Dr. Belinda Martineau is the Principal Editor at the UC Davis Genome Center. In an excerpt from the article, Martineau states: “Once scientists have told the truth, warts and all (and genetic…
Geneticists from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland reported Wednesday(10/24) that they had crossed a threshold long considered off-limits: They have made changes in human DNA that can be…
Excerpt: Colman Chadam, an 11-year-old California boy, has been ordered to transfer from his current school to another one miles away because of his genetic makeup. Now, his parents are…
The new research from York University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that the reason worker bees are such a highly skilled and specialized…
Our national “obesity epidemic” is spawning disease, shortening life spans and bankrupting our health care system. Or is it? Could our negative attitudes about fatness-a disease that people bring upon…
This article addresses the controversy surrounding an 107-page paper by Oded Galor of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Quamrul Ashraf of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts that is…