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2017 | Aaron Panofsky, et al – When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists
Aaron Panofsky, ISG faculty, and Joan Donovan, former ISG postdoctoral fellow now at Data & Society…
Once Invincible Superbug Squashed by ‘Superteam’ of Antibiotics
The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close. The recent discovery of…
How The Genome Sets its Functional Micro-Architecture
The genes that are involved in the development of the fetus are activated in different…
Geneticists Trace Humble Apple's Exotic Lineage All the Way to the Silk Road
It is a lunchbox staple so ubiquitous as to have become mundane. But the apple…
Kent State Researchers Help Find Pathologic Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease in Aged Chimpanzee Brains
Dementia affects one-third of all people older than 65 years in the United States. The…
Restless Development: Bad Sleep May Be Evolutionary Survival Tool, Study Finds
Poor sleep is often regarded as a modern affliction linked to our sedentary lifestyles, electric…
Prelude to Global Extinction: Stanford Biologists Say Disappearance of Species Tells Only Part of the Story of Human Impact on Earth’s Animals
No bells tolled when the last Catarina pupfish on Earth died. Newspapers didn’t carry the…
First Big Efforts to Sequence Ancient African DNA Reveal How Early Humans Swept Across the Continent
The study of ancient human DNA has not been an equal opportunity endeavor. Early Europeans…
Long-Term Sexual Intimidation May Be Widespread in Primate Societies
After observing the mating habits of chacma baboons living in the wild over a four-year…
How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction
The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago spelled disaster for the dinosaurs. But…
Thousands of Genes Influence Most Diseases
In a provocative new perspective piece, Stanford researchers say that disease genes are spread uniformly…
Racism Aggravates Treatment-Resistant Asthma
Racial discrimination experienced by African-American children and young adults exacerbates a type of asthma known…