Medical Regs & Ethics

The idea of genes being crossed from different species into another — the “Frankenfood” myth—may sound strange and “unnatural” when it is ...

Dozens of experiments by companies and academic institutions all over the world are using techniques to insert genes in the ...

Malnutrition seems like an intuitive problem: you don’t eat enough food, so your health suffers. But it’s not that simple ...

Two weeks ago, I girded my loins and wrote a column endorsing genetically engineered food. The spate of fist-shaking, chest-thumping ...

It seemed too good to be true — a $4.99 cellphone app that could help you figure out if moles ...

Three years ago, biologist Bastian Greshake spit in a vial and sent it off to personal genomics company 23andMe for ...

Bionic hands are go. Three men with serious nerve damage had their hands amputated and replaced by prosthetic ones that ...

While any tobacco is harmful if smoked, there's a kind of tobacco that's being put to positive use—namely, the use ...

Police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect in a murder investigation. In what may ...

The UCLA Health System announced earlier this week that seven patients—two of whom died—became infected by highly drug-resistant bacteria that ...

The latest research shows how eating disorders, and anorexia in particular, produce a cascade of physical and mental effects, including ...

The World Health Organization has approved the first rapid test for Ebola in a potential breakthrough for ending an epidemic ...

On February 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier test for Bloom ...

The British YouTube rationalist and renowned ex-BBC Radio 4 and CBC science reporter with a degree in geology debunks pseudoscience, ...

Given the complexity of pregnancy, taking all evidence-based precautions against preterm birth is a wise course of action. But it ...

If you think you’re getting accurate science from Fox News’ Sunday Housecall, you may want to think again. A segment they ...

This daily ordeal, among other irrational behaviors I suffered, was physically and emotionally exhausting, yet it wouldn't subside until I ...

Human stem cells engineered to produce renewable sources of mature, liver-like cells can be grown and infected with malaria to ...

It's called the "naturalist fallacy". Naturalist beliefs that seeds or foods developed in part by scientists, often working in laboratories, ...

Neuron activity is used as everything from an indicator of our most fundamental impulses to a model for computers, but ...

 The Toronto Star, Canada's highest-circulation daily newspaper, has built a reputation for excellent investigative reporting, including justly celebrated exposes of Toronto Mayor ...

When a Jewish couple is planning their wedding or anticipating starting a family, they probably aren’t thinking much about rare ...

Which chapter came first? Was it the genetic predilection for alcohol that created [Barbar's] lifestyle (pure chaos) and environment (streets, shelters, hotels)? ...

The final story of Bob Simon's brilliant journalism career put him in the middle of a GMO controversy--the use of ...

A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...

For the first time, researchers have proved that the order in which cancer genes mutate affects the type of malignancy ...

She is the closest thing to a hometown medical examiner that a city of eight million people could really expect ...