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Doctors harvested Henrietta Lacks’ cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that a Waltham-based biotechnology company has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the cell line became known.

...the paper draws five conclusions: (1) It is not analytical thinking per se, but analytical thinking directed to evaluating the truth that safeguards us from believing or spreading fake news. (2) While psychological factors can distract us from exercising analytical thinking and they can also distract us in exercising...

Aemelia Ars needle lace is an old needle lace style originationg out of Balogna, Italy. I had the chance to learn some at the 2023 IOLI in Sparks, Nevada. ...

House Republicans used an oversight hearing to accuse former NIH officials Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins of complicity in the COVID pandemic. The loser in this cabaret is science.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: CONNOLLY CALLS IT — Mike Connolly isn’t giving Boston’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter the chance to kick him out.

Scientists welcomed this week’s draft proposal, which aims to accelerate research boosting the resilience of crops to climate change, pests, and diseases, and to develop plants that require fewer fertilizers.

“This (book) came back in extremely good condition," New Bedford Public Library Director Olivia Melo said Friday.

Members of Michael Protzman’s conspiracy cult abandoned their families and spent their life savings to follow him to Trump rallies around the country.

“Right up until the very end, she believed in what she saw and she wanted to help other people who had experienced something similar,” Claudia Ackley’s partner said.

Police are searching for the person who attacked a woman while she was taking a walk in Medford Sunday night. [Main St. at Royall St]

(June 2023) - We estimate the impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on countrywide yields, harvested area, and trade using a triple-differences rollout design that exploits variation in the availability of GM seeds across crops, countries, and time. We find positive impacts on yields, especially in poor countries. Our...

We believe that the scientific community can therefore be cautiously optimistic based on current trends that gene editing will be accepted by the public and be able to achieve its promise of making a substantial contribution to future food security and environmental sustainability worldwide.

CRISPR enhances vitamin D in new gene edited tomatoes.

A new member of the Fremont community, but not a new at all to the Bay Area, is the Lace Museum that will be reopening its doors in Fremont for the first time on Mothers' Day weekend. Lace is an art and artifact that finds it place in the stories ...

Elena Kanagy-Loux traveled to France recently, for a course in polychrome, and documented her trip.

Anti-establishment pundits are predictably whatabout-ing their way into supporting the pudding brain candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

My review of this helpful ID book. People often ask for a good one to check on their acquisitions, and this one is reasonably priced and accessible.

Controls could be eased on plants ranging from wheat able to withstand drought to fungus-resistant tomatoes

As the social media site matures, its users and moderators have made their displeasure about corporate changes known, putting the company into a bind.

The school announced Thursday that the building will be closed through the 2024 school year. | Yikes--that piece of concrete would have taken out several 4th graders....

The treatment from Sarepta Therapeutics was approved Thursday for children ages 4 and 5 with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare muscle-wasting disease that causes early death.

One day, one passion. Lace makers from all around the world unite.