David Warmflash
GMO sustainability frontier: Helping crops acquire their own nitrogen
Tweaking a crop's genetics to help it fix its own nitrogen could avoid the need for massive amounts of fertilizer, ...
Y-chromosome not going extinct, but losing it may be risk factor for Alzheimer disease
The story of the Y chromosome began about 300 million years ago, when the ancestors of mammals diverged from reptiles ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
40th anniversary of NASA’s Project Viking and beginning of search for Martian life
40 years ago, Project Viking first landed on Mars. NASA would conclude that the project found no evidence of life ...
NASA’s spaceflight DNA sequencer: What will it do for science and medicine?
DNA sequencing equipment will be on board an upcoming mission to space. If Martian microbes exist, then this is one ...
How Brexit will impact the future of farming, GMOs and gene editing in Britain and Europe
What does Brexit mean for crop and animal biotechnology in Britain or Europe? How might CRISPR and New Breeding Technologies ...
Eve of Mars colonization: Moon as test base for pregnancy in fractional gravity
Before anyone attempts pregnancy on Mars, we need to be sure if that would work, but recently NASA announced plans ...
Gene driving to combat insect-borne diseases: Powerful tool requiring science diplomacy
Gene drives raise ethical and practical concerns. What are the communication challenges? ...
Why men like women’s curves: How big a role has evolution played?
Evidence has been building in support of the belief that sexual attraction is hardwired, linked to evolution. But the case ...
Heard of CRISPR gene editing? It can save your life
Science is in the midst of a CRISPR craze as the technology is poised to improve treatment and prevention of ...
Human preservation: Will advances in cryobiology change science fiction to science fact?
Cryonics may sound very sci-fi and many liken its followers to those of some 'New Age religion'. Yet cryonics could ...
Advances in genetic research enhancing our understanding of human evolution
New data on early humans are coming in with increasing frequency and this has to do with advances in molecular ...
Should we trust experiments on one patient? Lessons from BioViva’s anti-aging gene therapy
The CEO of biotech company BioViva is a healthy woman in her mid forties, but last September she become her ...
Why it matters that Sanders aligns with conservatives on funding stem cell and cloning research
Bernie Sanders has consistently aligned with social conservatives on human cloning and stem cell research. What could this mean for ...
Artificial uterus: How close is the reality?
Nobody is working on an artificial uterus that can carry a fetus for the entirety of a pregnancy. But medical ...
Did life begin in intense heat or cold? Maybe both
Earth's Archaeon eon, the time when life emerged, may not have been as hot as scientists had previous thought. But ...
Voting genes: Are political views inherited?
There are dozens of studies showing correlations between genes political attitudes, but the fact is the genetic information in our ...
To every disease there is a season? What our genes tell us
Some diseases occur more frequently in certain seasons. The reasons why involve thousands of genes whose activity are influenced by ...
Why some animals live for centuries and don’t get cancer
There are an increasing number of genetic clues from animals that could provide hints to treating aging and age related ...
Where should scientists focus search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
As scientists continue to probe the far-reaches of the universe for other intelligent beings, some are suggesting we switch our ...
Gene editing on human embryos would not create ‘designer babies’
Despite some concerns over 'super-humans' and 'designer babies,' genome editing of human embryos likely to produce only modest edits to ...
Biotechnology, synthetic biology keys to humans colonizing other planets
The lack of technology for such sustainable life support systems is a major factor underlying criticism of human space exploration ...
Ape-to-human, pig-to-human blood donations: Could xenotransfusions work?
Scientists have long known of blood similarities between humans and other animals, so why have xenotransfusions yet to become common ...
Science deniers stay home: Synthetic biology crucial to human missions to Mars
Bioprocessing of lunar materials will allow us to transport more people and non-consumable supplies (such as equipment) back and forth, ...
Not in our stars but our DNA: Is faith and embrace of religion (and astrology) hardwired?
Our beliefs, including irrational ones and an embrace of pseudoscience, have been shown to be largely independent of one’s educational ...
Orthorexia nervosa: Do anti-GMO activists and shoppers have it?
Orthorexia nervosa is being evaluated as a possible psychiatric diagnosis -- which is causing symptoms of anxiety among some elites ...
Nutrigenomics: Can diets be tailored to an individual’s genetic make-up?
The answer, in the future, is "yes," but refining our understanding of personalized genomics means it will take time to ...
