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How the vaccinated have convinced their hesitant loved ones to get a COVID shot
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share how they convinced the vaccine skeptics in their life to get vaccinated for ...
Conflict of Interest? Whistleblower alleges study by Stanford’s John Ioannidis critical of lockdown funded by wealthy corporate donor critical of lockdown
A highly influential coronavirus antibody study was funded in part by David Neeleman, the JetBlue Airways founder and a vocal ...
Viewpoint: Beef industry opposition to plant-based burgers about stifling competition—not consumer protection
There’s a speech war brewing in your supermarket’s meat section. On one side are the beef producers who are fed ...
Family Tree DNA voluntarily working with FBI investigators, raising privacy concerns
Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry ...
This 11-year-old girl inherited her genes almost entirely from one parent, her father
An 11-year-old girl from the Czech Republic was born with genes that came almost entirely from her father, instead of ...
23andMe asked to help reunite families separated during immigration enforcement push
California Rep. Jackie Speier is asking 23andMe, a popular DNA-testing company, to help reunite children separated from their parents under ...
Factor GMO: The curious disappearance of the ‘world’s largest international study on GMO safety’
In late 2014, an obscure Russian group called a press conference in London to announce the launch of the “world’s largest ...
Ginkgo Bioworks: $1 billon company uses genetically engineered microbes to make food, fragrances
Ginkgo Bioworks, the biotech startup that’s genetically engineering microbes to make everything from fragrances to food, is ramping up production ...
Genetic testing companies grapple with how to deal with white supremacists
White supremacists are using cheap, rapid DNA-testing services such as 23andMe to post “evidence” of their white European ancestry on ...
Mike Adams, Alex Jones and Joe Mercola: How the web turns quacks into science gurus
Welcome to the vast universe of self-built social media empires devoted to spreading false, misleading, and polarizing science and health ...
DIY genetic engineering kit to brew glow-in-the-dark booze runs into trouble with FDA
Josiah Zayner has made glow in the dark boo with a do-it-yourself DNA kit that his startup, the Odin, has just started ...
NIH director says no one should edit genomes to make designer babies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gene editing must never ...
Asymptomatic Zika infections complicate efforts to stop spread
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zika infection in a ...
As EU debates whether gene-edited crops are GMOs, confusion abounds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. So are these new ...
Microbiome remains malleable after birth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Trillions of bacteria – ...
Different genes may be responsible for longevity, healthy life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. They’ve made it far ...
Fitbit health data help doctors diagnose patient in medical first
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On Jan. 5, a ...
Mother suing laboratory after DNA test failed to catch son’s fatal illness
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. During the peaceful moments ...
Apple seeking to venture further into customers’ health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With every new device ...
DNA algorithms can help convict criminals, but ‘trade secret’ status blocks independent verifiction
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In pop culture, DNA ...
CRISPR patent issued to co-inventor Doudna’s biotech startup Caribou Biosciences
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A biotech startup has ...
5,300-year-old Iceman may have suffered from bacterial ulcers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wracked by arthritis, bitten ...
Dating app breach leaks 5,000 HIV‐positive users’ data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A security researcher has ...
Bread from…vaginal yeast: Would you eat it?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A woman decided to ...
Bernie Sanders claims CBS canceled interview on rBGH after Monsanto threatened lawsuit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bernie Sanders alleged that ...
US ceasing use of chimpanzees in medical research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The National Institutes of ...
Doctors lobby to ban direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You can’t watch TV ...
Non-browning Arctic apples could open door to consumer acceptance of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On a cloudless September morning, ...