Nature has an item for the Eye-Rolling Desk at the Bureau of Bad Science. Hungarian officials are taking a hard look at a genetic analysis firm apparently specializing in “racial … Read the rest “Bad science comes back: Eugenics pops up in Eastern Europe.”
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch:
… Read the rest “Home-cooked Parkinson’s.”The breakthrough means
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood:
… Read the rest “Blood rice.”HSA is important for treatment of a wide array of
Physorg hearkens to the growing thunder of massive, woolly feet as Japanese and Russian researchers declare they’re one step closer to bringing mammoths back:
… Read the rest “Closer to a cloned mammoth.”Teams from the Sakha
The Daily is reporting on a revolution. DIY researchers are leaving the academy to take a punk rock approach to science:
… Read the rest “Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)”Three years ago, [Mackensie] Cowell and his counterpart Jason Bobe,
So reports LiveScience’s “Bad Medicine” columnist Christopher Wanjek, writing about the woman who was the world’s oldest:
… Read the rest “Herring AND good genes can keep you young.”The 115-year-old Hendrikje van
Live Science discusses a strange bit of statistics – showing that the farther apart you and your mate are from, the taller your offspring will be:
… Read the rest “Long-distance loves have tall kids.”The researchers think the reason
University of Montreal researchers have determined that if you’ve got European ancestors, congratulations – you’re part Neanderthal:
… Read the rest “Oupa Neanderthal”Neanderthals, whose ancestors
Genetic engineers have, in the latest New Scientist, devised a device that (deviously) speeds up the process of evolution:
… Read the rest “Evolution machine”For instance, a yeast engineered to churn out the antimalarial
It must be strange to work in a facility like the ones Sky News just reported on – the places where genetically modified cows produce human breast milk:
… Read the rest “Mother cow.”The milk produced by the transgenic
Scientists studying Mexico’s family of sideshow entertainers – all of whom are covered head-to-foot in hair – and similar family in China have made a breakthrough,… Read the rest ““Werewolf family” gene discovered.”
The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease:
… Read the rest “Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.””Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile male mosquitoes by
New Scientist is considerably cheerier about another transgenic thing coming out of the sub-continent – a new generation of high-protein potatoes:
… Read the rest “Do not fear the super-spud.”Subra Chakraborty and colleagues
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