Nearly 500 Trump-voting US counties have less than 25% of their populations vaccinated, opening door to fall COVID revival

Nearly 500 Trump-voting US counties have less than 25% of their populations vaccinated, opening door to fall COVID revival

Bloomberg | 
As much of the country emerges from masking and social distancing, undervaccinated pockets in the U.S. still threaten to bring ...
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23andMe and weight loss: Can consumer DNA-testing company deliver?

Bloomberg | 
Consumer DNA-testing giant 23andMe Inc. plans to add new wellness offerings it hopes will help its customers shed a few pounds, but ...
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10 questions about consumer genetics tests

Bloomberg | 
So-called direct-to-consumer DNA testing companies like 23andMe, Ancestry and Helix advertise the ability to reveal your ancestry, inform you of ...
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This legal squabble is challenging the way we handle DNA ownership

Gizmodo | 
Toronto businessman Harold Peerenboom and Marvel Entertainment chairman Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter were locked in an absurd suburban skirmish, bickering over ...
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Viewpoint: I know my skin better than a ‘DNA-optimized’ skincare routine does

Gizmodo | 
LifeDNA purports to take your DNA data from companies like 23andMe, and, relying on findings from “over 1,100 peer-reviewed studies,” ...
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DNA health and and ancestry test for pets? Why would you want to do that?

Gizmodo | 
The market for at-home DNA tests has exploded. Curious to find out about their ancestry, risk of disease, diet, and athletic ...
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Death of controversial biohacker Aaron Traywick puts movement at ‘crossroads’

Atlantic | 
At just 28, [Aaron] Traywick was among the most infamous figures in the world of biohacking—the grandiose CEO of a ...
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Writer agrees to be biohacked. Now she wonders if it was worth it

Gizmodo | 
Grinders are hackers, but the hardware they aim to hack is the human body. They are transhumanist in the most ...
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44 genetic variants linked to depression — and we may all carry some of them

Gizmodo | 
Depression is a tricky beast. Symptoms vary widely from person to person, as does the response to treatment. But there’s no ...
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The ambitious effort to sequence the DNA of earth’s 1.5 million animals, plants and fungi

Gizmodo | 
In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of researchers is organizing ...
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Viewpoint: Precision medicine based on white populations could ‘reinforce existing societal and economic inequalities’

Gizmodo | 
Sequencing the human genome has shown us that we are mostly all made up of the same stuff, but it’s ...
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Men, women respond differently to genes linked to depression

Gizmodo | 
In men and women diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the same genes show the opposite changes. In other words, the ...
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Can Halo’s brain-zapping headsets improve athletic performance?

Gizmodo | 
Equinox jumped at the chance to offer Halo Neuroscience’s brain-zapping, supposedly performance-enhancing headsets as part of its advanced personal training ...
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23andMe adds 120 geographic regions to make genetic ancestry results more precise

Gizmodo | 
If you’ve ever taken an ancestry DNA test, you probably already know that the results aren’t exactly precise. Sometimes you wind ...
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Consumer genetics first: 23andMe gets OK to sell limited DNA test for cancer risk

Gizmodo | 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared 23andMe to sell directly to customers a DNA test for gene mutations ...
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Big breakthrough? Man’s penis injected with stem cells at controversial clinic

Gizmodo | 
Ben Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru to the sort of nerds who devote themselves to ...
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Video: Watch DNA organization in real time

Gizmodo | 
Your body is truly amazing. Every cell inside of it is capable of organizing massive messes of DNA into chromosomes ...
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Quest to find ‘Olympic genes’ comes up short—so far

Gizmodo | 
In 2014, the former Soviet nation of Uzbekistan announced a plan that it hoped would give it a leg up ...
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Cutting through the ‘dieting din’: Your DNA won’t help you lose weight

Gizmodo | 
Many consumer DNA testing companies have pledged to cut through the dieting din with personalized advice. Different diets work for ...
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CRISPR ‘black box’ tells us what’s happening inside human cells

Gizmodo | 
To get a peek inside the cell, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a sort ...
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‘Inherently imperfect’: Why ancestry tests are often misunderstood

Gizmodo | 
It’s right there in the fine print of any consumer DNA test, if you bother to read it: DNA testing ...
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DARPA: Biohackers should ‘think deeply’ about using themselves as research guinea pigs

Gizmodo | 
[DARPA biotechnology director Justin] Sanchez was not only [at Body Hacking Con] to promote the agency’s expansive research portfolio. He ...
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‘Genetic nurture’: Parents’ genes affect how they raise their children

Gizmodo | 
A new paper [January 26] in Science suggests a fascinating new twist on this interaction between our genes and our environment. Our ...
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Targeting invasive pests with genetically tailored poison in New Zealand

Gizmodo | 
Recently, New Zealand has been at the center of a heated debate over whether it is either feasible or ethical to use ...
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‘An awful lot of spit’: Consumer DNA test market booms as consumers ‘take control of their health’

Gizmodo | 
When AncestryDNA sold some 1.5 million of its genetic testing kits over Black Friday weekend, it seemed like clear evidence that after ...
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Should the FDA have a say in ‘do-it-yourself’ biohacking?

Gizmodo | 
In the past few months, the possibility of do-it-yourself genetic engineering has exited the realm of the purely hypothetical. ...
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CRISPR food coming soon: USDA decision speeds up regulatory process for gene-edited crops

Gizmodo | 
In September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light to a version of the plant Camelina sativa, an important oilseed crop that ...
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Can a genetic test tell you how to lose weight? 23andMe is trying to find out

Gizmodo | 
23andMe is kicking off a massive study into the genetics of weight loss that the company says will involve 100,000 people crowdsourced ...
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