Category Archives: Bora Zivkovic
More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs
Posted by bioethics, Bora Zivkovic, cranial, CRISPR, CRISPR/Cas9, dogs, eugenics, Evolution, featured, fraud, gene editing, genetic disease, genetic engineering, Genome, Genomics, GMO, health care, Human Evolution, media criticism, muscular dystrophy, On Science Blogs, Politics, pruning, Research, Science Magazine, united states, women
inRIP ScienceOnline, cave art in Indonesia is as old as European cave art, how human were Neandertals?
This just in: RIP ScienceOnline (#scioX) ScienceOnline, which for the past few years has run the small annual meeting in North Carolina that brought together a disparate bunch of scientists and science groupies, most of them bloggers, is no more. … Continue reading
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Posted by Bora Zivkovic, brain, cave art, Chauvet cave, Europe, hand stencil, Homo sapiens, indonesia, language, Neandertal, Neanderthal, paleoanthropology, Rock-art, ScienceOnline, Sulawesi
inProstate cancer screening dispute, microbiome hype
Once more, screening for prostate cancer
It’s pretty much conventional wisdom among the experts that routine prostate cancer screening for the prostate-specific antigen can cause more harm than good. The recent results of the European study of routine PSA screening …
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Posted by Bora Zivkovic, Genetic Literacy Project, Genome, Genomics, health care, human microbiome, Knight Science Journalism Tracker, media criticism, medical journalism, microbes, microbiome, obesity, On Science Blogs, prostate cancer, PSA screening, Research, science blogging, Science Journalism, screening
inLinkonomicon 15
1. Skin cream from ancient Rome – via Michele Banks.
2. Jerry Coyne on epigenetics, right but crotchety.
3. The life, times, and hugs of Bora Zivkovic.
4. This is just, uh…WOW! – via Alex Wild.
5. Need a 3D printer for your kids’ art supplies? The internet has solved that .- via Maria Popova.
Posted by Bora Zivkovic, Epigenetics, Evolution, Items of Interest, Jerry Coyne, rome
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