Medical Regs & Ethics

Just recently, the largest twin study to date examining genes’ influence on homosexuality was published in the journal Psychological Medicine ...

For most us, the scientific promise associated with understanding the human genome exists in uneasy tension with the quiet terror ...

Domestic cats have a reputation as being "marginally tame and lacking in the servile sycophantic affect of the dog." Added ...

Apple’s and Facebook’s announcement last month that they would offer $20,000 health insurance coverage to women employees to cover the ...

A large study of gay brothers adds to evidence that genes influence men's chances of being homosexual, but the results ...

Where did the Jews originate? For Bennett Greenspan, the founder and president of Family Tree DNA, there’s little doubt, and ...

Ben & Jerry's has taken the lead among self-proclaimed 'socially responsible' firms in criticizing GMOs and attempting to remove any ...

Interest in personal genomics sites that provide insight into the link between your genes and disease proclivities is booming. But ...

Cancer screening have helped save many of lives, but have shifted the demographics of who gets the disease. Should we ...

Research on the brain is surging. The United States and the European Union have launched new programs to better understand ...

Google recently promised to develop early-detection technology for cancer, heart disease and strokes. While early diagnosis might seem like a ...

Charlatans like Food Babe, Dr. Oz, Joseph Mercola, and Vandana Shiva represent everything disgraceful about unscientific propaganda. Cancer misinformation is ...

Google will soon start covering the cost of Foundation Medicine's DNA tests for employees and their family-members suffering from cancer, ...

A group of scientists including three Nobel laureates in medicine has proposed that U.S. health officials chart a new path ...

Historically, the science of epidemiology was directed toward identifying and controlling epidemics of infectious disease. In a study just published ...

When the first animals scrambled out of the water to live on land, they needed limbs and lungs. And something ...

From Ebola to breast cancer screenings, people have a difficult time understanding where their health risks truly lie. Our emotional ...

Before I was scheduled for a double mastectomy at the age of 60, I knew I was infinitely blessed: The ...

To treat victims of snakebites, it's important to know which type of snake did the biting. Now, a new test ...

A major California university hospital is exploring ways to gather and use genetic information gathered from cancer patients, hoping to ...

When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, ...

In Canada, doctors are challenging legally-held patents on genes. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has taken the case to ...

More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...

Many studies (e.g., here) have broached the topic of the taste and ‘quality’ of organic food versus conventional. Robustly, The ...

Researchers have created a simple saliva test capable of diagnosing diabetes and cancer, and perhaps neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, at ...

For the first time, scientists have made lab-grown stomachs in a petri dish. The feat was accomplished at the Cincinnati ...

Today, the Frankenstein story is invoked in exactly the opposite way that Shelley wrote it - it is invoked as ...