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For Gays, the Worst Is Yet to Come. Again.
The New York Times - By LARRY KRAMER
I was recently honored for my birthday with an all-star reading of my play “The Destiny of Me.” It was obviously a very emotional experience for me. I’m supposed to be dead by now. Most of the guys who
Sexual Harassment
Why science breeds a culture of sexism
The Guardian - David Batty and Nicola Davis
“Woman after woman says ‘I am afraid to be alone in a room with a man’. How are you going to have a productive career? Lois, a medical researcher, endured more than five years of sexual harassment during
Technology (Australia)
'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay
The Guardian - Paul Lewis
Progress makes people uncomfortable. When the first monkeys walked, other monkeys probably said, 'This is outrageous!' Kosinski received emails from people confused about their sexuality who hoped he'd
Universal Basic Income
Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income?
The New Yorker - Nathan Heller
It has enthusiasts on both the left and the right. Maybe that’s the giveaway. In 1795, a group of magistrates gathered in the English village of Speenhamland to try to solve a social crisis brought on
Measuring quantitative effects of methylation on transcription factor–DNA binding affinity
sciencemag.org
• D. Schübeler , Function and information content of DNA methylation.Nature 517, 321–326 (2015). M. M. Suzuki, • A. Bird , DNA methylation landscapes: …
Why Does Heat Kill Cells?
The Atlantic - Veronique GreenwoodQuanta
The answer to a longstanding mystery suggests that proteins are far more malleable than previously thought. Above a certain temperature, a cell will collapse and die. One of the most straightforward explanations
Particles
5 Reasons Why The 21st Century Will Be The Best One Ever For Astrophysics
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
It’s been a staple of science throughout the centuries: the arrogant thinking that we’ve almost arrived at the ultimate answers to our deepest questions. Scientists thought that Newton’s mechanics described
Intelligence and Race, in sub-populations
freethoughtblogs.com
I’ve read a fair number of papers covering race and genes. In fact, before I go farther, here’s a bibliography: In this article, the authors argue …
Mutations
Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins can edit and recode their own genes
inhabitat - by Marni Fogelson
Octopuses have earned a reputation as clever aquatic escape artists. But in addition to being underwater Houdinis, these creatures (and other coleiod …
Lean Startups
OSM (Pronounced Awesome) Hardware Makes DNA in Space
hackaday.com - by: Michael Uttmark
OSM stands for Oligonucleotide Synthesizer designed for use in Microgravity, meaning that it’s a device that makes arbitrary DNA strands (of moderate …
Trump tax plan leaves Congress, Ryan with heavy lift
apnewsarchive.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's tax plan leaves much of the heavy lifting to Congress, while ignoring years of hard work by the guy who …
The Republicans who care about climate change: 'They are done with the denial'
The Guardian - Oliver Milman
As despair intensifies over Trump’s agenda, the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus brings Democrats and Republicans together to break the deadlock The failure of American politics to deal with, or even
Immune System
This Single Test Could Identify Every Virus That's Ever Infected You
curiosity.com - Haley Otman
Blood tests are no fun. Luckily, a group of researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, along with others, have come up …
Astronomy
We've Lost Sight Of The Most Important Rule In Debating Science
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
It was almost 100 years ago that the most famous debate in science history took place. The topic up for consideration was the nature of the spiral objects in the sky: were they proto-stars in the process
Immune System
Scientists uncover mechanism allowing bacteria to survive the human immune system
phys.org - University of East Anglia
Researchers have uncovered molecular details of how pathogenic bacteria fight back against the human immune response to infection. Scientists at the …
Meet CRISPR’s Younger Brother, SHERLOCK
bigthink.com - Robby Berman
Along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, Feng Zhang is one of the inventors of CRISPR-cas9 — or “CRISPR” for short — the cut-and-paste …
The Next International Science Megaproject
bigthink.com - Teodora Zareva
Between 1990 and 2003, the world saw the completion of one of the biggest international scientific collaborations that led to the creation of the The …
Why Biomedical Companies Are Bleeding Horseshoe Crabs to the Brink of Extinction
Esquire - By Caren Chesler
Can this creature that's been around since the dinosaurs be saved? Meghan Owings plucks a horseshoe crab out of a tank and bends its helmet-shaped shell in half to reveal a soft white membrane. Owings
Nanobody System Tags, Grabs, Drags Proteins in the Cell | GEN
genengnews.com
Click Image To Enlarge + A nanobody-based system has been used to control intracellular protein localization and enable detailed investigation of wing …
Protein
Rescue protein gives doomed cells a stay of 'execution': Discovery of the protein that delays cell death could aid transplant
sciencedaily.com - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Discovery of the protein that delays cell death could aid transplant survival and offer treatment for cancer, neurodegeneration and infection A team …
Excitement turns to horror as cruise passengers witness orcas harpooned off Caribbean island
The Telegraph - By Hannah Meltzer
Thomson Cruise is considering stopping all whale and dolphin watching tours in the Grenadines after holidaymakers on an outing witnessed two whales being killed. The incident has also put pressure on small
Genetics
Scientists just changed the way we build genomes to make them 270,000 times cheaper
Quartz - Katherine Ellen Foley
In 2003, the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health announced that—13 years and $2.7 billion later—they had finally finished mapping the human genome. But the quest to understand
Mutations
Scientists Think They've Traced The Very First Mutations in a Human Life
Science Alert - SIGNE DEAN
"Like finding a needle in a haystack." For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of the earliest genetic mutations in human …
What Do Lungs Do? Help Us Breathe And Maybe Even Produce Blood
ibtimes.com - Avaneesh Pandey
Our lungs may be doing much more than just helping us breathe. A series of experiments on mice, carried out by researchers at the University of …
Harvard scientists pinpoint critical step in DNA repair, cellular aging
harvard.edu
DNA repair is essential for cell vitality, cell survival, and cancer prevention, yet cells’ ability to patch up damaged DNA declines with age for …
Donald Trump
Trump Still Hasn’t Done Very Much
POLITICO - By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
Month Two: What matters and what didn’t. Monday marks the end of President Donald Trump’s second month in office. And once again, it was a month dominated by news coverage of President Donald Trump. He
Advertising Industry
Helix Picks Eleven to Help Introduce Consumers to the Future of DNA Sequencing
Adweek - By Patrick Coffee
The future is in your genes. Bay Area startup Helix believes that individual DNA genomes hold the key to mastering the digital economy, and many …
Protein
Researchers Created Molecular-Level Nanobots Programmed With DNA
Inverse - Dyani Sabin
A team of researchers just developed an amoeba-like micro robot that is activated by DNA and has the potential to be used as artificial white blood …

