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Lee Cooper
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May 29, 2018
DNA Is Overrated
Genes play a refreshingly limited role in Carl Zimmer’s new book about heredity.
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Stephanie Pappas
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Apr 26, 2018
Death Is Weirder Than You Think
Why do some genes get more active when life ends?
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David Ewing Duncan
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Apr 5, 2018
Is the World Ready for Synthetic People?
Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans.
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Lee Cooper
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Feb 15, 2018
The Language of DNA Should Rewrite English, Too
Jargon from the pre-genomics era blinds us to new possibilities.
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Anna Nowogrodzki
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Feb 15, 2018
Blockchains Won’t Fix the Problem with Genomics
If you’ve been waiting to get your genome sequenced…
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Steven Kotler
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Feb 1, 2018
The Human Operating System Gets an Overhaul
Forget editing genes. This guy wants to write brand-new…
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Grace Rubenstein
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Jan 18, 2018
Power to the Patients
Racing against his own genetic disorder, Onno Faber is giving people with rare…
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Julia Faith Sklar
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Jan 4, 2018
Women Finally Get the Fertility Test They Deserve
A trailblazing genetic scan could bring the tools of precision medicine to a woefully understudied field.
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Dec 26, 2017
NEO.LIFE’s 10 Most Popular Stories in 2017
Maverick scientists, a blissful free diver, and (of course)…
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Yiting Sun
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Nov 2, 2017
China Doubles Down on the Double Helix
From sleepless startups to huge sequencing centers, genomics is booming in China. Will other countries get left behind?
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