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‘A finite pool of worry’: Why humans are unable to focus on climate change and the pandemic at the same time

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It's safe to say that the first two years of the pandemic left a lot of people exhausted and emotionally ...
Recipient of gene-edited pig heart transplant survived for just two months. What can we learn from what went wrong?

Recipient of gene-edited pig heart transplant survived for just two months. What can we learn from what went wrong?

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A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection ...
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Trust in scientists high globally, Pew survey finds, but public still skeptical of GM crops

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The good news is that there’s widespread trust in scientists and a strong desire to act on their findings on ...
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Stem cell tourism: Shady treatments are being offered–even in the United States

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[W]e're just starting clinical trials to determine if we can use [stem] cells effectively. But that hasn't stopped people from ...
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An essential but ‘disturbing’ question: What if coronavirus is here for good?

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Most of the optimistic ideas about what to do about SARS-CoV-2 involve engineering the virus's extinction. We could ramp up ...
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Turning thoughts to text with brain implants and artificial intelligence

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For people with limited use of their limbs, speech recognition can be critical for their ability to operate a computer ...
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Worst-case scenario for coronavirus deaths ‘imperfect and has to rely on a number of assumptions’

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On Monday [March 16], the COVID-19 Response Team at Imperial College London released a report that describes its efforts to ...
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Re-engineering yeast to create biofuel appears possible, ‘but the effort involved is intimidating’

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A little while ago, we covered the idea of using photovoltaic materials to drive enzymatic reactions in order to produce specific chemicals ...
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Chinese scientists may have figured out how to attack the protein created by Huntington’s damaged gene

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Huntington's disease is caused by a dominant mutation, meaning that anyone who inherits it will develop the disease. ... Despite ...
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Infographic: Meet Asgard archaea, a simple cell that just might look like one of our oldest relatives

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The cells of all animals, plants, and fungi have an impressive complexity, with a variety of compartments specialized in various ...
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Viewpoint: Elon Musk’s Neuralink dreams are a mix of reality and ‘science fiction’

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So, how precisely is Neuralink pushing the envelope?  ... A lot of Neuralink's vision may sound difficult to believe, but ...
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Does testosterone impact moral decisions? Not according to this research.

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The Trolley Problem is a staple of ethics courses and has even made its way into prime-time television. It's a ...
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A tale of two GMO crops: Why were omega-3 producing plants developed faster than golden rice?

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One of the arguments that has been advanced to promote genetically engineered crops is that .... [c]rops could be engineered ...
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Why gene editing isn’t ready for treating human disease: It’s not ‘efficient enough’

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Gene editing will likely always come with a bit of risk; when you're cutting and pasting DNA in millions of ...
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Video: Are biotech crops safe? A brief history of the GMO debate

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Recent studies show the general public and the scientific community are deeply divided on the perceived safety of GMOs. Ars ...
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Using stem cells to trace autism’s development to earliest days of pregnancy

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Figuring out how autism starts is complicated. … [A] large international team obtained skin cells from eight autistic people and ...
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Ancient Italian cemeteries tell tales of barbarian migration

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We know very little of [Longobards] or any of the other barbarian tribes that roared through Western Europe other than ...
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Genes play a role in educational achievement, but not as much as your parents’ education does

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What's more important, genes or environment? …The advent of genomics has given us a new perspective on the role of ...
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Using gene editing to merge an organism’s chromosomes into ‘one giant molecule’

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Complex organisms have complex genomes. While bacteria and archaea keep all of their genes on a single loop of DNA, ...
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Better than antibiotics? Bacteria-targeting viruses show potential against pneumonia

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Like other cells, bacteria often find themselves victims of viral infections, dying as new viruses burst out to infect their ...
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Can we delay aging by killing off old cells with powerful drug combo?

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We have a good idea of what makes individual cells old. Things like DNA damage, shortened chromosome ends, and a ...
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USDA wants your opinion on its GMO labeling proposal

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There's nothing inherently unsafe about genetically engineering crops or agricultural animals. ... But the public has been consistently uneasy about ...
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Ars Technica decision to reject reporting on latest cellphone scare study illustrates how journalists apply science literacy

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[Recently], a fellow editor emailed me a link to yet another study purporting to show that cellphone use could be ...
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Modeling human tumors in mice can be problematic—here’s why

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[A] new study [read full study] suggests that an unfortunate side effect of ... evolutionary changes is that human tumors are ...
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Twist on truth: Knowledge, such as on GMOs, can lead to a rejection of the scientific consensus

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[A] new study out [August 22nd] joins a number of earlier ones in indicating that scientific knowledge makes it easier ...
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When genetics has no answer: Heart disorder patients gain knowledge, but no help

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Getting a better understanding of a disease can open all sorts of possibilities for better treatments, even ones tailored to ...
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Researchers ‘evolve’ new Bt toxin that could fight insect resistance to GMO crops

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops ...
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Fear of ‘foreign’ genes in GMOs? Turns out Nature produces transgenic sweet potatoes

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One of the most frequently mentioned issues with GMO foods is a vague concern about bringing genes from distantly related ...
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