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Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

New York Times 27 Aug 2025
A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism ... .
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How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout

New York Times 25 Aug 2025
The genome of a small, remarkable sea horse offers a surprising lesson in nature’s creativity ... .
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Heredity is only the start of what makes a 'super ager'

The Indiana Times 24 Aug 2025
At 73, Andrew Esfakis says he’s still living like he’s 30. “I work out every day, work, go home, coach Little League. I do everything I did 40 years ago,” the Schererville resident says ... .
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Scientists Split Giraffes Into Four Species. Three Are In Trouble.

New York Times 22 Aug 2025
A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new study concludes ... .
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Vaping, hookah and heredity: The new-age triggers for lung cancer

The Times of India 01 Aug 2025
Vaping ... Many researchers now say that vaping is not harmless by any means ... The social aspect of hookah also makes it more likely to catch respiratory infections, which further weaken lungs.Heredity.
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What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato

New York Times 31 Jul 2025
An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests ... .
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Scientists are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

New York Times 31 Jul 2025
In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do ... .
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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.

New York Times 22 Jul 2025
The face of lung cancer — once older men with a history of smoking — has changed ... .
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Obesity Prediction Could Be Guided by Genetic Risk Scores

New York Times 21 Jul 2025
Researchers hope that a better understanding of which genes contribute to excess weight could help with prevention starting in childhood ... .
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Hollywood’s Master of Dread Is Afraid of … Everything

New York Times 16 Jul 2025
Ari Aster, the man behind some of Hollywood’s most unsettling films, takes his own anxiety and puts it onscreen ... .
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A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us

New York Times 09 Jul 2025
In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia ... .
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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment

New York Times 07 Jul 2025
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure ... .
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How a Group of Grandmothers Revealed the Painful Truth About Argentina’s Past

New York Times 04 Jul 2025
Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Milei’s government is imperiling that ... .
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How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing

New York Times 04 Jul 2025
Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains ... .
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