Holistic Medicine Study details diet that fuels anti-inflammatory gut bacteriaslashgear.com - Brittany A. Roston A new study out of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands details the type of diet that was found to fuel the growth of healthy …
WIREDScience A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic DiseasesWIRED - Condé Nast Andrew Anzalone was restless. It was late fall of 2017. The year was winding down, and so was his MD/PhD program at Columbia. Trying to figure out …
GizmodoHealth It Took Just Three Weeks for Superbug to Resist Last-Resort Drug, Doctors SayGizmodo - Ed Cara Just in time for Halloween, doctors in France say they witnessed a real-life horror tale involving an antibiotic-resistant superbug. In less than a …
Allan Milesflipped into TiggleToggleCognition Cognitive dissonance: What to knowMedical News Today - By Jayne Leonard Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology. It refers to the mental conflict that occurs when a person's behaviors and beliefs do not …
BGRflipped into ScienceSnakes Watch a snake eat another snake while being attacked by a wasp and remind yourself to avoid Floridabgr.com - Mike Wehner To an outsider, Florida might seem like a lovely place. There’s a seemingly endless number of lovely beaches and near-tropical weather for a good …
Nelda Garrettflipped into To ReadDNA Testing Man forced to pay child support even though DNA test proves child is not hisAOL - Justin ChanA Florida man has been forced to pay child support even though a DNA test proved that he is not the child's biological father, First Coast News reports. Last year, Joseph Sinawa, of St. Augustine, went
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesBiology New gene editing tool could fix most harmful DNA mutationsThe Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorScientists have raised fresh hopes for treating people with genetic disorders by inventing a powerful new molecular tool that, in principle, can correct the vast majority of mutations that cause human
Ryan H.flipped into The CloudScience Scientists Worried That Human Brains Grown in Lab May Be Sentientfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Some neuroscientists working with lab-grown human “mini brains” worry they could be experiencing an endless horror, with a conscious existence with …
Larry Mudrieflipped into BiologyZoology A clever African toad learned to copy a deadly snake to trick predators out of eating itCNN - By Scottie Andrew, CNN(CNN) — The Congolese Giant Toad shares its rainforest habitat with one of the most fearsome snakes in Africa. But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs. In a feat of ingenious
Jazflipped into Scientific + Medical InterestsScience Psychobiotics: Your microbiome has the potential to improve your mental health, not just your gut heathsciencefocus.com - Simon Crompton Your body hosts a colony of creatures that build their lives around you. Now, scientists are beginning to see that not only do they influence your …
Forbesflipped into TechnologyBusiness According To Science, Being Forced To Smile At Work May Cause You To Drink HeavilyForbes - Amy MorinClients always appreciate a happy, friendly person taking care of their needs. Not to mention, smiling makes you feel happy as well. So, service with a smile sounds like a great idea, right? But insisting
Arnulfo Villanueva Olivoflipped into .....Science Scientists Laid Out a Technological Roadmap for What They’ll Need to Write Synthetic Genomes From Scratchdiscovermagazine.com - Alex Orlando At first, it was just Mendel and some pea plants. In the 150 years that followed, matching pairs of chromosomes were labeled, As, Ts Cs and Gs were …
Dean Cflipped into Medical SciencesViruses Strange New Virus Could Represent 'Entirely New System of Viral Evolution'ScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill By sifting through pig faeces, scientists in Japan have discovered a new type of virus that could challenge the already complicated notions of how we …
HealthlineMicrobiology Here’s How Bad Antibiotic Resistance Has Gotten Over the Past 20 YearsHealthline - Julia Ries Over the past decade, antibiotic resistance has emerged as one of the greatest public health threats. Antibiotics have been used to prevent and treat …
Inverseflipped into Science & ChillScience Fathers and mothers influence lifelong health in drastically different waysInverse - Sarah Wells Participants cited their fathers' alcohol and drug use as deterrents for themselves. Parents mold and maintain their young children’s physical and …
Medical News TodayGastrointestinal Health Which foods are beneficial for a healthy gut microbiome?Medical News Today - By Ana Sandoiu New research finds an association between healthy bacterial compositions and certain dietary patterns and food groups. What is more, the findings …
mey2980flipped into Science And TechnologyScience A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is WrongThe Atlantic - Ed YongFor 50 years, researchers have thought that moths evolved ears to detect the ultrasonic calls of attacking bats—but a new study shows that ears came first. The standard version of the tale—the one told
Richflipped into Alternative Medicine Molecular Biology The top DNA test kits, and which is right for youCNN - By Noelle IkeAt-home DNA test kits have become massively popular. Over 26 million people have tried these affordable and easy-to-use tests, and they've changed the way many of us view ourselves and our histories. it's
Futurity Newsflipped into HealthHealth Man controls 2 prosthetic arms with his thoughtsfuturity.org - Chanapa Tantibanchachai-Johns Hopkins For the first time, researchers have demonstrated simultaneous control of two of the world’s most advanced prosthetic arms through a brain-machine …
Pete Conryflipped into The Slurred WordAnimals Carl Safina Is Certain Your Dog Loves YouThe New York Times - Claudia DreifusCarl Safina, 64, an ecologist at Stony Brook University on Long Island and a “MacArthur genius” grant winner, has written nine books about the human connection to the animal world. Coming next spring “Becoming
MIT Technology Reviewflipped into MIT Technology ReviewTechnology The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPRMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado Researchers have developed “prime editing,” a true search-and-replace function for DNA. For all its well-earned fame, the gene-editing tool CRISPR is, …
Boing Boingflipped into All StoriesGenetics Russian CRISPR scientist announces new controversial effort to edit genes that cause deafnessboingboing.net - David Pescovitz Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov claims that he's begun a gene-editing process to eventually enable couples who both carry a specific genetic …
Philip Walkerflipped into Life & Health: HackedMedicine Scientists Made Mice Live 12% Longer by Hacking Their Telomeresfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann A team of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center have managed to extend the average lifespan of lab mice by more than 12 percent …
Ecology Nature stories: Children experience the seasons with Indigenous knowledge keeperstheconversation.com - Louise Zimanyi On the winding trails the ground is covered with red and yellow maple tree leaves. These are ininaatigobagaa, the children and adults in our forest …
ABC NewsSpinal Cords Study points to virus as culprit in kids' paralyzing illnessABC News - The Associated Press Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a virus is to blame for a mysterious illness that can start like the sniffles but quickly …
Gizmodoflipped into ScienceScience Mysterious Cases of Paralysis in Children May Be Caused by Polio-Like VirusesGizmodo - Ed Cara In 2014, a rare polio-like illness that attacks the nervous system of its often young victims first emerged in the U.S.—an illness with no clear …
Cannabis Michael J. Fox Foundation hopes cannabis holds key to Parkinson’s diseasethegrowthop.com - David Yasvinski With barriers to cannabis falling all over Canada and the U.S., the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) is doing its best to ensure access leads to …
U.S. News & World ReportDementia Hospitalization Can Traumatize People with Alzheimer’sU.S. News & World Report - A. Sasha Rackman Hospitalization is a choice. That may sound surprising coming from a health care provider, but the fact is that hospitalization is not a necessity, …
SlashGearflipped into SlashGear ScienceBiology This groundbreaking DNA tool could edit-out genetic diseaseslashgear.com - Chris Burns The DNA-editing tool revealed by researchers today could potentially “fix” the vast majority of known genetic diseases. According to the research …
BBC Newsflipped into Science and EnvironmentBiology Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defectsbbc.co.uk - James Gallagher A new way of editing the code of life could correct 89% of the errors in DNA that cause disease, say US scientists.
