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and some additional from my notes/tally of sources I meant to include:

Leah Remini Doesn’t Hold Back In Revealing Scientology Reddit AMA
The actress detailed horrific “physical, sexual and mental abuse” that she claimed happened within the organization.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/leah-reminis-reddit-ama-reveals-frightening-details-about-scientology_us_583f44b0e4b0c68e047ea31d

Corey Lewandowski Says Donald Trump Won The War On Christmas
“You can say it again, it’s OK to say, it’s not a pejorative word anymore.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/war-on-christmas-trump-lewandowski_us_584786c3e4b08c82e888cf30

The Kids Are All Right: Children With 3-Way DNA Are Healthy, Study Finds
"The outcomes looked uniformly good ... suggesting that no harm was done," said a doctor who reviewed the results
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/health/The-kids-are-all-right-Children-with-3-way-DNA-are-healthy--398869351.html
Three-Parent Kids Grew Up OK
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/three-parent-kids-grew-ok-n674126
original of above: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/724296102c49429e96b360e84d03c6f6/kids-are-all-right-children-3-way-dna-are-healthy

“Three-Person Babies” Should Go Ahead, Says Panel
Mitochondrial donation techniques should be adopted cautiously, according to a panel of experts convened by the regulator
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/three-person-babies-should-go-ahead-says-panel

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'We’re coming close to the point where we can create people who are superior to others' - tie in particular to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126997323
Social changes unleashed by new technologies could undermine core human values unless we engage with science, warns author
Imagine a two-tiered society with elite citizens, genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and to live longer, and an underclass of biologically run-of-the-mill humans. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the world could be sleepwalking towards this scenario, according to one of Britain’s most celebrated writers.
Kazuo Ishiguro argues that the social changes unleashed by gene editing technologies, such as Crispr, could undermine core human values.
“We’re going into a territory where a lot of the ways in which we have organised our societies will suddenly look a bit redundant,” he said. “In liberal democracies, we have this idea that human beings are basically equal in some very fundamental way. We’re coming close to the point where we can, objectively in some sense, create people who are superior to others.”
[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/02/kazuo-ishiguro-were-coming-close-to-the-point-where-we-can-create-people-who-are-superior-to-others

Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy - gene therapy
A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA.
The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder.
Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells.
So far, the therapy has worked for 15 months and the child is no longer on any medication.
[...]
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39142971
study
Gene Therapy in a Patient with Sickle Cell Disease
http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1609677

Game-Changing Gene Therapy Nullifies Patient's Sickle Cell Disease
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gamechanging-gene-therapy-nullifies-patients-sickle-cell-disease/

'Not A Cure,' But Cambridge Biotech's Gene Therapy Gets Teen With Sickle Cell Off Meds
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/03/02/gene-therapy-sickle-cell-bluebird

Molecule kills elderly cells, reduces signs of aging in mice
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/molecule-kills-elderly-cells-reduces-signs-aging-mice
study (full access) http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30246-5

Purging the body of 'retired' cells could reverse ageing, study shows
Findings raise possibility that a future therapy that rids the body of senescent cells might protect against the ravages of old age
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/23/purging-the-body-of-retired-cells-could-reverse-ageing-study-shows

Drug 'reverses' ageing in animal tests
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39354628

Convincing Cells to Die Could Make Us Stronger
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/03/23/cell-death-senescence-mice/

Low levels of simple chemical associated with aging, DNA damage
Treatment with a simple chemical restores DNA repair to aging mice.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/low-levels-of-simple-chemical-associated-with-aging-dna-damage/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/low-levels-of-simple-chemical-associated-with-aging-dna-damage/
UNSW PR https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uons-usu032217.php
Harvard PR https://phys.org/news/2017-03-scientists-critical-dna-cellular-aging.html
study http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1312

This vitamin may help repair damaged DNA, reverse ageing process
http://zeenews.india.com/health/this-vitamin-may-help-repair-damaged-dna-reverse-ageing-process-1989762

DNA repair discovery could lead to drugs to reverse ageing, fight cancer and help space travel
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-24/dna-discovery-could-lead-to-anti-ageing,-cancer-fighting-drugs/8380850

Scientists make giant leap in age-old pursuit of longer, healthier life
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/90797442/scientists-make-giant-leap-in-ageold-pursuit-of-longer-healthier-life

Anti-Ageing Drug Could Be Available To Buy In Just Three Years
Fancy living forever?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/anti-ageing-drug-could-be-available-to-buy-in-just-three-years_uk_58d4ed7be4b03692bea45e17

Scientists make MAJOR anti-ageing breakthrough… and it could help man get to MARS
SCIENTISTS have made a huge anti-ageing breakthrough with a drug - which could even help Nasa get to MARS.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/783526/anti-ageing-breakthrough-live-forever-life-on-mars

We Could Be 3 Years Away From a Pill That Reverses Aging
http://www.menshealth.com/health/anti-aging-pill-dna-damage

Can science stop YOU from aging? New drug starts human trials THIS YEAR
http://www.catholic.org/news/technology/story.php?id=74187

World's oldest fossils found in Canada, say scientists - further to http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124135233
If correct, the microfossils, thought to have formed between 3.77bn and 4.28bn years ago, offer the oldest direct evidence of and insight into life on Earth
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/worlds-oldest-fossils-found-canada-say-scientists-quebec-haematite-377bn-428bn-years
study http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7643/full/nature21377.html

Do the Quebec fossils prove that life begin much earlier than we thought?
Scientists believe they have found fossils dating back at least 3.8bn years – and they might even help us find life on other planets
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/03/do-the-quebec-fossils-prove-that-life-begin-much-earlier-than-we-thought

Canadian Bacteria-Like Fossils May Be Oldest Evidence of Life Yet
https://thewire.in/113651/canadian-bacteria-like-fossils-may-oldest-evidence-life-yet/

Astro Update: How Old Is Life On Earth
http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/astro-update-old-life-earth/

Scientists find world’s oldest fossils — and possibility of life on Mars
http://nypost.com/2017/03/01/scientists-find-worlds-oldest-fossils-and-possibility-of-life-on-mars/

Have Scientists Discovered the Earliest Fossilized Evidence of Life?
A new paper makes the bold claim that structures in rocks approaching the age of Earth itself come from ancient bacteria, but this conclusion is highly controversial.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/03/earliest-fossilized-evidence-of-life/