Medical Regs & Ethics
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Leading bioethicists suggest dropping informed consent in limited cases
As technology continues to evolve, leading bioethicists are proposing nuanced approaches to consent: not providing the opportunity for informed consent ...
Horshoe crabs bleed for biomedicine
The bright blue blood of horseshoe crabs is a biomedical treasure, but harvesting the blood of these unique creatures seems ...
Heather has three parents
In the 1990s the children’s book, Heather Has Two Mommies, caused an uproar. To some people, the very title was ridiculous ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Market for DNA-sequencing-based Down Syndrome tests could top $6 billion
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Latest on the latest anti-GMO scare: Dangerous plant GMO is in your blood
The truth is that there may or may not be plant DNA in your blood. The single research paper making ...
FDA meetings on ‘3-parent’ IVF, gene manipulation continues
As the FDA takes on the controversial issue of mitochondrial manipulation and gene therapy, ethical issues arise. Critics and proponents ...
The IVF question: What to do with leftover embryos?
For those currently undergoing in vitro fertilization, the entire process can be complex – both medically and emotionally. In vitro ...
Technique for refining multi-source genomic data
A scientific team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Harvard, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute says they have ...
Genetic odd couple: Humans traveling with (friendly?) infection-causing African bacteria for 100,000 years
Helicobacter pylori, which causes ulcers and stomach cancer, maybe the oldest our oldest bacterial infection: genetic studies suggest it came ...
DNA screening helps find the best guide dogs
Researchers in Hokkaido have developed a way to test slight differences in the DNA of young dogs to screen their ...
DTC genetic testing companies need nudge to help patients understand results
The 23andMe controversy illustrates a stalemate over the role of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in American health care. On one side ...
We should use genetic engineering to treat disease, not fundamentally alter future children
The mitochondrial manipulation that the FDA is considering would start us down the slippery slope toward human experimentation with unknown ...
GMOs in fem care products can kill you? Not if you follow the science
Last week, the tweets were flying furiously in a "Right to Know" campaign regarding fem care products (for more information, ...
Patients avoid thyroid surgery with help of gene test
Later this year, doctors in the U.S. will be able to use a gene test to guide thyroid cancer surgery ...
Promise of “easy” stem cells comes under investigation
Two breakthrough papers in Nature highlight a remarkable new technique for creating totipotent stem cells via a simple acid bath ...
New strains of bird flu up risk for pandemic
Genetic variations in the deadly bird flu virus circulating in China increase the potential for a pandemic strain to emerge, ...
Are genetically-enhanced Olympians coming, or already here?
Athletes may someday use today's gene therapy techniques to illicitly blow past the competition through gene doping. In fact, maybe ...
Breast cancer genetic tests have improved and doctors urge retesting
Over the past decade, the phrases ‘BRCA 1’ and ‘BRCA 2’ went mainstream as genetic testing to assess breast cancer ...
Three parent baby debate: FDA ponders mitochondrial manipulation and, perhaps, germline modification too
Next week, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting to consider how a very controversial new form of assisted reproduction ...
Will genetic sequencing lead to a new racism?
Advances in genetic sequencing are giving rise to a new era of scientific racism, despite decades of efforts to reverse ...
New bionic hand includes a sense of touch
Sensory feedback is what will turn future prostheses from tools into hands; a breakthrough bionic hand represents a first step ...
IBM’s Watson and DNA mapping to improve drug prescription process
Scott Megill hopes that his company can bridge the gap between physicians and geneticists and provide personalized patient predictions of ...
Study treats each person as his or her own experiment
What if we based decisions to exercise more, eat healthier or make other lifestyle changes to maintain our health on ...
