Medical Regs & Ethics
FTC takes aim at ‘cancer-detecting’ app featured on Dr.Oz show
It seemed too good to be true — a $4.99 cellphone app that could help you figure out if moles ...
A Facebook for sharing your genetic information?
Three years ago, biologist Bastian Greshake spit in a vial and sent it off to personal genomics company 23andMe for ...
Bionic reconstruction enables mind-controlled prosthetic hands
Bionic hands are go. Three men with serious nerve damage had their hands amputated and replaced by prosthetic ones that ...
Lesson from Ebola: Tobacco plant key to developing GMO drugs of the future
While any tobacco is harmful if smoked, there's a kind of tobacco that's being put to positive use—namely, the use ...
Glyphosate not harmful to humans, according to food science
Two weeks ago, I girded my loins and wrote a column endorsing genetically engineered food. The spate of fist-shaking, chest-thumping ...
You are what you don’t eat: Genetics of anorexia and bulimia
The latest research shows how eating disorders, and anorexia in particular, produce a cascade of physical and mental effects, including ...
Law and Order: Using DNA to generate suspects’ facial profiles
Police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect in a murder investigation. In what may ...
Understanding the UCLA superbug problem
The UCLA Health System announced earlier this week that seven patients—two of whom died—became infected by highly drug-resistant bacteria that ...
VIDEO: Are GM foods dangerous? Renowned science reporter takes on anti-GMO fundamentalists
The British YouTube rationalist and renowned ex-BBC Radio 4 and CBC science reporter with a degree in geology debunks pseudoscience, ...
First rapid Ebola test approved by WHO
The World Health Organization has approved the first rapid test for Ebola in a potential breakthrough for ending an epidemic ...
Expert opinions divided on FDA approval of 23andMe’s DTC genetic test
On February 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier test for Bloom ...
Preventing preterm births: Genetic cause could be in the fetus, not the mother
Given the complexity of pregnancy, taking all evidence-based precautions against preterm birth is a wise course of action. But it ...
Fox News embarrasses itself as urologist, medical professor opine (wrongly) about GMOs
If you think you’re getting accurate science from Fox News’ Sunday Housecall, you may want to think again. A segment they ...
Unraveling mystery of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A personal journey
This daily ordeal, among other irrational behaviors I suffered, was physically and emotionally exhausting, yet it wouldn't subside until I ...
Stem cells show promising results in treating malaria
Human stem cells engineered to produce renewable sources of mature, liver-like cells can be grown and infected with malaria to ...
Is Nature safer, healthier in medicine and food? Deadly take on controversial topic
It's called the "naturalist fallacy". Naturalist beliefs that seeds or foods developed in part by scientists, often working in laboratories, ...
Kit expands genetic screening options for Ashkenazi Jewish couples
When a Jewish couple is planning their wedding or anticipating starting a family, they probably aren’t thinking much about rare ...
20-year saga with brain disease highlights questions about precision medicine plan
Which chapter came first? Was it the genetic predilection for alcohol that created [Barbar's] lifestyle (pure chaos) and environment (streets, shelters, hotels)? ...
Bob Simon’s final 60 Minutes: Grinding progress of ZMAPP Ebola GMO drug
The final story of Bob Simon's brilliant journalism career put him in the middle of a GMO controversy--the use of ...
Glow-in-the-dark protein helps neuroscientists peer into brain
Neuron activity is used as everything from an indicator of our most fundamental impulses to a model for computers, but ...
Toronto Star’s take on vaccines ignores science, spreads irrational fear
The Toronto Star, Canada's highest-circulation daily newspaper, has built a reputation for excellent investigative reporting, including justly celebrated exposes of Toronto Mayor ...
Mother Jones’s missed opportunity to reverse GMO safety consensus denialism
A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...
For cancer, timing and order of mutations determine outcome
For the first time, researchers have proved that the order in which cancer genes mutate affects the type of malignancy ...
Chief medical examiner promises to boost NYC’s poor handling of criminal investigations
She is the closest thing to a hometown medical examiner that a city of eight million people could really expect ...
In wake of new EU GMO restrictions, Wales proposes further tightening
On January 13, the European Union (EU) voted in favour of amending legislation in Europe that will allow Member States ...
Designer children? Will movement for 3-parent babies change how we view parenthood?
Last week members of the British House of Commons passed a bill legalizing mitochondrial DNA transfers--a process that combines three ...
Will gene-edited products be considered GMOs?
The genome engineering methods currently used, particularly in mammalian cells, are difficult and inefficient. This has led scientists to search ...
