Medical Regs & Ethics
Slowing the aging process: How the Mediterranean diet preserves your chromosomal telomeres
People who stick closely to a Mediterranean diet were found to have longer telomeres—a biomarker of aging found at the ...
Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology
With the demand for food expected to double by 2050, biotechnology can lead to increased food security, as well as ...
More US clinics offering stem cell therapy, but is it safe?
Plastic surgeons, other doctors and naturopaths at more than 100 clinics round the country are charging thousands of dollars for ...
DNA of Niemann-Pick disease victims might offer clues in finding Ebola cure
Niemann-Pick is a debilitating disease that retards movement and development of an infants ability to think and reason, as if ...
Nobel Prize winner calls anti-GMO opinion ‘crime against humanity’
This is how you kick off a biotech convention: On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine Richard J. Roberts accused ...
Laboratories race to advance CRISPR research in spite of patent dispute
Last month in Silicon Valley, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3 ...
Has the Human Genome Project lived up to hype?
Just taking some notes here - relates to a discussion going on online. Would love pointers to other references relating ...
‘Ancestors in Our Genome’ explores human history through DNA
For most of us, when we think of evolution we think of Charles Darwin and natural selection. Thanks to high ...
Too many directions in Ebola research could hinder search for cure
When it comes to treatments for Ebola, there has been a nearly four-decade-long drought. Nothing in the medical arsenal attacks ...
Glyphosate used with GMO crops under attack for disrupting microbiome: Science or a gut feeling?
Despite professional science and health organizations such as the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...
Couples can protect children from devastating mutations with new IVF methods
IVF clinics are moving beyond chromosome counting to offer families a more in-depth genetic analysis of embryos before implantation. This ...
Mice with human brain cells smarter than peers
What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the ...
Anti-GMO Activism and Its Impact on Food Security
Activists have dismissed the opinions of the world’s leading scientists to undermine public trust in the benefits of GM crops ...
Are we Martians? DNA survives entry into Earth’s atmosphere–Are planets source of life?
Exposed to the high temperatures of rapid transit through the upper atmosphere, DNA, the hereditary material in all life, survives ...
Unravelling Ebola via early detection
Could monitoring the genetic activity of white blood cells be the key to catching Ebola before it becomes symptomatic and ...
First ever gene therapy drug comes at high price
The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with a 1.1 million euro ...
Paleolithic diet advocates find no support from genetics
We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our Stone Age ancestors ate may ...
DNA structure co-discoverer James Watson to sell Nobel Prize amid backlash against racial remarks
James Watson, the famed molecular biologist and co-discoverer of DNA, is putting his Nobel Prize up for auction. This sad ...
Revolutionary bioengineered trachea transplants under investigation
One of Europe’s most prestigious medical universities, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, has launched two investigations into the clinical procedures ...
Functional enzymes created from synthetic DNA
Experts say they have achieved a scientific milestone - creating enzymes out of artificial genetic material that they made in ...
Of mice and men: Comparing genetics raises new questions about reliability of rodent studies
The laboratory mouse really lies at the foundation of numerous life science studies, but is it an appropriate model in ...
Prostate screenings may lead to cancer-causing therapy
In 1970 I discovered the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, which is now the most widely used tool in prostate screenings ...
Animals steal antibiotic genes from microbes
Life on this planet has existed for at least 3.5 billion years. For most of that time, it was microscopic ...
Axing of European science czar over GMO issues: 1 step forward for Greenpeace, 2 steps back for EU and science
Since 2012, the distinguished Scottish biologist Anne Glover has served as chief scientific adviser to the President of the European ...
How missing genes can lead to novel cures
Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as PCSK9. The ...
Canada gearing up to pass law against genetic discrimination
Canada is gearing up to pass a law against genetic discrimination. How is the rest of the world dealing with ...
Gay genes discovery coming soon?
A just release paper confirms male homosexuality is associated with a particular section of the X chromosome. Researchers are convinced ...
