Epigenetics matter – a lot. It’s chemistry in way – it’s about external factors creating reactions that cause sections of your DNA to do...

Imagine growing hamburgers. No cows. Just meat growing in a lab. Or a meat factory. The vision is real. In fact, the first hamburger is...

Epigenetics and toxins are subjects of ever-increasing research and findings demonstrating harms to offspring, especially when a fetus is...

The front page of the NYT this morning is dominated by a mosaic picture of 60 people who form a chain of 60 lives and 30 kidney...

People sometimes take science in the wrong direction. In that vein, consider a blog post from Jennifer K. Wagner at the University of...

The world cannot afford major diseases, and should be investing heavily in science. Yet, in the US, we see "budget hawks" blindly arguing...

Tuesday was an especially good day for science in the US. One positive was the Administration announcing an additional $ 50 million of...

History and science include stories of too many inhumane "experiments" undertaken by old white guys perhaps convinced the ends would...

Here’s some incentive to stick with that resolution to exercise more often. Researches in Boston at Dana-Farber have made it into Nature...

How is that we so readily and unintentionally find images of "faces" in clouds, tree bark and myriad other locations? Some of the...

As the $1,000 genome is arriving, so are print editions of the third edition of theReference Manual on Scientific Evidence. As a...

Not so many years ago, my sister was a bench scientist sequencing genes by hand. One weekend, she mentioned that she and others from Salk...

Thinking about New Year’s Resolutions? Please consider two that may actually save a human life. Both resolutions are easy to fulfill. For...

As year end 2011 arrives, a powerful and popular book is Thinking Fast and Slow, by 2002 Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a research...

Various authors, including Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, are mentioning a January 2012 book on how economics shapes the ways that...

For hundreds of years, scientists assumed that only the dose made the poison, and that more was always worse. Scientists also paid scant...

Here is good news for current and future victims of dread diseases and injuries – the EU has rejected patents on embryonic stem cells....

For scientists, data is key. So, it’s relevant to note that we are close to the day of commercially managed but freely accessible DNA...

This post on the Patent Doc blog brings the news that legislators in Australia are seeking to amend the patent statutes to explicitly...

Nobel Prize week started today with the prize in Medicine shared among three researchers who made fundamental discoveries about the...