Ketogenic Diets Alter Gut Microbiome in Humans, Mice - "Study suggests potential anti-inflammatory properties of ketone bodies via effects on gut microbial ecosystems"

New COVID-19 ‘Citizen Science’ Initiative Lets Any Adult with a Smartphone Help to Fight Coronavirus UCSF Researchers Aim to Enroll One Million Individuals for Real-Time Epidemiology

Speech-disrupting brain disease reflects patients' native tongue

Tech will soon give us precise control over our brains and genes

Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision

‘Living Fossil’ May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory: Natural Selection’s Reach Extends Beyond Genome into Epigenome, Study Suggests

Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes

In a surprising finding using the standard animal model of Down syndrome, scientists reversed the intellectual deficits, generally thought of as irreversible, with drugs that target the body’s response to cellular stresses, suggesting it may be possible to do the same in humans with Down syndrome.

After a decade of searching, the scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” — lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested — have discovered a second.

Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both mice & humans, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health & for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human prehistory .