Friends share genetic similarities

Azadeh Ansari | 
This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "You've got a friend in me." A new study published Monday ...

Human blood types remain a mystery despite a hundred years of study

Carl Zimmer | 
In 1900 the Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner first discovered blood types, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ...
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Placenta, controlled by baby’s genes, is bellwhether for fetal and maternal health

Denise Grady | 
Minutes after a baby girl was born on a recent morning at UCSF Medical Center here, her placenta — a ...
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Should TV ‘quack docs’ like Dr. Oz be regulated?

Julia Belluz | 
Dr. Mehmet Oz is a television personality with his own show, The Dr. Oz Show, focusing on medical issues and personal ...

Alzheimer’s proteins in eyes may be key to early detection

Shirley Wang | 
Efforts to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier and more cheaply are focusing on signs of the ailment in the eye and ...
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“Parallel science” of NGO advocacy groups: How post-modernism encourages pseudo-science

Marcel Kuntz | 
Political ecologists—commentators in the media and among NGO advocacy groups—like science...when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather ...
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Study claiming organic food more nutritious ‘deeply flawed’, say independent scientists

XiaoZhi Lim | 
Are organic foods better for you? A new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition appears to indicate so ...
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Cannabis Genome Project will discover medical mysteries of marijuana

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Cannabis Genome Project plans to develop a fine-grained map of cannabis genes, involving two of the main strains of cannabis, ...

Missisippi baby with HIV cured by early therapy, now positive for virus’ DNA again

Heidi Ledford | 
Two months shy of her fourth birthday, paediatricians gave the ‘Mississippi baby’ bad news: her HIV infection, seemingly vanquished by ...

In the future, brain implants will cure paralysis and disease

Kevin Bullis | 
nside the biomedical electronics lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York, Jeff Ashe, a principal engineer, holds up ...
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False positives and false promises for Alzheimer’s disease

Meredith Knight | 
A recent study claims to predict Alzheimer's disease with just a blood test. But analysis of the reported statistics show ...

Two mutatons linked to common liver cancer, may help target treatments

Two genetic mutations in liver cells may drive tumor formation in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA), the second most common form of ...

Examining California stem cell agency’s shady business ties

Pete Shanks | 
Alan Trounson, until very recently president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), has accepted a position on the ...
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Scientists look for ‘gerontogens’ substances that work with our genes to induce aging

Ed Yong | 
Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at the age of 70 while ...
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Patient with nasal tissue tumor illustrates unknowable side effects of stem cells

Meredith Knight | 
A patient at a Portuguese hospital had a nasal tissue tumor removed from the site of an eight-year-old stem cell ...

China lifts ban on prenatal genetic testing

Angela Meng | 
The mainland has lifted the controversial ban on medical diagnostic products that can help detect birth defects in unborn children ...

Kids with two mutations in HLA gene much more likely to develop celiac disease

Ricki Lewis | 
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype DR3-DQ2 is associated with dosage-dependent increases in risk for celiac disease autoimmunity and celiac disease ...

Tooth decay a genetic problem

Paul Frysh | 
Remember "The Big Book of British Smiles" from "The Simpsons"? The dentist used it to scare children into proper dental ...

Don’t pick on three-parent IVF: We already create ‘designer’ children

Olga Khazan | 
A new type of in-vitro fertilization procedure allows doctors to transfer the mitochondrial DNA from one woman into the egg ...
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Are older dads genetically risky?

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Dad's age at the time of conception increases risk of some genetically linked diseases including autism and schizophrenia. But older ...

Massachusetts biotech incentives eclipsed by competitive states

Priyanka Dayal McCluskey | 
Massachusetts has made its way over the past half-dozen years to being an undisputed leader in biotechnology and life sciences ...
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Using genetic risk and math, scientists predict which teen drinkers will develop problem

Virgina Hughes | 
Scientists have pinpointed lots of factors that increase the risk of alcohol misuse — a bit. Adolescents who are anxious ...
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Genetically engineered red blood cells could be drug delivery drones

Clare Wilson | 
Red blood cells may one day do more than carry oxygen around the body – they have been genetically engineered ...

Controversial stem cell papers finally, officially retracted

Karen Kaplan | 
Following months of controversy, editors at the scientific journal Nature have retracted two high-profile studies that purported to demonstrate a ...

Gene modification of adult cells offers more hope for Type 1 diabetes than stem cells

Salynn Boyles | 
By deleting a single gene in human gut endocrine progenitor and serotonin-producing cells, researchers reported that they were able convert ...

Developmental brain gene protects against Alzheimer’s disease

Esther Hsieh | 
More than five million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease. Scientists at Harvard Medical School and their colleagues have ...

Call for integrity for stem cell research amid global controversy

Pete Shanks | 
Scientists around the world are campaigning in favor of sensible regulation of stem-cell therapies. We have two reactions: (1) kudos ...
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