The New York Times has a thought-provoking piece out headlined, Employees Jump at Genetic Testing. Is That a Good Thing? It's a good question. The article begins: Levi Strauss & Company introduced a novel benefit for employees at its San Francisco headquarters last fall: free genetic screening to assess their hereditary risks for certain cancers…
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We couldn't help but notice the headline in the British tabloid the Daily Mail the other day: "Woolly mammoths could come back to life and SAVE the Arctic: Harvard cloning scientist is using DNA from a 42,000-year old carcass to see the Ice Age species rise from the dead." Especially because there's a scene in…
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The May-June 2018 issue of Foreign Policy magazine includes an in-depth report titled, “The New Killer Pathogens" about the coming bioweapons threat.
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The folks over at Big Think (with the modest tagline "Your daily microdose of genius") have a story about the latest experiments with CRISPR and mosquitos: CRISPR modified mosquitoes don't transmit malaria to humans. Scientists have been running tests to see if they can eradicate malaria in mosquitos without wiping out the species. They're getting…
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Interesting article in the New York Times about a geneticist at Harvard Medical School who has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people. His findings trace the prehistoric migrations of our species. From the article: Dr. Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, pointed out a strawberry-sized chunk: “[These bone fragments are] from a…
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Mainstream news organizations mistakenly report that astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA and genes were permanently altered by his flight into outer space.
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