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Patients Favor Changing the Genes of the Next Generation with CRISPR

Jeff Carroll inherited the DNA mutation that causes Huntington’s disease. It means that in a decade or two, he’ll lose control over his body and slowly go mad, just like his mother. That’s the reason Carroll, 38, says he’d be in favor of gene editing embryos. He says the鈥

It's Official: Our Purses Have Become Totally Useless

"People fail to become aware of things around them that they would otherwise notice," Ira Hyman told Mic. Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, researches our relationships with technology, including inattentional blindness in college students who use their鈥

How Do You Solve a Problem Like an Earworm?

If you are one of the 92 percent of the population who regularly experience earworms鈥攕nippets of music that pop uninvited into your head and won't go away鈥攜ou might wish there was a way to make them stop. Earworms are a generally benign form of rumination, the repetitive, intrusive thoughts鈥

草榴社区鈥檚 Joseph Trimble Co-Authors New Book 鈥楩oundations of Multicultural Psychology鈥
When it comes to mental health, a peer can be a life saver

Michael Hardie hadn鈥檛 taken a first sip of his coffee at South Lake Union鈥檚 Uptown Espresso when a young man carrying a Bluetooth speaker hurried into the cafe and stood at a nearby pillar. He was agitated, muttering to himself.

鈥淵ou doing OK?鈥 Hardie asked him. 鈥淵ou doing all right?鈥濃

Opinion: Distracted walking beomes punishable offence

Such is the state of public consciousness these days that civic authorities are now being forced to tell us how to cross the street like children, or else be punished.

B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in October drastically increased penalty points for distracted driving. The penalty鈥

Professor鈥檚 book celebrates miracle of life at La Jolla Cove
McLaughlin hosts Friday seminar on brain diseases

McLaughlin Research Institute on Friday will host speakers who will discuss two inherited, rare and fatal diseases. The seminar will be held at 11 a.m. at the MRI auditorium, 1520 23rd St S.

Jeff Carroll, Ph.D., of Western Washington University, will present "My Life in Huntington鈥

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