Medical Regs & Ethics

When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, ...

In Canada, doctors are challenging legally-held patents on genes. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has taken the case to ...

More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...

Many studies (e.g., here) have broached the topic of the taste and ‘quality’ of organic food versus conventional. Robustly, The ...

Researchers have created a simple saliva test capable of diagnosing diabetes and cancer, and perhaps neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, at ...

Today, the Frankenstein story is invoked in exactly the opposite way that Shelley wrote it - it is invoked as ...

For the first time, scientists have made lab-grown stomachs in a petri dish. The feat was accomplished at the Cincinnati ...

High yield genetic sequencers, cell phones and paper-based diagnostics are all being employed to develop a cohesive picture of the ...

Steven Novella of the New England Skeptical Society has a thoughtful and entertaining piece on his Neurologica blog on the seven ...

Spiders are friends and understanding the natural world can help us achieve advances in areas like biotechnology, human health and ...

A widely publicized study showed that a component in chocolate may have protective anti-aging effects for the brain. But based ...

In 1987 the US National Academy of Sciences stated there were no new risks from plants created using recombinant DNA ...

“Can you point to Center City?” neuroscientist Russell Epstein likes to ask visitors to his office at the University of ...

As often happens in times of medical crises, fringe groups come out from hiding--in this instance, organic activists in the ...

Flavonoids are versatile plant metabolites found in many plants - including hops, and therefore beer. A new study in Behavioral Brain Research found ...

"Nutrigenomics has the potential to be the next big thing in our fight against lifestyle-linked diseases, says Professor Lynn Frewer, Professor ...

It's not getting much media attention, but the White House has declared a moratorium on some kinds of virus research ...

In high school biology, we all learned that development of a new organism is a complex endeavor ...

When pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella or Staphylococcus invade our bodies, we go into a state of high alert and alter ...

In Down syndrome, the most common chromosomal abnormality in humans, a third copy of all or part of chromosome 21 is ...

A new research effort has identified a genetic mutation that has been overlooked in recent large, comprehensive gene searches - ...

Researchers have discovered a genetic variant that arose thousands of years ago in people living in the Arctic. It helped them then, ...

The news that yet another American, New York City physician Craig Spencer, has tested positive for Ebola has stoked an ...

Somewhere near Paso Robles, John Howard and his team will be harvesting corn for the next few weeks. The exact ...

His doctor drove him over the border. It was quicker that way: if the man donated in Switzerland, his blood ...

City dwellers live life at a maddening pace. And while the urban jungle lets us experience incredible highs, its chaos ...

Both alcohol and cocaine dependence are regulated by epigenetic changes in the brain that begin with abuse. Matched with the ...