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More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.

It’s not just what makes males into males. The sex chromosome also influences health in hidden ways, some experts believe, and may even explain why men have shorter life spans.

“We’ve identified a central issue that, when eliminated, allows for survival without sleep, at least in fruit flies... We need to understand the biology of how sleep deprivation damages the body, so that we can find ways to prevent this harm."

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Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk.

The pathogen is proving a familiar adage: The dose makes the poison.

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Just as household bacteriologists used kitchen experiments to instruct ordinary Americans about germs, so too can we reproduce these experiments to let students discover the complexities of turn-of-the-century germ theory for themselves.

Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes.