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The Push for Artificial Inheritance
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1267+ words) Visual: Illustration by Undark; Base images via Getty And there was an unmistakable interest in genetically modifying human embryos " to spare them from disease, yes, but also to engineer smarter, stronger, more resilient human beings. "I believe that future historians,…...
A DNA Archive Built to Identify Missing Migrants Has Vanished
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1043+ words) Top: The U. S. -Mexico border fence in Arizona. Visual: i Stock via Getty Images In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibr" Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to…...
Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (1452+ words) Top: Katelyn Messer is among the researchers at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who have sequenced 1, 000 whole genomes of measles viruses that spread in the U. S. between Jan. 20, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2026. Visual: Amy Maxmen/KFF Health News More careful analyses take…...
Prediction Markets Make a Bet Against Public Health
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (712+ words) Gambling has long been treated as a vice: risky, addictive, and deliberately set apart from everyday life. Casinos are zoned away from schools. Sportsbooks display warnings. The danger is acknowledged, even when laws and restrictions on gambling fall short. But…...
Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Books
1+ week, 1+ day ago (346+ words) Visual: i Stock / Getty Images Plus Educational authorities have been investing heavily. Last year alone, the education ministry allocated $83 million to purchase textbooks and teachers" guides. In a country with about 11 million people, the aim is for every student to…...
The Nuclear Safety Protections in Federal Crosshairs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (755+ words) Throughout, Clawson, a member of the United Steelworkers union, leaned on safety standards to argue for extra protections against radiation, including respirators and additional shielding." But President Donald Trump's sweeping agenda to expand nuclear energy and modernize nuclear weapons now…...
The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
1+ week, 3+ day ago (610+ words) Visual: Tomozina/i Stock via Getty Images Applicants who had any questions about how to implement the policy could turn to the SABV's webpage and the ORWH's website for guidance. The ORWH's site had grown into an online resource packed…...
Book Review: How Genetics Shapes Our Ideas About Vice and Blame
1+ week, 6+ day ago (168+ words) Top: A depiction of Adam and Eve from the book "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration." Visual: Grafissimo/Digital Vision Vectors via Getty Images Once upon a time, Kathryn Paige Harden was an evangelical teenager steeped in the doctrine of original sin....
Science Communication Is Central to the Practice of Science
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (207+ words) Visual: i Stock via Getty Images SELECTIVE PRESSURE: "Exploring the collisions of science, culture, and belief. We need to live with the discomfort that we'll never have a neat answer to what a scientist is and what a scientist does....
Polygraphs Aren't Very Accurate. Are There Better Options?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1239+ words) Visual: i Stock / Getty Images Plus When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But soon,…...