aweGene | 29 March
Mental health is a key ingredient of human capital, but has remained one of the most neglected areas of health. For example, countless millions of people are
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aweGene | 27 March
Recent research on longevity is making the idea of an elixir of life sound increasingly plausible. But a startup that’s started selling a $1 million anti-
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aweGene | 27 March
Where to draw the line between policing and protecting is an age-old ethical dilemma, and one that’s felt keenly when it comes to mental health.A range of
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aweGene | 26 March
The study of evolution allows us to reconstruct the past and to understand how life evolved from simple to complex organisms. Evolutionary reasoning can help
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aweGene | 25 March
In 2016, a healthy baby boy came screaming into the world in a Mexican clinic. Harboring DNA from three parents, the baby had had his genes
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aweGene | 24 March
A nightmarish scene was burnt into my memory nearly two decades ago: Changainjie, Beijing’s normally chaotic “fifth avenue,” desolate without a sign of life.
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aweGene | 24 March
A University of California, Berkeley professor stands at the front of the room, delivering her invited talk about the potential of genetic engineering. Her
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aweGene | 23 March
A movie just recently released called “Rampage” features an evil corporation using a genetic engineering technology called CRISPR, to transform a gorilla,
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aweGene | 22 March
Goldfish memoryWe’ve all heard the old warning: staring at a screen all day will rot your brain. Though it’s not quite so dramatic, there may be some truth in
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aweGene | 21 March
In many ways, we have never been less healthy. Nearly 100 million adults in the United States are obese. At any given time, almost 13 million adults
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aweGene | 20 March
Have you had your genome sequenced? If you asked this question five years ago, people would have thought you were crazy. Today, genome sequencing is already
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aweGene | 20 March
A Russian molecular biologist plans to edit human embryos using the incredibly powerful gene-editing tool known as CRISPR in a similar fashion to
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