Sara Reardon
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.
Gene-edited crops that ‘communicate with environment’ could launch next green revolution
Researchers at the Institute of Network Biology in Germany and their colleagues .... published a study in Nature showing that ...
‘Excitement is finally catching on’: Why RNA editing may be more promising than CRISPR
CRISPR editing — at least as a therapeutic technique in people — has turned out to be more difficult than ...
Lab-grown ‘mini brains’ are similar to those of premature babies and why that’s a concern
‘Mini brains’ grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time — and the electrical ...
Study shows link between autism and widely banned pesticide DDT
Mothers with high levels of the pesticide DDT in their blood during pregnancy are more likely to bear children who ...
Fighting disease with genetically modified bacteria
Several companies are testing whether engineered bacteria can treat conditions that affect the brain, liver and other organs — and ...
Tracking the role of tau protein in Alzheimer’s
Jhon Kennedy’s relatives understood the illness they faced. For more than three decades, researchers there have been tracking a genetic ...
How tracing the evolutionary family tree of all female lab mice will help improve medical research
Adam and Eve, a pair of black mice, lived for less than two years and never left their home at ...
NIH controversy: Should human mind and brain research be considered clinical trials
Scientists studying human behaviour and cognitive brain function are up in arms over a plan by the US National Institutes ...
Fountain of youth? Stem cells show promise in slowing aging, rejuvenating brain — in mice
Stem cells in the brain could be the key to extending life and slowing ageing. These cells — which are ...
Can genetically modified viruses stop antibiotic-resistant infections?
Genetically modified viruses that cause bacteria to kill themselves could be the next step in combating antibiotic-resistant infections. Several companies ...
‘Wake up call’: Farm animal overuse drives jump in antibiotic-resistance genes
Eighteen months ago, a gene that confers resistance to colistin — known as an ‘antibiotic of last resort’ — emerged ...
Bacteria in your gut may influence effectiveness of drugs for cancer, Parkinson’s
Researchers now have evidence that healthy people metabolize some drugs in different ways depending on their microbial make-up. ... To ...
Scientists control mouse’s brain with laser to make them eat milkshakes quicker
Lasers shone into the brains of mice can now activate individual neurons — and change the animals behaviour. Scientists have ...
Largest study of transgender teens to assess treatments during puberty
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For transgender children who ...
US Olympic teams experimenting with brain stimulation to improve athlete’s performance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Elite ski jumpers rely ...
CRISPR promises to revive endangered species, introduce new pets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, researchers had ...
US panel greenlights ‘3-parent embryos’ for IVF, but boys only
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The US Food and ...
Optogenetics brain studies may reveal unintended results, complicate research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the tightly woven ...
Neuroscientists peer into brain seeking roots of suicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Suicide is a puzzle ...
Pig organs may soon be suitable for human transplant, thanks to CRISPR
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For decades, scientists and ...
Antipsychotics given to patients without mental illness despite questions of effectiveness and risks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Antipsychotic drugs are widely ...
How much access to DNA databases should be shared with public?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After dozens of unsuccessful ...
US genetic health studies fail to accurately represent country’s ethnic makeup
The clock is ticking for experts charged with designing a U.S. government programme to collect genetic, physiological and other health ...
U.S. researchers question inconsistent prosecution of scientific misconduct
Rare is the scientist who goes to prison on research misconduct charges. But on July 1, Dong-Pyou Han, a former ...
Congress debates blocking federal support for embryonic genome editing, introducing religious oversight
The U.S. House of Representatives is wading into the debate over whether human embryos should be modified to introduce heritable ...
US to end almost all research using chimpanzees
Chimpanzee research in the United States may be nearly over. On June 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ...
Youthful blood may not be a miracle elixir against aging, despite hopeful research
For decades, scientists have sought to understand the anti-ageing effects of parabiosis, a technique in which researchers sew a young ...
New stem cell type could allow growing human organs in animals
A newly discovered type of stem cell could help provide a model for early human development — and, eventually, allow ...
