Medical Regs & Ethics
New therapy advances lung cancer treatment, personalized medicine
Small RNA molecules, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), offer tremendous potential as new therapeutic agents to inhibit ...
Should Myriad make breast cancer data available for clinical research?
Myriad Genetics may have lost its singular hold on the market for BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing in May 2013 when ...
Blood-forming stem cells produced in laboratory for potential use in cancer treatment
Scientists in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, have discovered how the body produces blood-forming stem cells which exist in bone marrow ...
Is epigenetics being exploited by the media?
Epigenetics has seen a flurry of research and headlines lately, achieving science-buzzword status. But is the immature nature of the ...
Africa on GMOs: Scientific response to anti-technology NGOs
More than half of the acreage of genetically modified crops in the world is in the developing world, where the ...
What’s the difference between denying the scientific consensus on vaccines vs GMOs?
The science on GMOs is as solid and authoritative as it is on vaccines. So why are liberal outlets like ...
How ancient humans can help us better understand ourselves
For 200,000 years, modern humans have walked the earth. How did we become what we are today? In answering this ...
CRISPR technology successfully targets HPV
Researchers have hijacked a defense system normally used by bacteria to fend off viral infections and redirected it against the ...
Can stem cells aid in brain recovery after stroke?
Five patients received the treatment in a pilot study conducted by doctors at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and scientists at Imperial ...
Harvard stem cell scientist takes sabbatical following fraud scandal
Charles Vacanti, a Harvard anesthesiologist and stem cell pioneer whose name appeared on both retracted STAP stem cell papers, is ...
3D “jelly doughnut” models brain, may prove vital to future research
A doughnut created in a lab and made of silk on the outside and collagen gel where the jelly ought ...
CRISPR corrects mutant gene for incurable blood disorder
The genome-editing method involving CRISPR and Cas9 has been called into duty for a wide variety of jobs, from cutting integrated HIV ...
Video: Appetite control and emotion arise from similar brain areas
Relatively few neurons, only thousands, control appetite in a brain region linked to inhibition, fear and emotion according to a ...
Brain breakthrough: Genome-wide association studies herald advances in treating mental disorders
Nothing is more challenging to science, or potentially more heartbreaking, than mental illness. The human brain remains inscrutable. But recent ...
New technologies advance fight against infectious disease
Twenty years ago, at the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, Claire Fraser became one of the first ...
Quest for answers on aging and longevity
Frailty is a common condition associated with old age, characterized by weight loss, weakness, decreased activity level and reduced mobility, ...
Your brain is making subliminal, near-instantaneous judgements of people based on their faces
Your brain is making a snap judgement on the trustworthiness of each stranger you see based on their faces -- ...
Amid focus on curing illness, concern over treatment of disabled in society
I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed.The happy family lunch, then the ...
GMOs + tobacco = life saving vaccines
Plants could act as safe, speedy factories for personalized treatments against a common form of cancer, according to recent findings ...
Taking ancestry into account with personalized medicine
A study of Mexican genetics reveals staggering diversity. In an increasingly globalized world, with human populations mixing at unprecedented rates, ...
Cancer genomes to enter private practice
New technology promises quick turn around for cancer genome testing, but do we understand tumor DNA well enough to capitalize? ...
‘Quack’ American Academy of Environmental Science issues false statements about GMO safety
I write in response to Donna Worden’s letter of July 12. I was surprised by the citing of the American Academy ...
How nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine
In a 1959 lecture at Caltech famously dubbed “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” American physicist and Nobel laureate–to-be ...
Are bacterial disease epidemics triggered by environmental changes?
Researchers have traced genetic changes in a bacterial pathogen over 450 years, and claim that epidemics of bacterial disease in ...
Mutation may be responsible for diabetes risk in Mexican population
A research team directed by Dr. Karol Estrada analyzed genetic sequencing of 8000 Mexicans and found a mutated gene related ...
Only need four hours of sleep per night? New-found ‘Thatcher’ gene mutation may explain why
Do you have a friend who can get by on just a few hours of sleep without any ill effects? ...
GMO tobacco ‘mystery serum’ rescues Ebola virus victims
Two American healthcare workers infected with Ebola virus in Liberia received an experimental antibody serum created with genetically engineered tobacco ...
