Ed Yong
Microbes make strides in cancer treatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Few recent developments have ...
White House mulling microbiome research initiative?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacteria and other microbes ...
Adorable reptile helps answer question: How did penises evolve?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sometimes, in science, you ...
International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) is ‘confusogenic to humans”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The International Agency of Research ...
Indigenous peoples seek to become partners, not guinea pigs in genetics research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Akimel O’odham (Pima), ...
DNA ‘origami’ helps genes function how they’re supposed to
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human genome is ...
Where did humans get their unique genes from?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The human genome contains ...
What to do when gene test for breast cancer risk comes back uncertain?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2013, U.S. actress ...
Nobel-winning drugs only part of solution for elephantiasis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the 1970s, William ...
Simple gene test can fully prevent devastating skin-peeling condition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It starts with a ...
Each one of our brain neurons has unique genetic lineage
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Populations in extreme environments show best of what genome has to offer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If I ate an ...
Genome sequencing has revolutionized treatment of rare disorders
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The last two years ...
Mini DNA sequencer helped track spread of Ebola
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Lauren Cowley arrived ...
Population genomics can help identify genes underlying rare diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Let’s say you have ...
Babies leave stem cell imprint in mom’s body long after birth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A mother’s children will ...
Are psychology studies reliable? Many science studies not reproducible
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one is entirely ...
What defines a healthy microbiome depends on context
We all know people who act very differently depending on the company they find themselves in. They can be delightful ...
You leave traces of your microbiome everywhere you go
When you touch a surface, you leave behind fingerprints—distinctive swirling patterns of oils that reveal your identity. You might also ...
Ctenophores, long-underestimated outcast of animal kingdom, now challenge design of evolutionary tree
In the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a group of scientists published a tub-thumping defense of sponges and other ...
What explains the dog-human love affair?
Wolves are wild, powerful, and fearsome predators, capable of bringing down even large prey. And yet, tens of thousands of ...
Moms’ breastmilk helps establish healthy microbe community in babies’ gut
Breast milk seems like a simple nutritious cocktail for feeding babies, but it is so much more than that. It ...
Microbiome of rural populations distinctly different, more ‘diverse’ than in Western populations
The study of the human microbiome—the motley assortment of microbes that live in our bodies—has largely been the study of ...
Microbes, more than diet, responsible for one type of malnutrition
Malnutrition seems like an intuitive problem: you don’t eat enough food, so your health suffers. But it’s not that simple ...
Wrong kind of gut microbes could cause malnutrition
Malnutrition seems like an intuitive problem: you don’t eat enough food, so your health suffers. But it’s not that simple ...
Only a few genes separate human and animal intelligence
Some parts of our genome have evolved at particularly high speed, quickly accumulating mutations that distinguish them from their counterparts ...
Why did most mammals stop laying eggs?
About a decade ago, Vincent Lynch emailed Frank Grutzner to ask for a tissue sample from a pregnant platypus. He ...
Research in squids offers window into understanding human microbiome
From below, the squid is invisible. From above, it is adorable. “They're just so beautiful,” says Margaret McFall-Ngai, a zoologist ...