Olivia Goldhill
Fibromyalgia is a disease that eludes diagnosis: Can artificial intelligence change that?
There’s no tissue damage that explains the pain fibromyalgia patients experience all over their body, and contemporary medicine struggles to ...
Feelings of empathy shaped in part by our genetics
Parents are used to getting the blame for their children’s emotional defects. When it comes to empathy, it turns out ...
Intelligence definitively linked to genetics: Does this open doors to racism?
Your intelligence is partly due to hard work, nutrition, and education. But you can also thank (or blame) your genes ...
Genes major influence on academic achievement–and that makes leftists uncomfortable
A massive and fast growing field in science—behavioral genetics—has a huge body of conclusive evidence that, at first reading, seems at ...
Native Americans’ genes reveal devastating impact of arrival of Europeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Geneticists have traced the ...
Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When agriculture arrived in ...
Women at higher risk for insomnia, thanks to genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women are known to ...
Should embryonic gene modification be allowed to proceed under close surveillance?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Editing human embryos’ DNA ...