New research published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the path from genetic predisposition to general ...

The internets are going crazy following the publication of a rather….interesting email written by a third-year law student at Harvard. The author wanted to clarify some points about race, genetics and ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

In his book, 'On the Future of Species Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence' he imagines a future ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.

Population genetics explores the distribution and change in frequency of alleles within and between populations, while genetic diversity underpins the capacity of species to adapt to environmental ...

The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in 100 patients are treated for A. baumannii infections. This ...

Deciphering gene circuits can be tedious and immensely time consuming. Modifying, or designing gene circuits from previously identified pathways presents further challenges. “There are many possible ...

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