Carl Zimmer explores the mysteries and contradictions of genetics
In 'She Has Her Mother's Laugh,' Zimmer reveals the lawlessness of our genes
My name's Dan. I'm a biochemist. I used to work on DNA-binding proteins (similar to Cas9, but not Cas9). After that I worked on prion diseases, like Mad Cow and Chronic Wasting Disease. Now I work on sea urchins, studying how they grow skeletons. If you’ll just let me fumble with this easel for a moment I’ll explain.
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Join five scientists as they explain the research behind new psychedelic treatments for mental illnesses
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We've gathered a team of geneticists, biologists, and environmental scientists to bring you the most up-to-date report on the science, history, and safety of genetically-modified organisms.
Charles Darwin, made flesh and tedious
A new book humanizes the legend, but few will want to read it
Should peer review stop being anonymous?
Prominent researchers can take the gamble, but junior scientists risk retribution
4 peer comments
Henry Greely, bioethicist and attorney, on why genetic tech isn't so scary
'I probably wouldn’t regulate anything except possibly parents'
Will genetic choice make sex obsolete?
Anyone hoping to shop for blemish-free, farm-to-crib babies with no diseases and a poet’s soul will be disappointed
Genes are like the cosmos: the more we discover, the more we have to explore
"I don't know how to keep the air in my chest thinking about the scale and size of the unknown"
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The Republican tax plan would hurt students and young people. We can't let it pass
Making tuition waivers taxable would keep students out of the middle class the proposal claims to protect
Scientists found an entire herpes virus genome hiding out in fish DNA
Researchers have made a bizarre discovery involving transposons, parasitic DNA found in fish (and humans)
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Dear Harvard, Berkeley, and MIT: don't patent CRISPR
Everyone should benefit from this once-in-a-lifetime discovery
Diabetes is a much stranger disease than I realized
We don't really know what causes diabetes, but it involves these misshapen proteins infecting each other
Should peer review stop being anonymous?
Prominent researchers can take the gamble, but junior scientists risk retribution
4 peer comments
Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research
A comic about the problems with the -omics, illustrated by Matteo Farinella
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