Articles for category: Biology & Genetics

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How to Become a Genetic Counselor Guiding People Through Genetic Testing and Disease Prevention

Maria Faith Saligumba

Genetic counseling is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of healthcare, genetics, and psychology. As technological advancements make genetic testing more accessible, the demand for skilled genetic counselors has increased. These professionals play a critical role in helping individuals and families understand genetic information and its implications for health and disease prevention. For those ...

Did You Know? What Lives in Your Gut Could Be the Future of Liver Disease Treatment

Jan Otte

Researchers have found an unlikely hero in the fight against one of the world’s most common and stubborn liver diseases, an unsuspecting gut fungus. New research suggests that Fusarium foetens, a bacterium found in the human gut, may hold the key to treating metabolic-dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), which afflicts over 1 in 4 adults ...

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine a world where the brains of long-extinct creatures—tiny insects, ancient fish, even the first animals to crawl onto land—hold the secret blueprints to tomorrow’s most advanced artificial intelligence. It sounds like a wild sci-fi plot twist, but it’s happening right now. As scientists race to build smarter machines, they’re looking backward, not just forward, ...

Aging Reveals How Fragile The Self Really Is

Aging Reveals How Fragile The Self Really Is

Andrew Alpin

  Aging has a way of stripping away the stories we tell about ourselves. The job titles, the roles, the confidence in our own bodies and memories – piece by piece, time tests all of it. What’s left can feel frighteningly bare, like seeing your reflection in harsh morning light instead of the soft, flattering ...

The Remarkable Routes: Highways in the Sky

Mapping the Evolutionary Relationships of Every Known Bird Species

April Joy Jovita

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data from nearly 300 studies published between 1990 and 2024. This groundbreaking effort provides a unified framework for understanding bird evolution, taxonomy, and ecological relationships. How Scientists Built the Evolutionary Tree   Researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...