Medical Regs & Ethics
Ebola virus preys on human caretaking behaviors for transmission
As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has spiraled out of control, affecting thousands of Liberians, Sierra Leonians, and Guineans, ...
Ebola virus response “inadequate” to match new potential mutations
The virus poses new challenges: the possibility of mutations that would make containing its spread more difficult and fears it ...
Diet soda and sweeteners alter gut bacteria, contributing to obesity? Not so fast.
According to a just-released study in Nature, rather than helping you avoid consuming fat-producing calories, sugar-free sodas and 'diet' snacks ...
To feed hungry world, is the future of agriculture a battle between organics and GMOs?
Many activists frame the future of food as a pitched battle between organic based agroecology and crop biotechnology. But scientists ...
Advanced cancer screenings find early, slow growing cancers more often than fast aggressive ones
As cancer screenings grow more sophisticated, the chances of finding small, slow growing cancers has increased rapidly, at great cost ...
Live to be 100+? Extreme longevity research is futuristic privatized enterprise
When longevity research is privately funded, what happens when the money runs dry? ...
Neuroscience, mindfullness and reslience in school kids
For scientists the concept of psychological resilience began in the 1970s with studies of children who did fine – or ...
Some patients with genetic risk start Alzheimer’s prevention strategies in their 30s
Max Lugavere seems an unlikely patient to be sitting in an Alzheimer's clinic. The fit, 32-year-old, dressed in Converse All-Star ...
How brushing your teeth affects the microbiome of the placenta and infant
I’ve written in the past regarding some of the seminal hypotheses of how the microbiome influences our health, behavior, and ...
Love of music likely in our genes
Are you clueless about why your partner has an innate drive for music while you just cannot understand hip-hop or ...
Alzheimer’s, heart disease and other age-related conditions share risk factors and genetics
The two seemingly unrelated conditions may be driven by similar unhealthy states, including high blood pressure and diabetes. According to ...
Has Jack the Ripper been identified from DNA?
An armchair detective with a book to sell claims he has revealed Jack the Ripper's identity. His findings need to ...
First patient recieves stem-cell retina in Japan
A Japanese woman in her 70s is the world's first recipient of cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, a ...
For premature babies, epigenetics maybe link to high cholesterol later in life
It has been said that cardiovascular problems such as high blood pressure and elevated lipids have a beginning in childhood, ...
Call it what it is: Mitochondrial replacement does not a three-parent baby make
Mitochandrial replacement offers hope to families debilitated by disease. But opponents stoke fear of public by dumbing down the science ...
GLP’s Jon Entine cautions National Academy of Sciences about views of anti-science NGOs
The GLP's executive director speaks at the National Academy of Sciences, which embarks on a comprehensive study of the “purported” ...
Human enhancement upsets extremists on left and right
The prospects of a fast-approaching Age of Enhancement evokes caution in almost everyone, scientist or otherwise. It has been the ...
Engineered spleen fights sepsis
Researchers have developed a high-tech method to rid the body of infections — even those caused by unknown pathogens. A ...
New IVF technique may cut multiple births, complications
Although IVF has been used for decades and is considered very safe, the procedure does increase pregnancy risks because it ...
Genetic modification, gene therapy, insect resistance management: Evolutionary tools for sustainability
Solving societal challenges in food security, emerging diseases and biodiversity loss will require evolutionary thinking in order to be effective ...
Pipeline drugs for ovarian cancer will genetically match patients
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. You might not notice. Ovarian cancer shares the back-to-school educational National Health Observances slot with ...
What CRISPR gene editing means for San Fran biotech
A new way to make powerful changes at will to the DNA of humans, other animals and plants, much like ...
Addiction: How our genes program our preferences and habits
Just 11 genes successfully identify who is likely to have problems with alcohol abuse and who will not. Does this ...
29-year study of trillions of meals shows GE crops do not harm food-producing animals, humans
According to GMO critics, livestock around the world are developing cancer and dropping like flies after eating genetically engineered feed ...
Who owns your DNA? It’s not who you think
Recent court cases show the law favors hospitals and law enforcement rather than individuals when it comes to handing genomic ...
Common childhood kidney cancer sequenced, offering treatment target
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Medical Center, Dallas, ...
Hornless cattle make case for gene editing and less restrictive regulation of GM animals
Will new gene editing techniques that don't involve the insertion of "foreign" genes soften the opposition to genetic modification? Researchers ...
