Dino Grandoni
“Y” do women outlive men?
Women tend to live longer than men. There are traditional explanations: Men smoke more. They drink more. They tend to ...
Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical concerns
[S]ome doctors and scientists say it is time to take the extraordinary step of unleashing gene editing to suppress mosquitoes ...
‘Anthropocene’ debate: Scientists disagree over whether we are in a new geological epoch, and here’s why it matters
A panel of scientists rejected the term “Anthropocene” to describe a period in which humans have profoundly impacted the environment ...
Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise
Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, announced [March 6] that it has produced a line of Asian elephant ...
Effort to rescue the almost-extinct American chestnut tree hits a snag, as rift develops between major sponsoring organizations over gene-editing techniques
The American Chestnut Foundation, a nonprofit where [Jared] Westbrook is director of science, has poured years of work into a ...
Search for elusive angel shark and growing revolutionary field of bio-tracking environmental DNA
Today, with the Natural Marine Park of Cap Corse and Agriate, we can find rare sea life without having to ...
Gene editing could revive the American chestnut tree and help fight climate change — but familiar anti-biotechonology activist critics will have none of it
These trees once ruled the canopies of much of Appalachia, with billions of mature American chestnut trees that towered in ...