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As civil discourse online and off increasingly proves elusive, a website devoted to identifying plants and animals may be teaching humans how to get along.
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biobricks writes:
Scientists looking for clues to healthy longevity in people in their 90's and 100's haven't turned up a whole lot. The DNA of the VERY old, it is thought, may be a better bet. But people over 110 are one in five million in the United States. New York Times science story chronicles one scientific quest to collect their DNA.
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biobricks writes:
New York Times covers cryonics and destructive mind uploading, with some news on brain preservation research that actually sounds promising.
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New York Times reports on how the county council on the Big Island of Hawaii banned GMOs. The story is told through the eyes of one lonely councilman's struggle with the left-wing forces of anti-science and fear mongering in genetic engineering
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NY Times story says the Florida orange crop is threatened by an incurable disease and traces the efforts of one company to insert a spinach gene in orange trees to fend it off. Not clear if consumers will go for it though.
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People who could benefit from genetic testing are too afraid their health insurance companies are going to raise their rates or deny them coverage to find out the health information contained in their own genes, the New York Times is reporting. There is a growing "genetic underground" where people pay for their own tests so they won't have to share the results with insurers, and beg their doctors not to divulge their genetic status in their medical records. A bill that would ban genetic discrimination by insurers and employers — and presumably make people feel safer about taking care of their health — is stalled in the Senate.
