Fighting Climate Change Burp By Burp

In grassy fields and research labs around the world, scientists are making a herculean effort to help fight climate change: one cow burp at a time.

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A Brief History Of Genome Island, Second Life’s First Genetics Lab

Unlike WoW, the virtual world of Second Life is almost entirely user generated. By making use of a specially tailored scripting language, the ‘residents’ of Second Life...

Greg Kinnear Features In New Stand Up To Cancer PSA

Stand Up To Cancer(SU2C), a program of theEntertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), has teamed up with Eli Lilly and Company on a new colorectal cancer public service announ...

Instead Of Killing Mosquitoes, Why Don’t We Edit The Viruses Out Of Them?

In the fight against zika—the mosquito-spread virus recently declared an international public health emergency due to its potential link with a brain deformity in inf...

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Life Science Developments To Look Out For In 2016

These are exciting times for the life sciences sector as it builds on its understanding of the disease at the cellular and genetic level to usher in new and differentiated ...

Jolie Surgery Raised Breast Cancer Awareness Among Women.

Researchers at a breast cancer prevention clinic have observed an increased uptake of preventative double mastectomies since May 2013 when Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie an...

Jolie Surgery Raised Breast Cancer Awareness Among Women.

Researchers at a breast cancer prevention clinic have observed an increased uptake of preventative double mastectomies since May 2013 when Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie an...

Now That We Can Edit Cancer's Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs

The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the...