James Hamblin
Articles written for the GLP list the source as Genes and Science. All other articles were written for the sources noted with excerpts provided by the GLP.
Prebiotics: How best to protect your skin and why daily showers may not be a good idea
Now couldn’t be a weirder time to question washing. I’ve spent the past three years reporting on how our notions ...
‘Diagnostic conundrum’: COVID-19 pandemic has given us a lot of clinically depressed people
As a rough average, during pre-pandemic life, 5 to 7 percent of people met the criteria for a diagnosis of ...
Human hibernation eyed as solution for severe trauma, weight loss and deep-space travel
A small group of scientists is taking human hibernation extremely seriously. They are studying the basic mechanisms with an eye ...
Can we cure baldness with stem cell-based ‘hair farms’?
The physiology of balding has long vexed even the most entrepreneurial of scientists. Despite a rare confluence of commercial forces ...
How the right diet could slow cancer growth through ‘metabolic therapy’
Doctors are starting to think more about specific nutrients that feed tumor cells. That is, how what we eat affects ...
This funny-looking helmet could treat depression by ‘rewiring’ the brain
[Recent] weeks have been frenetic for Bre Hushaw, who is now known to millions of people as the girl in ...
Sanders’, activists’ anti-corporate views on GMOs ‘obscuring a level-headed approach’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Atlantic latest liberal publication to oppose mandatory GMO labeling
On Thursday, July 23, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban states from requiring special labels ...
Why do so many Americans fear Ebola, but reject vaccines?
Sitting and talking about the 10,000 people so-far killed by Ebola hemorrhagic fever in West Africa, it's easy to feel ...
How Food Babe mobilized an army against GMOs and chemicals
Over the past three years, Vani Hari has rapidly become one of the most popular voices on nutrition in mainstream ...
Glowing bunnies: Why they matter
The technique behind glowing rabbits may someday create animals that make biological pharmaceutical products ...
