Medical Regs & Ethics
A progressive looks for common ground in the GMO debate
Skeptics of GM food should come to grips with the fact that the act of genetic manipulation is itself not ...
Double mastectomies halve death rate for BRCA1 or BRCA2 breast cancer patients
Woman with a genetic form of breast cancer who have double mastectomies are nearly 50 per cent less likely to ...
Full genome sequencing is medically promising, but still expensive
Genome sequencing holds great potential for diagnosing diseases, finding treatments and ultimately cutting medical costs, experts say, but insurance companies ...
Latest on rewriting genomes, humans’ included
A genetic modification system, CRISPR/Cas, has shown breakthrough success in primates and is poised to make the futurists' dreams of ...
Preparing for the inevitable: DNA tests for newborns
Today, parents don't need to deal with the knowledge of genetic pitfalls that might lie ahead for their offspring. But ...
New York City student ancestry project to analyze DNA
“I’m part Neanderthal,” Rachel Bruton, a member of National Geographic’s Explorer Programs team, told Medical Daily. “I consider it bragging ...
Americans both excited and worried by advances in DNA research
Most Americans are excited about the possibility of scientific breakthroughs brought by DNA research, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But ...
Sleeping too much, or not enough, increases genetic risk of depression
Two new studies published in the journal Sleep have found a link between sleep duration and depression. “Healthy sleep is ...
Epigenetic changes needed to regenerate nerves
To regenerate after injury, a nerve cell must turn on gene programs that have been silenced since development. Epigenetic modifications, ...
23andMe pushes on with genetic research
Researchers have gained more insight into the genetic risk factors for asthma with hay fever thanks to consumer genetic testing ...
Environmentalists’ stance on GMOs betrays progressive values
It is obviously inconsistent on the part of environmental groups such as Greenpeace to trumpet the importance of the worldwide ...
Were Neanderthals a different species?
Up to 40% of the Neanderthal genome may be preserved across our collective genomes, and the areas of the human ...
Misplaced fears of identical diseases links anti-GMOers to anti-technology fringe groups
GMOs, vaccines, chemtrails, fluoride, all have remarkably similar suites of disease "side effects" according to anti-technology critics. The same scare ...
Should the FDA take a libertarian view of personal genomics?
Geneticists, lawyers, students and industry experts packed into a conference room on Stanford's campus this week to discuss the ethics ...
Acid bath turns adult cells into stem cells
Japanese researchers report transforming adult cells into a flexible, embryonic state via a surprisingly simple method of exposing the cells ...
CRISPR can create viable, genetically modified monkeys
Researchers at Nanjing Medical University and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research in Kunming, China, have created genetically modified ...
Acid bath reverts adult cells to pluripotent state
A little stress is all it took to make new life from old. Adult cells have been given the potential ...
23andme finds genes for asthma (with hay fever)
23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, has participated in the first ever genome-wide association study of the combined asthma-with-hay fever ...
Entrepreneur of next-gen gene therapy
If you’re in the business of drug discovery, you’ve got to be ready for the long haul. One recent study ...
FBI review of national database finds errors in DNA profiles
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has identified nearly 170 profiles that probably ...
Is 2014 the year of the thousand-dollar genome?
For this “TechKnow,” our contributors were given the option to test their genetics through a mail-order DNA kit from personal ...
Epigenetics involved in cocaine addiction
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have identified a new molecular mechanism by which ...
Human stem cells repair damaged retinal tissue in mice
Human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from human umbilical cord-blood are capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice, ...
Applying the ‘Bradford Hill’ criteria to assess GMO safety
Two anti-GMO advocacy groups attempted to use the Bradford Hill criteria to demonstrate a link between GMOs and adverse health ...
Turning to DNA to tailor prescriptions
Scientists searching for a way to avoid prescribing medications to patients that may cause dangerous physical or behavioral responses are ...
India government allows import of frozen embryos
India has allowed the import of human embryos for artificial reproduction, opening up what is expected to be a huge ...
Womb transplants prove successful for nine women
Nine women have received transplants of uteruses donated by their mothers or other living relatives in an ongoing trial of ...
