Neanderthals in all of us: Genetic legacy of our Pleistocene ancestors broadens our understanding of disease and survival

Neanderthals are in all of us: Genetic legacy of our Pleistocene ancestors broadens understanding of disease and survival

Laura Ungar, Maddie Burakoff | PBS | 
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

Meet the women who described, named, and brought long COVID into the light

Lindsey Tanner | PBS | 
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?

‘Predicting the perfect embryo’? Another startup claims to help parents choose their ‘ideal’, disease-free baby. Does it work and what are the concerns?

Teresa Carey | PBS | 
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 joins growing list of cities decriminalizing psychedelics

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | PBS | 
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

A cure for COVID? Scientists now think it’s possible, and it may come soon

Corey Meador | PBS | 
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

Video: ‘The palette of modern therapeutics’ — mRNA and the COVID vaccines explained

Isabella Isaacs-Thomas | PBS | 
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

Video: Humans have lost many genes over the course of our evolution. Here’s how they helped define us

Kallie Moore | PBS | 
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

Video: The saga of how humans developed the ability to talk

Kallie Moore | PBS | 
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s ...
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Video: Mite vs mite—Farmers airdrop pest-munching predators into strawberry fields to protect their crops

PBS | 
Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices ...
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Farmers know switch to organic means lower yields, but expect price premium to make up for losses

Courtney Vinopal | PBS | 
For decades, the conventional wisdom surrounding organic farming has been that it produces crops that are healthier and better for ...
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Saving bees ‘to death’? Our efforts to grow the honeybee population by using artificial hives may harm other pollinators

Berly McCoy | PBS | 
Everyone wants to save the bees. But as populations decline every year, we may be saving them to death. Human ...
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Is one genetic mutation responsible for human endurance?

Brittany Flaherty | PBS | 
Studies suggest that a mutation caused humans to lose function of the CMAH gene two to three million years ago—around ...
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How CRISPR is speeding up animal research

Veronique Greenwood | PBS | 
Fifteen years ago or so, when Helen Sang, a geneticist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, and her colleagues wanted to ...
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Estonia becomes first nation to provide state-sponsored DNA testing

Allison Eck | PBS | 
Estonia, a former Soviet territory nestled in the Baltic region between Latvia and Russia, has become the first nation to ...
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NASA Twins Study finds thousands of epigenetic changes in astronaut Scott Kelly

Rashmi Shivni | PBS | 
When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year floating about the International Space Station, he was noticeably different from his ...
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Could MRI brain scans prove you’re innocent?

Heather Mongilio | PBS | 
Lie detection using a functional MRI machine, which measures and creates an image of brain activity, is a topic of ...
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Could artificial intelligence, machine learning help detect sepsis early?

Steven Ashley | PBS | 
Driven by the nation’s aging population, the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, and the growth of medical interventions, sepsis has become ...
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Invisible threat: Zika virus may spread through sex without showing symptoms

Robin Kazmier | PBS | 
Despite ongoing research, much about the [Zika] virus remains a mystery, including many details of how it spreads. Mosquitoes are ...
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Mosquitoes evolving resistance to nets designed to quash spread of malaria

Veronique Greenwood | PBS | 
In the last ten years or so, more than a billion insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed across the world ...
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Friendly foxes? What domesticating this ‘incorrigibly wild’ animal tells us about domestication of dogs

Andrew Wagner | PBS | 
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

Kamala Kelkar | PBS | 
In 2002, descendants of African slaves filed a historic class-action lawsuit...demanding reparations from...companies that had benefited from their predecessors. Reparations ...
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How large-scale farms using pesticides can be more sustainable than organic farming

Miriam Horn | PBS | 
Editor’s Note: In her new book “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland,” . . . Miriam Horn [tells]. . . the story ...
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Which is riskier–Pesticides or chemical free, disease free CRISPR gene-edited crops?

Brooke Borel | PBS | 
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

Amy Maxmen | PBS | 
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?

Judy Woodruff, Siddhartha Mukherjee | PBS | 
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

Denise Cummins | PBS | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  A large collaborative science ...
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Video: Why we love eating ‘killer’ pesticides in our food

Joe Hanson | PBS | 
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

Catherine Woods | PBS | 
Biologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a genetically modified version of a common bacteria found in the ...
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