aweGene | 03 March
With advances in data collection, information technology and data science in the 21st century, the prospects of targeted disease prevention and precision
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aweGene | 29 February
Lizards can regrow entire limbs. Flatworms, starfish, and sea cucumbers regrow entire bodies. Sharks constantly replace lost teeth, often growing over 20,000
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aweGene | 26 February
In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of penicillin.In Sir Alexander’s acceptance remarks, he spoke of the
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aweGene | 25 February
An award-winning scientist, engineer, and millionaire several times over predicted that by 2029, humans could start living forever. That’s right.
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aweGene | 23 February
Hollywood is chockablock with movies about zombie apocalypses caused by some uncontrollable infection, while alarming real-world headlines proclaim the next
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aweGene | 21 February
Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic and expensive. It's sick care, not healthcare.But that is radically changing at an exponential
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aweGene | 21 February
For all its gene-editing prowess, mechanistically CRISPR is a bit like a power tool with a broken “off” switch.Hear me out: the entire CRISPR machinery
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aweGene | 20 February
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the
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aweGene | 20 February
The varied universes of science fiction often offer inspiration for emerging technologies, or at least fitting leads for articles to describe them. Take the
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aweGene | 19 February
In a just-published study about how our ancestral needs impact our modern feelings, researchers uncovered something that will surprise few among the
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aweGene | 19 February
The privacy of our DNA is being increasingly eroded, a phenomenon highlighted by the rash of criminal cases recently solved using publicly-accessible genomic
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aweGene | 18 February
It’s hard to watch a loved one get sick. Their eyes go glassy. Their breathing is punctuated by body-wracking coughs. Feverish and aching, they struggle to get
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