More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs

THE HUMAN GENE EDITING SUMMIT, CONT’D Citizens seeking to understand what was decided at last week’s Human Gene Editing Summit might be understandably confused by the contradictions in these headlines: Scientific community approves human gene

RIP 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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Prostate 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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Linkonomicon 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.