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Body odor fingerprint: How your unique smell could help reveal cancer or COVID infections

From the aroma of fresh-cut grass to the smell of a loved one, you encounter scents in every part of ...
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Here’s the straight poop about fecal transplants

Ricki Lewis | 
Fecal transplants carry a certain ick factor for many people. But there is a legitimate medical use for them -- ...
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Headlines claim that almost half of all drinking water contains high-levels of ‘dangerous’ PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. What does the science say?

Susan Goldhaber | 
The headline “New Study Finds PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water from 45% of Faucets Across US” led many news ...
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Is there an evolutionary explanation for homosexuality in animals, including humans?

Jenny Graves | 
Since gay couples have fewer children, the high frequency of same-sex relationships in humans is puzzling from an evolutionary point ...
Autism increase mystery solved? No, it's not vaccines, GMOs, glyphosate—or organic foods

Autism increase mystery solved? No, it’s not vaccines, GMOs, glyphosate—or organic foods

Arvind Suresh | 
A change in how we diagnose and report autism and not vaccines, glyphosate or chemtrails is the prime mover as ...
Why it’s so critical to move beyond liberal rejectionism of human biodiversity

Why it’s so critical to move beyond liberal rejectionism of human biodiversity

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
The way in which evolutionary explanations can be so readily applied to apparent differences in human psychology does highlight the ...
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On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, as the Israel-Hamas War rages, a DNA data leak of Jewish 23andMe customers raises fears of modern-day Jewish yellow badges

Ricki Lewis | 
Tonight is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9 and 10, 1938, Storm Troopers, ...
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GLP podcast/video: BBC corrects botched organic farming report; Happy 41st birthday, GMO insulin! Scientific American a ‘scientific sewer’?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Facing intense criticism from experts, the BBC was pushed to correct a deeply misleading story about the benefits of organic ...
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Viewpoint: Activists falsely claim Bill Gates orchestrated flare-up in malaria cases so he can ‘cash in’ on eradicating it

Henry Miller | 
The eight cases of locally transmitted malaria recently reported in the U.S. – the first in 20 years – have ...
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Twitter/X’s race to the disinformation bottom: Are we losing a valuable forum for rational discussion?

Geoffrey Kabat | 
While many users are fleeing Twitter/X in disgust at the turn it has taken toward encouraging the spread of conspiracy ...
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Blame human evolution for corporate jargon and thick academic prose

Patrick Whittle | 
For anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have ...
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Viewpoint: Vaccine-rejectionist Jessica Biel’s foray into selling children’s medicine reinforces why she should stick to acting

Josh Bloom | 
The deluge of the use of the term "natural" for product promotion continues unabated. But perhaps it's getting stale because ...
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CRISPR-based mosquito suppression system could reduce child mortality and aid economic development in Africa

Mario Aguilera | 
Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Each year malaria infections result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, with ...
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Viewpoint: Scientific American has become a ’scientific sewer’, promoting ideological rubbish on the evolution of male-female differences, claims University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne | 
I read this new article in Scientific American claiming that women constituted a high proportion of hunters in early hunter-gatherer ...
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How to argue about ‘race’: Charles Murray and Adam Rutherford are not so far apart

Patrick Whittle | 
Shortly before the killing of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer in May this year, two (now tragically ...
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Happy 41st birthday, genetically-engineered insulin. Your approval by the FDA in 1982 took 5 months. How many years would it take now?

Henry Miller | 
October 29th marks the 41st anniversary of one of biotechnology’s most significant milestones — the approval by the Food and ...
Will AI make biology textbook authors redundant? Here's one author's view of ChatGPT

Will AI make biology textbook authors redundant? Here’s one author’s view of ChatGPT

Ricki Lewis | 
I just used ChatGPT for the first time. Initially, I was concerned about my future as the chatbot near-instantaneously answered ...
Genetic medical astrology? Nutrigenomic DNA tests: Can you prime your health by tailoring diet and exercise to your biology?

Genetic medical astrology? Nutrigenomic DNA tests: Can you prime your health by tailoring diet and exercise to your biology?

Mariam Sajid | 
"The promise of genetic testing is that it can tell you more about the way you're built so that you ...
How octopi can edit their own RNA to rapidly respond to environmental changes

How octopi can edit their own RNA to rapidly respond to environmental changes

Ricki Lewis | 
How organisms rapidly respond to a challenge: For an octopus, that might be a sudden plunge in water temperature, which ...
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GLP podcast/video: Artificial wombs coming soon? The dangers of ketamine; Banning glyphosate would be disastrous

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Premature babies might complete their gestation in artificial wombs called "biobags" in the coming years. The anesthetic ketamine might be ...
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Why worthless drugs sometimes seem to work — What we can learn from the FDA’s withdrawal of the decongestant phenylephrine 

Henry Miller | 
Last month, some of the most iconic over-the-counter name brand medicines took a hit. The FDA’s Nonprescription Drug Advisory Committee (NDAC) unanimously ...
'Judges as gatekeepers’: Court rejects ‘predator’ lawyers’ claim that Lexapro used during pregnancy led to children’s autism

‘Judges as gatekeepers’: Court rejects ‘predatort’ lawyers’ claim that Lexapro used during pregnancy led to children’s autism

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
Judicial opinions don’t evidence a clear enough understanding of the scientific method and invite push-back from an aggressive bar ...
Unraveling the mystery of who gets lung cancer and why

Unraveling the mystery of who gets lung cancer and why

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Why do some heavy smokers never get lung cancer? And why do some people who never smoke get lung cancer? ...
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Perpetuating the ‘nerd’ stereotype: Why I won’t watch Apple TV+’s ‘Lessons in Chemistry’

Ricki Lewis | 
Lessons in Chemistry, set to debut on Apple TV+ October 13, is based on the best-selling 2022 novel by Bonnie ...
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GLP podcast/video: The case for weight-loss drugs; It’s immoral to oppose CRISPR animals? Bad science and ‘forever chemicals’

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
We don't always know why anti-depressants and obesity drugs work, but that shouldn't discourage patients from taking medications that can ...
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Natural selection, artificial selection, and now political selection: How vaccine rejectionism is altering the course of evolution, and not in a good way

Ricki Lewis | 
“A sharp partisan divide remains over new Covid boosters,” reads the headline announcing a recent poll from Politico, as respiratory ...
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Viewpoint: Ketamine for mental health is being abused. We need more regulatory oversight

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
While some extol the psychological benefits of psychedelics and bemoan their unavailability, at least one FDA-approved agent with psychedelic properties, ...
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