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Reviving cold cases: DNA Doe Project uses genetic genealogy to solve long-unsolved crimes
Genetic genealogy debuted more than 20 years ago as a pastime for ancestry enthusiasts. The customer sent a saliva sample ...
Here’s why the CDC relaxed its mask policy a week after announcing confusing guidance
For months, federal officials have vigorously warned that wearing masks and social distancing were necessary to contain the pandemic. So ...
‘The most terrifying thing’: For an unlucky few, even mild COVID can lead to psychosis. We still don’t know why
[I]n mid-December, after a mild case of Covid-19, [49-year-old former marine Ivan Agerton] was seized by a kind of psychosis ...
People with compromised immune systems are likeliest evolutionary source of rogue COVID variants
A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month. But this variant, called B.1.1.7, had ...
Endometriosis falls into the abyss of ‘women’s diseases’: Here’s what a pioneering bioengineer is designing to redress that
Dr. [Linda] Griffith founded the [Gynepathology Research] lab in 2009 with the goal of helping researchers solve endometriosis, a chronic ...
‘Alternative proteins doesn’t mean adopting a vegan diet’: A vegan makes the case for the meatless meat revolution
About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions are traceable to the food supply chain. Animal agriculture accounts for about three-quarters of those emissions ...
Viewpoint: ‘Regenerate or die?’ Fashion industry co-opts sustainability buzzwords like ‘regenerative’ and ‘circular’ — but what do they really mean?
The North Face and Patagonia now tout clothing made of regenerative cotton. And Secteur 6, a new Indian-American brand that ...
Can you get COVID after vaccination? Only a handful of cases reported so far
Nearly 83 million Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, and it’s unclear just how many ...
Podcast: Ezra Klein and Walter Isaacson discuss how CRISPR is poised to redirect the future course of evolution
When future generations look back on this moment in history, will they remember the daily political fights — or will ...
Is it safe to use growth hormones to treat unusually short children? Here are the pros and cons
Experts estimate that 60 percent to 80 percent of children who are short for their age do not have a ...
IVF rates are on the rise — and so are disputes over who gets ‘custody’ of frozen embryos when couples separate
Anyone who has been divorced knows the painful process well: disentangling finances, dividing possessions and mapping out custody arrangements for ...
The incredible shrinking heart: Astronaut Scott Kelly’s heart shrunk by ¼ during his year in space, raising concerns about Mars travel
In a study published on [March 29] in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart ...
NDV-HXP-S ‘game changer’: A new low-cost vaccine made in chicken eggs now in clinical trials could change the way we fight COVID
[A new] vaccine, called NDV-HXP-S, is the first in clinical trials to use a new molecular design that is widely ...
Assessing AstraZeneca’s vaccine: Are those who get the shot in danger of blood clots or are governments being overly cautious?
[A] few cases of a rare blood-clotting disorder — some fatal — emerged within the past month or so, [and] ...
Brazil is now the world’s global COVID epicenter. Here is why the country has failed
More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are at their peak and highly contagious variants of the ...
Infographic: COVID variants spreading rapidly throughout the US, stalling post-coronavirus recovery
The country’s vaccine rollout has sped up since the first doses were administered in December, recently reaching a rolling average ...
You’ve survived mild COVID? For many, debilitating symptoms kick in weeks or months later
[A] study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long ...
Workout junkie? Daily high-intensity workouts might be problematic to your health
Consisting of repeated, brief spurts of hard exercise interspersed with a few minutes of rest, [high-intensity interval training, or] HIIT ...
Many long-term care workers resist COVID vaccinations. Can they be mandated?
It’s a question that many long-term care employers, from individual families to big national companies, are confronting as vaccines become ...
Psychedelic mushrooms in your future? Oregon edges closer to becoming first state to license therapeutic use
Oregon is about to become the first state in the country to try to build a support infrastructure through which ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
COVID can ravage our sense of smell. It’s also sparking research on the sense we often take for granted
Smell is a startling superpower. You can walk through someone’s front door and instantly know that she recently made popcorn ...
Why so many people in the LGBTQ community are vaccine hesitant
Research has shown that sexual and gender minorities, and especially people of color, are more vulnerable to becoming infected with ...
Cancer and cocktails? Physician groups urge that alcohol should carry a warning label
In recent years, a growing number of medical and public health groups have introduced public awareness campaigns warning people to ...
When it comes to COVID, identical doesn’t always mean the same: Twins got COVID together but their illnesses followed different trajectories
Early last spring, [twin] sisters from Rochester, Mich., checked themselves into the hospital with fevers and shortness of breath. While ...
COVID variant warning: Brazil P.1 variant infects many who had recovered, devastating Manaus
B.1.1.7, first identified in Britain, has demonstrated the power to spread far and fast. In South Africa, a mutant called ...
Meet black footed ferret Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned endangered species in North America
Elizabeth Ann had just turned 21 days old — surely a milestone for any ferret but a particularly meaningful one ...
