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Neanderthals are in all of us: Genetic legacy of our Pleistocene ancestors broadens understanding of disease and survival
Scientists are finding that traits inherited from our ancient cousins are still with us now, affecting our fertility, our immune ...
Meet the women who described, named, and brought long COVID into the light
Years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to understand long COVID ...
‘Predicting the perfect embryo’? Another startup claims to help parents choose their ‘ideal’, disease-free baby. Does it work and what are the concerns?
Of course, [Rafal] Smigrodzki thinks his baby is special — most parents do. But Aurea is indeed unique. She was ...
Detroit joins growing list of cities decriminalizing psychedelics
Detroit has joined the growing number of cities and states that have decriminalized entheogenic plants and fungi, more colloquially known ...
A cure for COVID? Scientists now think it’s possible, and it may come soon
Doctors have some medications they can use to treat the effects of COVID-19, but developing a drug that targets the ...
Video: ‘The palette of modern therapeutics’ — mRNA and the COVID vaccines explained
Rather than tinkering with the virus or its parts, [mRNA vaccine technology] harnesses the “beauty of our biology” to deliver ...
Video: Humans have lost many genes over the course of our evolution. Here’s how they helped define us
Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and we’ve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is ...
Video: The saga of how humans developed the ability to talk
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s ...
Video: Mite vs mite—Farmers airdrop pest-munching predators into strawberry fields to protect their crops
Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices ...
Farmers know switch to organic means lower yields, but expect price premium to make up for losses
For decades, the conventional wisdom surrounding organic farming has been that it produces crops that are healthier and better for ...
Saving bees ‘to death’? Our efforts to grow the honeybee population by using artificial hives may harm other pollinators
Everyone wants to save the bees. But as populations decline every year, we may be saving them to death. Human ...
Is one genetic mutation responsible for human endurance?
Studies suggest that a mutation caused humans to lose function of the CMAH gene two to three million years ago—around ...
How CRISPR is speeding up animal research
Fifteen years ago or so, when Helen Sang, a geneticist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, and her colleagues wanted to ...
Estonia becomes first nation to provide state-sponsored DNA testing
Estonia, a former Soviet territory nestled in the Baltic region between Latvia and Russia, has become the first nation to ...
NASA Twins Study finds thousands of epigenetic changes in astronaut Scott Kelly
When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year floating about the International Space Station, he was noticeably different from his ...
Could MRI brain scans prove you’re innocent?
Lie detection using a functional MRI machine, which measures and creates an image of brain activity, is a topic of ...
Could artificial intelligence, machine learning help detect sepsis early?
Driven by the nation’s aging population, the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, and the growth of medical interventions, sepsis has become ...
Invisible threat: Zika virus may spread through sex without showing symptoms
Despite ongoing research, much about the [Zika] virus remains a mystery, including many details of how it spreads. Mosquitoes are ...
Mosquitoes evolving resistance to nets designed to quash spread of malaria
In the last ten years or so, more than a billion insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed across the world ...
Friendly foxes? What domesticating this ‘incorrigibly wild’ animal tells us about domestication of dogs
Cultures across the globe consider foxes to be incorrigibly wild. In both ancient fables and big-budget movies, these fluffy mammals ...
DNA tests helping descendants of slavery confront history of injustice against blacks
In 2002, descendants of African slaves filed a historic class-action lawsuit...demanding reparations from...companies that had benefited from their predecessors. Reparations ...
How large-scale farms using pesticides can be more sustainable than organic farming
Editor’s Note: In her new book “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland,” . . . Miriam Horn [tells]. . . the story ...
Which is riskier–Pesticides or chemical free, disease free CRISPR gene-edited crops?
Ultimately, whether we use CRISPR in agriculture comes down to a handful of questions: Which is better, controlling plant diseases ...
Many environmentalists dismiss best way to reduce pesticide use– GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But what really catalyzed [Walter ...
Is our understanding of genetics approaching historic turning point?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. JUDY WOODRUFF: It seems ...
Psychology isn’t the only science with reproducibility problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A large collaborative science ...
Video: Why we love eating ‘killer’ pesticides in our food
In this PBS video as part of the "It’s Okay to Be Smart" series, Joe Hanson explains that the most ...
Designer gut bacteria could help fight stomach diseases in the future
Biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a genetically modified version of a common bacteria found in the ...