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What the Evolution of Vitamins Means For Human Health Carl …

WebOn Tuesday I wrote a feature for the New York Times about the four-billion-year history of vitamins on Earth. Today, in my “Matter” column for the Times Today, in my “Matter” …

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The Quest to End the Flu Carl Zimmer

WebCarl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other …

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Tuberculosis Is Newer Than Thought, Study Says Carl Zimmer

WebCarl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications.In 2004, …

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A Pill to Treat Covid-19

WebLast week saw the first results of this planning. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would purchase from Merck 1.7 million doses of …

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Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us Carl Zimmer

WebA few genetically modified people already walk among us. In the mid-1990s, fertility doctors in New Jersey got an idea for how to help women have children. They …

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Evolved for Cancer

WebCarl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other …

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Gene Linked to Obesity Hasn’t Always Been a Problem, Study …

WebAmong scientists who study how our DNA affects our weight, a gene called FTO stands out. “It’s the poster child for the genetics of obesity,” said Struan F. Grant, an associate …

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Air Pollution, Evolution, and the Fate of Billions of Humans

WebOver a billion people add toxins to their lungs by smoking cigarettes — and more recently, by vaping. Ninety-two percent of the world’s people live in places where …

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First, a Vaccine Approval. Then ‘Chaos and Confusion.’ Carl Zimmer

WebThe United States may be within months of a profound turning point in the country’s fight against the coronavirus: the first working vaccine.. Demonstrating that a new vaccine …

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Geneticist Craig Venter helped sequence the human genome. Now …

WebSTAT, November 5, 2015 Link. I f you enter Health Nucleus, a new facility in San Diego cofounded by J. Craig Venter, one of the world’s best-known living scientists, you will get …

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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand Mysterious DNA …

WebCarl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other …

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The Origins of the Covid Pandemic: What We Know and Don’t Know

WebWASHINGTON — Long after the Covid pandemic emerged from Wuhan, the origin of the coronavirus remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny, and even more …

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Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden Carl Zimmer

WebThe baby’s microbiome continues to grow during breast-feeding. In a study of 16 lactating women published last year, Katherine M. Hunt of the University of Idaho and …

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A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re …

WebThe New York Times, July 30, 2023 Link It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born so helpless? In 1960, an American

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‘Global Greening’ Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It’s Terrible.

WebCarl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. Here you can read articles he's written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other …

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Growing Pains for Field of Epigenetics as Some Call for Overhaul

WebIn May, Duke University researchers claimed that epigenetics could explain why people who grow up poor are at greater risk of depression as adults.Even more provocative studies …

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Fight over Covid’s origins renews debate on risks of lab work

WebThe New York Times, June 20, 2021 (with James Gorman) Link. At a Senate hearing on efforts to combat Covid-19 last month, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky asked Dr. …

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New Covid Pills Offer Hope as Omicron Looms Carl Zimmer

WebNew Covid Pills Offer Hope as Omicron Looms. The New York Times, December 7, 2021. As the world worries that the Omicron coronavirus variant may cause …

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Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests

WebSmaller studies in the past had already offered some support for Williams’s theory. In 2007, for example, a team of researchers studying a tiny worm found a pair of …

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Science Writing: Guidelines and Guidance Carl Zimmer

WebScience Writing: Guidelines and Guidance. These are notes for a class called “Writing about Science, Medicine, and the Environment,” which I have taught for several years at …

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New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin

WebLink. Scientists released a pair of extensive studies over the weekend that point to a large food and live animal market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the …

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