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Here's what we know about CRISPR safety – and reports of 'genome vandalism'

  • Written by Jianhua Luo, Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
A standee of the movie 'Rampage' at a theater in Bangkok, Thailand. Scientists in the film used CRISPR to create a monster.By Sarunyu L/shutterstock.com

A movie just recently released called “Rampage” features Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson using a genetic engineering technology called CRISPR, to transform a gorilla, among other...

Read more: Here's what we know about CRISPR safety – and reports of 'genome vandalism'

Does Monsanto's Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving a link

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
Guilty or innocent?Mike Mozart, CC BY

Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at issue now in a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court. Hundreds more claims have been cleared to proceed in a federal multi-district lawsuit.

Much of this litigation is based on a 2015...

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Trump administration and California are on collision course over vehicle emissions rules

  • Written by Meredith Hankins, Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, University of California, Los Angeles
California and the Trump administration are going different directions on mileage standards.AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

The Trump administration on Aug. 2 formally announced a proposal to freeze fuel economy standards and tailpipe emission standards for new cars. In addition, it is proposing to revoke California’s authority to set more...

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¿Por qué duelen tanto las cortadas con papel?

  • Written by Gabriel Neal, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Texas A&M University
Un niño que sufrió una cortada con papel.Suzanne Tucker/Shutterstock.com

Piense, por un instante, en lo que significa una cortada con papel.

Por lo general, ocurre de manera repentina e inesperada y cuando ya has llegado a ese punto de una labor que había estado aplazando. Rememore la sensación de alivio que...

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Lawyers defending immigrant children in detention are relying on a court case from the 80s

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
An immigrant child looks out from a U.S. Border Patrol bus.AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have brought an old court case back to life in defense of immigrant children at the border, often referred to as “the Flores settlement.”

The case, which was filed in 1985 and settled in 1997,...

Read more: Lawyers defending immigrant children in detention are relying on a court case from the 80s

Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? And if it does, what happens to abortion rights?

  • Written by B. Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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For people who care about abortion rights, these are worrying times.

Of course, pro-choice advocates began losing sleep the minute Donald Trump was elected. During the 2016 presidential election, Trump claimed that Roe v. Wade – the 1973 landmark decision establishing that women have a constitutional right to access abortion – would...

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Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence

  • Written by Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego
New suicide data indicates that years of record bloodshed in Mexico have traumatized residents in places where the violence is most concentrated. Reuters/Jorge Lopez

Mexico has suffered one of the world’s highest murder rates for over a decade, a consequence of the government’s aggressive, 12-year-long battle against drug trafficking...

Read more: Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme, chronic violence

Genetic testing: Should I get tested for Alzheimer's risk?

  • Written by Troy Rohn, Professor of Biology, Boise State University
Genetic testing is available to people who want to know if they carry a variant of a gene that confers susceptibility for Alzheimer's. But knowing whether to get tested is hard. Billion Photos/Shutterstock.com

Thanks to advances in genetic testing, there is now a way for consumers to test for the greatest genetic risk factor for late-onset...

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What is a blockchain token?

  • Written by Stephen McKeon, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Oregon
What's this digital token good for, anyway?knipsdesign/Shutterstock.com

People are just becoming acquainted with the idea of digital money in the form of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, where transactions are recorded on a secure distributed database called a blockchain. And now along comes a new concept: the blockchain-based token, which I’ve...

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A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires

  • Written by Michael Kodas, Deputy Director, Center for Environmental Journalism, University of Colorado
Firefighters hose down flames from an advancing wildfire July 28, 2018, in Redding, Calif. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California, the Carr Fire in Shasta County has scorched more than 100,000 acres, and the Ferguson Fire has drive...

Read more: A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires

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  2. Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms
  3. From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of rogue gun makers
  4. Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers' role in evolution
  5. Alan Alda living with Parkinson's – a neurologist explains treatment advances
  6. New sanctions on Russia and Iran are unlikely to work. Here's why
  7. The infantilization of Western culture
  8. Overhydrating presents health hazards for young football players
  9. The demise of US nuclear power in 4 charts
  10. Parts of the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia fault are more seismically active than others – new imaging data suggests why
  11. Is Trump profiting from his office in violation of the Constitution? Judge allows emoluments case to move ahead
  12. What the early church thought about God's gender
  13. Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on child development
  14. Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right to vote
  15. Niños centroamericanos siguen migrando a EEUU porque huyen de la muerte
  16. Iran and America: A forgotten friendship
  17. A new look at racial disparities in police use of deadly force
  18. The lifesaving power of gratitude (or, why you should write that thank you note)
  19. American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist explains
  20. More Republicans in the news? That's not media bias
  21. Designing a 'solar tarp,' a foldable, packable way to generate power from the sun
  22. What Richard Dawkins doesn't get about the Muslim call to prayer
  23. For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of 'halal' 
  24. A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control
  25. ¿Para qué sirven las fronteras?
  26. Imran Khan hopes to transform Pakistan but he'll have far less power than past leaders
  27. Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story
  28. Could your gut microbes hinder your cancer treatment? A new first-in-human trial investigates
  29. Why fewer kids work the kind of summer jobs that their parents used to have
  30. I’m an economist riding a bike across America, defying what the data says about cycling's safety
  31. Arrested development: Can we improve cardiac arrest survival in hospitals?
  32. What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?
  33. Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches
  34. Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users' minds
  35. After summit Russians like Trump more, Americans less
  36. How the Russian government used disinformation and cyber warfare in 2016 election – an ethical hacker explains
  37. The thrill of curing hepatitis C and the pain of watching the disease surge with opioid abuse
  38. A cooler ocean predator than sharks? Consider the mantis shrimps
  39. 5 reasons why Venezuela's nightmare could get worse
  40. Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes, new study shows
  41. Who chooses abortion? More women than you might think
  42. Apartments rarely come with access to charging stations. But electric vehicles need them
  43. What is a 'poison pill'?
  44. Families at the border are reunited briefly, if at all
  45. With hacking of US utilities, Russia could move from cyberespionage toward cyberwar
  46. Is Trump winning his trade war with Europe?
  47. El programa mexicano que intenta reducir la pobreza de mujeres beneficia más a sus maridos
  48. Don't lose sleep over it: Even if you don't get enough shut-eye, most fixes are easy
  49. Haiti’s deadly riots fueled by anger over decades of austerity and foreign interference
  50. Supreme Court struggles to define 'searches' as technology changes