Posts by David Warmflash

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David is an astrobiologist and science writer. He received his M.D. from Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, and has done post doctoral work at Brandeis University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Johnson Space Center, where he was part of the NASA's first cohort of astrobiology training fellows. He has been involved in science outreach for more than a decade and since 2002 has collaborated with The Planetary Society on studying the effects of the space environment on small organisms.

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December 29, 2014

Telomeres, Stress, and the Mediterranean Diet

Just as you must wrap the ends of a strand of dental floss around your fingers in order to clean between your teeth, chromosomes of eukaryotes (the kind of life that includes humans) must have slack...

November 23, 2014

New Genes for Your Potatoes

Over the years, we’ve gone to great lengths to make fried potato foods healthier. Potato chip makers don’t fry them in animal shortening anymore, for example, and many companies have given up using vegetable shortening (made...

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