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For Gays, the Worst Is Yet to Come. Again.

Why science breeds a culture of sexism

'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay

Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income?

Measuring quantitative effects of methylation on transcription factor–DNA binding affinity

Why Does Heat Kill Cells?

5 Reasons Why The 21st Century Will Be The Best One Ever For Astrophysics

Intelligence and Race, in sub-populations

Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins can edit and recode their own genes

OSM (Pronounced Awesome) Hardware Makes DNA in Space

Trump tax plan leaves Congress, Ryan with heavy lift

The Republicans who care about climate change: 'They are done with the denial'

This Single Test Could Identify Every Virus That's Ever Infected You

We've Lost Sight Of The Most Important Rule In Debating Science

Scientists uncover mechanism allowing bacteria to survive the human immune system

Meet CRISPR’s Younger Brother, SHERLOCK

The Next International Science Megaproject

Why Biomedical Companies Are Bleeding Horseshoe Crabs to the Brink of Extinction

Nanobody System Tags, Grabs, Drags Proteins in the Cell | GEN

Rescue protein gives doomed cells a stay of 'execution': Discovery of the protein that delays cell death could aid transplant

Excitement turns to horror as cruise passengers witness orcas harpooned off Caribbean island

Scientists just changed the way we build genomes to make them 270,000 times cheaper

Scientists Think They've Traced The Very First Mutations in a Human Life

What Do Lungs Do? Help Us Breathe And Maybe Even Produce Blood

Harvard scientists pinpoint critical step in DNA repair, cellular aging

Trump Still Hasn’t Done Very Much

Helix Picks Eleven to Help Introduce Consumers to the Future of DNA Sequencing

Researchers Created Molecular-Level Nanobots Programmed With DNA