Medical Regs & Ethics
Organics versus GMO: Why the debate?
There is a global consensus on the safety of GMOs. Yet, anti-GMO activists and proponents of organic crops are fighting ...
Stomach cells naturally revert to stem cells
New research has shown that the stomach naturally produces more stem cells than previously realized, likely for repair of injuries ...
DNA can challenge religious doctrines
Advancements in medical genetics challenge the long-standing relationship between science and religion. Both genetics and religion can affect notions of ...
No Nobel, but epigenetics finally gets the recognition it deserves
Adrian Bird, Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin were hotly tipped to win this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine for their ...
Ashkenazi Jewish women descended mostly from Italian converts, new study asserts
A new paper in Nature Communications recharges a debate regarding the ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews, tracing maternal lineages back to ...
IVF costs set to soar, scientists warn
Scientists have only a few weeks to block a patent that could have serious implications for couples seeking IVF treatments ...
Safe pesticide levels found in Kauai air
The County of Kaua'i and the state Department of Agriculture today released a report on environmental health issues in Waimea ...
Gene deletions found in individuals with autism
Using powerful genetic sequencing technology, a team of investigators, led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
If you could design your own child, what characteristics would you choose?
Imagine a world where you could choose what your baby would look like. Would you want him to have green ...
Hefty twins shed light on obesity paradox
They are identical in almost every way, except one twin is fat and the other is thin. Now a study ...
Gene scans solve mystery diseases in kids, adults
They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, ...
Steve Jobs’s legacy in personalized medicine
The tech industry's investment in personalized medicine and cancer genome sequencing is pushing the field forward ...
Five ways medicine is getting personal
Genomics is the study of the human genome, genetic mapping and DNA sequencing. Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, ...
Genetically modified cold virus a ‘promising’ new TB vaccine
Researchers at McMaster University are heralding the success of early trials of a “booster” vaccine that could serve as a potent ...
You have a genetic disorder: Should your family be told they might carry the mutation?
Genetic testing can help detect disorders early enough to have an impact. But the rising popularity of these tests has ...
IVF: Where are all the stories of failure?
At the Alternative Parenting Show last weekend, the London Women's Clinic launched the nation's first egg bank. The headline controversy is that, for ...
Genetic study shows dangerous bacterim not spread in hospitals, as previously thought
Analysis of every C. diff infection in Oxfordshire for more than three years showed less than a fifth of cases had ...
DNA stories
What if personalized medicine never happens? What if the promised therapies tailored to our unique genomes just never materialize? Although ...
Gene therapy developers aiming for release in the US
Of the several gene therapies that have already advanced to human trials, one of them hopes to seek approval from ...
Gene therapy study produces promising results for hemophilia B patients
A fraction of patients with a common form of the bleeding disorder hemophilia develop anallergic reaction to the blood-clotting treatment they need to ...
Innovations in neuroscience trigger shifting views in the treatment of mental illness
Innovations in neuroscience are changing the way scientists see the brain, which could lead to more effective treatment of mental ...
Foot cream kills HIV by tricking cells into suicide
A common drug that dermatologists turn to treat nail fungus appears to come with a not-so-tiny side effect: eradicating HIV. In ...
DNA testing could prove valuable tool for identifying viral infections, including MERS
New research shows that genetic testing can be used for quick and highly accurate results in testing for viral infections, ...
The reason some people get cold sores may be genetic
Medical researchers are closer to understanding why some people are more prone to cold sores than others. Although between 80 ...
A dispatch from the genetic frontier
I never thought I had all that much in common with the glamorous film star Angelina Jolie – until May of this ...
Disease-specific human embryonic stem cell lines placed on NIH Stem Cell Registry
Scientists from King's College London have announced that 16 human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines have been approved by the ...
Should physicians or counselors control access to your genetic information?
Genetic testing helps people identify gene mutations that might affect their health. But this information, without the guidance of experienced ...
