Bob Grant
How the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened ‘armchair’ virologists
[W]hen the Olympics are being broadcast, I transform into an armchair commentator, catching a full-blown case of what I like ...
‘Strange’ decade gave us CRISPR, gene therapy advances and a Neanderthal genome
[H]ere, we present some of the innovations, both conceptual and technological, that stood out throughout the past decade. … In ...
We’re different. We’re the same. Genomic databases require diversity to illuminate human commonalities and disparities
I edited this month’s Critic at Large essay, a piece from Jackson Laboratory Scientific Director Charles Lee on the need to inject large-scale genomic ...
Infographic: Separating hype from reality on the benefits of intermittent fasting
Scientists are further detailing both the underlying metabolic dynamics and interesting physiological phenomena aside from weight loss as they study ...
Building artificial brains to help us understand our own
You’d think that overseeing an entire issue of The Scientist focused on artificial intelligence would cause my mind to wander far into ...
Cuban lung-cancer vaccine reaches United States, starting clinical trials
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [Oct. 26] that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has green-lighted the first ...
US government returning 8,500-year-old ‘Kennewick Man’ to Native Americans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015, an international ...
Ancestry.com launches genetic service, but how much can it tell about heritage?
With only a bit of your saliva, Ancestry.com can send you a list of people you are related to, even ...
Chemicals affect sperm health, now we know how
Additives known as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) compromise male fertility by interfering with a membrane-bound calcium channel that normally controls ...
Gene threapy postdoc guilty of misconduct, has six papers retracted
A former postdoc who studied gene therapy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York is guilty of ...