Medical Regs & Ethics
Frederick P. Li, scientist who helped prove genetic link to cancer risk, dies
Dr. Frederick P. Li, who helped prove to a doubting medical establishment that heredity and genetics play a major role in some ...
Transhumanist dilemma: Should we be allowed unlimited access to our own genetic information?
Up until recently, those in the technology industry and those conducting genomic research would have been considered strange bedfellows. But ...
MERS arrival in yet another country raises concerns about global preparedness
A respiratory virus that originates in the Middle East and has been hopscotching the globe for three years has landed in ...
Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
Plant geneticist Pamela Ronald on why organic farming can benefit from advanced genetics
Pamela Ronald is a professor at the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at UC Davis. Ronald is also the ...
Is routine Down syndrome screening a social justice issue?
Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed. Visions of ...
Mini ‘placenta-on-a-chip’ gives closer look at mysterious organ
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have created a “placenta-on-a-chip,” a miniature device that uses actual human cells to ...
Pope says research and debate needed over GMO pros and cons
Pope Francis has called for a “scientific and social debate” on genetically modified foods that considers all the information available ...
Database of ancient human DNA opened for global public access
Medical and other researchers and science teachers around the world will be able to compare ancient DNA from humans from ...
Regulation of mitochondrial replacement therapy needs to consider cross-generational consequences
How does one go about regulating the world’s first cross-generational biological experiment in human germline modification? The regulating body in ...
Mitochondrial medicine: Pushing the limits of resuscitation
Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell. Along with understanding the role of mitochondria in causing damage to the ...
Preventing brain disease by eating brains? Science doesn’t support sensationalized reporting
Is there a genetic cure for dementia? Recent news reports of a mutation that can protect against a deadly form ...
DNA test to sell personalized skin care products: Scam or science?
What’s being billed as the future of skin care starts suspiciously like a visit to the dentist: with a mouthwash ...
Synthetic internal ‘clock’ could help treat obesity
Non-scientists generally think of “circadian clock” as a metaphoric term. There’s nothing literally ticking away inside the human body, helping ...
US to end almost all research using chimpanzees
Chimpanzee research in the United States may be nearly over. On June 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ...
Why Illinois’ proposed GMO-labeling law ‘has no teeth’
In her May 31 guest commentary ("Do you know what's in your food?"), St. Xavier University assistant professor Tatiana C ...
New technique gives researchers closer look at epigenetics
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new technique to more precisely analyze bacterial ...
Can the placebo effect serve as actual medical treatment?
Currently, studies have shown that our genes can be modified by epigenetic factors such as; diet, life experiences, beliefs, perceptions, ...
Synbio technology’s potential benefits for food, medicine come with safety implications
Irene Mendoza and David Gillum from ASU’s Environmental Health and Safety Office were featured speakers at the June 3-6 Asociación ...
We’re entering a new generation of precision medicine
For decades, doctors treated nearly all patients with the same disease in the same way, aware that drugs that worked ...
With antibiotic resistance on the rise, what does the future look like?
Over the past 85 years, antibiotics have been miracle drugs. They’ve kept infections at bay and opened up a world ...
Can Parkinson’s disease be cured by an injection of fetal cells into the brain?
A new stem cell treatment for Parkinson's diseased highlight the delicate balance of risks vs. rewards. It entail using fetal ...
Scientists inject electronic device into brains, create cyborgs
No need to wait for the cyborg future—it’s already here. Adding to a growing list of electronics that can be ...
“Pink & Blue” documentary challenges female only myths about breast cancer and BRCA mutations
BRCA mutations have taken a toll on film producer Alan Blassberg and his loved ones, prompting what promises to be ...
BBC debate: Is GMO opposition grounded in science?
Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and ...
Head transplants? Have scientists lost their minds?
Here’s something that will make your head spin: A Chinese doctor has been surgically transplanting the heads of mice—and he ...
Glowing bacteria detect diabetes, cancer in patients’ urine
A Stanford-designed project has built a startling new tool for diagnostic medicine: living biosensors made of bacteria that glow a ...
