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09/21/17

Chewing gum could detect disease in saliva and deliver results via taste

Forget wearables, the hottest tech around is chewables

Kevin Pels

Chemical Biology

The Scripps Research Institute

09/20/17

Why studies that rely too much on drugs often fail to hold up

A pharmacologist argues that scientists shouldn't depend on pharmacological agents

Ana Gorelova

Molecular Pharmacology

University of Pittsburgh

09/19/17

Here's what happens to hamster brains when they don't get enough play

Play might be more important for brain development than we thought

Brooke Dulka

Behavioral Neuroscience

University of Tennessee

09/18/17

Can the right microbes really solve all your health problems?

A microbiologist explains the latest gut science

Namrata Iyer

Microbiology

Brown University

09/15/17

Five facts about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

Two decades before Sally Ride, a Soviet woman rose from obscurity to become the first female cosmonaut

Alan Yuhas

09/13/17

How stubborn data changed the way we think about money and health

The ‘Hispanic health paradox’ shows that scientists should follow the data, not their biases

Reneé Wurth

Population Health

Harvard University

09/12/17

What modern conservationists can learn from humanity's long history with rainforests

There's a growing body of evidence that humans have been modifying tropical forests for over 40,000 years

Cassie Freund

Ecology

Wake Forest University

09/08/17

Five facts about Linda Buck, olfactory pioneer

The Nobel Prize-winning biologist revolutionized how we think about our noses

Gabe Stein

09/06/17

The next revolution in food is being held up by regulation

The FDA's slow processes are keeping safe, environmentally friendly products off the shelves

Kate Krueger

Cell Biology

New Harvest

09/07/17

Dear Harvard, Berkeley, and MIT: don't patent CRISPR

Everyone should benefit from this once-in-a-lifetime discovery

Dan Samorodnitsky

Biochemistry

09/05/17

Physicist Max Tegmark explains why AI will help humanity flourish

"There's no law of physics that says we can't build machines more intelligent than we are"

Nadja Oertelt

Why GMO labeling laws won't help US consumers make better decisions

It's not if your food was modified that matters. It's how

Andrew Scarpelli

Molecular Biology

National Louis University

09/13/17

Why designer mental health drugs are still elusive

The fruitless, decade-long search for DREADDs has a silver lining

Ashley Juavinett

Neuroscience

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

09/11/17

This 3D-printed ovary could help the women left out of modern fertility technology

We're a long way from a human version, but the initial results are promising

Isabella Finco

Endocrinology

University of Michigan

09/01/17

Scientists shouldn't be punished for being wrong

"How can we design experiments that work if we don’t tell each other what doesn’t?"

Jay Bassan

Chemical Cancer Biology

University of Toronto