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Watch Out For Those Genetically Modified Hamburger Buns!

By Keith Kloor

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

In this space, I've frequently shown how GMO fear mongering plays out in the media. The latest frightful example aired Monday on CNN. It was a piece about the mysterious genetically modified (GM) wheat recently found in an Oregon farm field. First, ...

MORE ABOUT: agriculture, biotechnology, genetically modified food, gmos, wheat

GENE EXPRESSION

A true global village: the end of privacy in so many ways

By Razib Khan

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Gina Kolata's piece in The New York Times, Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy, is stirring a lot of debate. In the wake of the NSA leaks that makes sense. And genetic privacy has always been a "hot button" issue for obvious reasons, as personal genomics...

MORE ABOUT: privacy

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High Tech World Triggers a Modern-Day Syndrome

By Keith Kloor

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Oh, for the days: Remember when everyone used to be really, really worried about power lines? youtube.com/watch?feature=… — Ketan Joshi (@ArghJoshi) June 13, 2013 Those were worried Australians in the mid-2000s, so it wasn't all that long ago. In t...

MORE ABOUT: cancer, science, technology, electromagnetic sensitivity

GENE EXPRESSION

The dog days of evolutionary genomics

By Razib Khan

Sunday, June 09, 2013

It's an exciting time for those interested in the evolutionary genomics of the dog. In 2010 a big SNP-array paper came out, Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication. Today we're going whole genome, w...

MORE ABOUT: dog evolution, dog domestication

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FROM THE JULY/AUGUST 2013 ISSUE

Graphene and Nanotubes Will Replace Silicon in Tomorrow's Nano-Machines

By Doug Stewart

Physicist and novelist Paul McEuen says one day nanobots will carry medicine through your bloodstream and rebuild your brain's circuitry.

FROM THE JUNE 2013 ISSUE

Catching Cosmic Rays by the Tail

By Corey S. Powell

The Super-TIGER experiment earns its stripes 25 miles above the South Pole, collecting samples of distant stars – and possibly evidence of a black hole much closer to home.