May 3 2018
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I was crawling around on the floor, chasing my cat, Avalanche, as she artfully wriggled away from me over and over…
Apr 29 2018
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Jeffrey Tibbetts prepped for implantation and scrubbed in, methodically sudsing up to his elbows, scraping the dirt…
Apr 27 2018
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The identity of the Golden State Killer, a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s,…
Apr 17 2018
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When you mail off a sample of your spit to find out about your ancestry, companies like 23andMe compare your DNA to…
Apr 5 2018
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In the late 1990s, as Esteban Burchard was finishing up his medical training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s…
Mar 7 2018
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Legendary American crime writer Joseph Wambaugh wrote an excellent account of the Narborough investigation called “The Blooding” Read more
Mar 1 2018
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Genealogy is an old hobby that has had a recent surge in popularity thanks to new technology. In addition to attics…
Feb 26 2018
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More humans are having their genomes sequenced than ever before, but, as with most new technologies, DNA sequencing …
Feb 21 2018
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In 2014, the former Soviet nation of Uzbekistan announced a plan that it hoped would give it a leg up in future…
Feb 21 2018
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If you’ve ever tried to go on a diet, you know that advice about how to lose weight is often confusing, conflicting,…
Feb 16 2018
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Five years ago, when researchers first discovered that bacterial immune systems could be hijacked to edit DNA in…
Feb 15 2018
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The human body is made up of trillions and trillions cells. And of those trillions of cells, there are hundreds of…
Feb 15 2018
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CRISPR is at this point well-known for it’s powerful ability to genetically engineer DNA, but more and more often…
Feb 14 2018
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Facebook is bleeding users, with external researchers estimating that the social network lost 2.8 million US users…
Feb 14 2018
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This month the Unicode Consortium, the strange and little-known organization that decides which new emoji appear in…
Feb 12 2018
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Aaron Traywick, the theatrical CEO of a regulation-averse biotech company called Ascendance Biomedical who recently i…
Feb 9 2018
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When it comes to breakthrough therapies, sometimes it seems as though each new potentially life-saving drug comes…
Feb 8 2018
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Last Sunday at the BodyHacking Con in Austin, Aaron Traywick joined the rarefied ranks of those who have…
Feb 8 2018
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Aaron Traywick paced the stage like a caged lion. In a few minutes, he would drop trou in front of an audience and…
Feb 6 2018
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On stage at Body Hacking Con this weekend, DARPA director of biological technologies Justin Sanchez ran through an…