How the Brain Deletes Old Memories
Do you remember your first birthday? How about what you ate for breakfast weeks ago? For most people, such events slip through the sieve of memory, never to be retrieved….
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Vermont Becomes First US State to Require GM Labelling for Food
Vermont became the first state in the US on Thursday to adopt a law requiring labels for foods containing genetically modified ingredients. The state’s governor, Peter Shumlin, announced on his…
Dogs Follow Human Voice Direction to Find Hidden Food
Dogs and puppies are gifted at interpreting human communicative hints, and previous studies showed that they use human visual cues like pointing or gazing in order to find hidden food….
Is FDA's Crackdown on Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing a Violation of the First Amendment?
In November 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the company 23andMe to stop offering its direct-to-consumer DNA testing service, which provided individuals with $99 assessments of their…
Janet Buckner, Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Congratulations Janet Buckner for being awarded the Fulbright Fellowship her research on primate phylogenetics in the Brazilian Amazon!
Humans Smell Gender
The human body produces chemical cues that communicate gender to members of the opposite sex, according to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. Whiffs of the active…