Medical Regs & Ethics
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
DNA, the ‘devious defecator’ and the right to genetic privacy
A poop paternity test may set legal precedents on privacy in the workplace ...
Is FDA-backed ‘Viagra’ for women a step towards gender equality in medicine?
After an intense lobbying campaign, a federal advisory panel recommended approval of what would become the first drug to treat ...
White House tackles antibiotic resistance at first ever summit
Representatives of more than 150 health care organizations, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies federal health agencies and food-production interests met at ...
‘My genes made me do it: An excuse for infidelity that your spouse shouldn’t believe
Media have a tendency to hype studies that link individual genes to behavioral effects. Recent news surrounding connections between the ...
National academies move to design regulations on germline editing
The National Academies of Science (NAS) and National Academies of Medicine (NAM) have their work cut out for them as ...
Are concerns over danger of CRISPR eclipsing potential benefits?
CRISPR is causing a major upheaval in biomedical research. Unlike other gene-editing methods, it is cheap, quick and easy to ...
Anti-GMO bungle: Claim GM genes pass from food into blood collapses
In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists ...
‘Quack science’ NaturalNews website blames glyphosate for Beau Biden’s cancer death
Yes, glioblastomas (and other forms of brain cancer) are nasty tumors. They’re one of the kinds of tumors that, admittedly, ...
Vermont medical centers ditch GMOs over alleged safety concerns
University of Vermont Medical Center serves two million meals a year, and is a national leader in purchasing, preparing and ...
Public discussion on germline editing vital, but what should be discussed?
Human germline genetic modification, which involves making genetic changes that will be passed on to future generations, is once again ...
