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When is it ok to edit the genome of a human embryo? Americans have mixed opinions

Claire Maldarelli | Popular Science | 
We’ve reached the point in scientific and technological advancement that editing our own genomes, or those of humans not yet ...
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Editing the brain? CRISPR and gold nanoparticles could make it possible

Kat Eschner | Popular Science | 
Add this to the list of possible applications for the seemingly-magical gene editing technology CRISPR: helping people with neurological disorders edit ...
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Human womb transplants are possible. But do we need them?

Erin Biba | Popular Science | 
As gynecologist and surgeon Liza Johannesson prepped to deliver the child via cesarean section, she was nervous. Not for the ...
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Patenting the genes of marine creatures and why it could matter for research

Kat Eschner | Popular Science | 
From the tiniest microbe to the biggest whale, the ocean is teeming with life. For corporations and researchers, that biodiversity is ...
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How purebred dogs are helping us fight cancer in humans

Sarah Chodosh | Popular Science | 
Roughly a quarter of all purebred dogs die of cancer, and 45 percent of those who live past the age of ...
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Viewpoint: Why California labels everything a carcinogen—and why it should stop

Sara Chodosh | Popular Science | 
You may have heard that coffee gives you cancer. Or that everything gives you cancer—if you live in California. The reason: Proposition 65. It’s ...
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Viewpoint: US may be losing CRISPR race against China, but FDA regulations are worth it

Claire Maldarelli | Popular Science | 
[H]ow did China edge out the United States to become the first to use CRISPR in humans? American researchers were, ...
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Ranch fights to preserve rare pre-hybrid US chickens and their unique genetics

Maryn McKenna | Popular Science | 
Every bird on [Good Shepherd Ranch] was hatched there, from an egg that was laid there, from parents that were ...
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Armor of tomorrow could be derived from these 3 animals

Kate Baggaley | Popular Science | 
Scientists are investigating what makes conch shells and fish scales so tough and designing their own versions. They’re even turning to materials ...
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How glyphosate-resistant weeds led to Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide crisis

Kendra Pierre-Louis | Popular Science | 
[In] the 1990s, Monsanto began selling a series of patented, genetically modified, “RoundUp”-ready seeds. Monsanto had altered crop seeds...to be ...
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Could discovery of boron on Mars bring us closer to finding alien life?

Sarah Chodosh | Popular Science | 
Using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover, a team of interdisciplinary scientists has found boron in the Gale Crater. Gale was probably once a lake, and ...
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Truth about genetic tests: ‘They don’t seal your fate’

Aparna Nathan | Popular Science | 
Once difficult and expensive even for the most technologically advanced labs, genetic testing is fast becoming a cheap and easy ...
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Anti-aging hormone boosts cognitive abilities in mice – could humans be next?

Kendra Pierre-Louis | Popular Science | 
[Klotho is] a naturally occurring hormone in the body. More than two decades ago, Japanese researchers discovered that this hormone ...
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Melting Greenland ice sheet could release pollution—and beneficial microbes evolved to ‘chow down’ toxins

Kendra Pierre-Louis | Popular Science | 
As the Greenland ice sheet melts due to climate change, a new study in journal Environmental Letters suggests, pollution trapped inside could ooze back into ...
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Independent health agencies disagree with IARC’s glyphosate cancer designation

The list of [Proposition 65] labeled substances [in California] includes marijuana smoke (but eating marijuana is fine, by California standards), ...
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‘Doomsday’ arctic seed vault ‘flooded’ because of global warming? Not so fast

Mary Beth Griggs | Popular Science | 
A failure at a fail-safe vault. The irony is delicious, but that’s not the whole story. On its website, the ...
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Why we sleep less as we age

Claire Maldarelli | Popular Science | 
It’s a known fact that as we age, we sleep less. But the reasoning behind this phenomenon is poorly understood ...
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Octopuses can manipulate their own genes, perhaps to solve problems

Rachel Feltman | Popular Science | 
Cephalopods...can solve a shocking number of complex puzzles, suggesting a cognition that rivals those found in the vertebrate world—even though ...
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What are natural flavors and scents? Biotechnology blurs the definition

Kate Baggaley | Popular Science | 
A company in the United Kingdom can transform chemicals found in oranges into the coveted flavor of grapefruit. By mixing ...
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Genetically engineered killer zombie mice? Not quite

Sara Chodosh | Popular Science | 
Neuroscientists at Yale University published a paper  [On Jan. 12, 2017,] in the journal Cell showing how they could trigger a ...
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Human-on-a-Chip: Future clinical drug trials may stop relying on humans altogether

Shannon Palus | Popular Science | 
Disasters [in human drug trials] are rare. But also rare are clinical trials that go well: Ninety percent of drugs ...

CRISPR democratizes biotechnology

Jen Schwartz | Popular Science | 
The biggest mistake we can make... is to prematurely vilify CRISPR and the food it makes. We should instead push ...
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Nutrition company ‘Habit’ will tell you what to eat based on your DNA

Claire Maldarelli | Popular Science | 
Over the past few decades, there have been diets that focus on increasing protein, eliminating fats, lowering calories—you name the ...
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Genetic switch may dictate if you crave more high-fat or high-sugar foods

Knvul Sheikh | Popular Science | 
We all love eating junk food even though we know it's not part of a healthy diet...Now a team of ...
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CRISPR corn: Dupont’s non-transgenic drought-tolerant gene edited corn could be on sale soon

Alexandra Ossola | Popular Science | 
[R]esearchers at DuPont Pioneer. . . have published a study about a strain of corn engineered with CRISPR to be ...
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Video: Science and ethical wariness about CRISPR gene editing should not limit its transformative capabilities

Jason Lederman | Popular Science | 
Among the various technological advances in the twenty-first century, CRISPR is perhaps the scientific breakthrough with the most potential. However, ...

Machine learning helps uncover genetics of autism

Dave Gershgorn | Popular Science | 
Researchers at Princeton and the Simons Foundation turned the traditional approach on its head, teaching a machine learning algorithm to ...

Germs found on transit system barely pose threat, despite popular belief

Coby McDonald | Popular Science | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The subway is crowded--and ...
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