristen Brown | 
In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of researchers is organizing ...
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How artificial intelligence could push us closer to nuclear war

George Dvorksy | 
As AI slowly erodes the foundations that made the Cold War possible, we may find ourselves hurtling towards all-out nuclear ...
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AI personhood? European Parliament under fire for proposing recognizing legal status of robots

George Dvorsky | 
Over 150 experts in AI, robotics, commerce, law, and ethics from 14 countries have signed an open letter denouncing the ...
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Night owls more likely to eat poorly, use drugs, die earlier

Ed Cara | 
Night owls may be more fun at parties, but a preference for staying out late may come with some serious ...
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Viewpoint: Precision medicine based on white populations could ‘reinforce existing societal and economic inequalities’

Kristen Brown | 
Sequencing the human genome has shown us that we are mostly all made up of the same stuff, but it’s ...
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Discovery of ancient finger in Saudi Arabia suggests humans left Africa 20,000 years earlier than assumed

George Dvorsky | 
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil ...
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Why humans and Neanderthals look so different

George Dvorsky | 
Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had heavy eyebrows, huge noses, and large, long faces that bulged forward. Using 3D computer ...
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Could LSD treat schizophrenia and depression?

Ed Cara | 
A small new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience seems to offer some insight into what’s happening in the brain while we’re on ...
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75% of transgender women report ‘positive changes in their life satisfaction’ after surgery

Ed Cara | 
While many transgender people opt for gender-affirming surgeries, little research has been done to examine how such operations may affect ...
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Possible breakthrough in one-a-day male birth control pill?

Ed Cara | 
One of the latest experimental candidates for a male birth control drug is a compound that would be taken much ...
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