Medical Regs & Ethics
Health, ethics, or money: What’s really driving CRISPR debate?
A momentous technological revolution is unfolding in our very real, no longer fictive ability to easily and cheaply alter the ...
Doctor wants to remove head from human body, put it on another
It sounds like the plot for a science fiction movie. Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in the ...
Doctors to begin scanning fetus’ entire genome for genetic abnormalities
If you could gaze into a crystal ball and discover whether your newborn baby might have health problems, would you ...
Sex with robots? Androids are coming to our bedrooms and boardrooms
In the near future, people will interact with androids, converse with them, even have sex with them and artificial intelligence ...
Journal ‘pollution’ contributes to mistrust of science, GMOs
The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, ...
Audio interview: Zimbabwean regulatory official lauds multiple uses of GMOs in health, agriculture
National Biotechnology Authority registrar and chief executive officer Jonathan Mufandaedza spoke to NewsDay at the regional biotechnology training workshop at ...
Can ancient Anglo-Saxon remedy cure MRSA infection?
A plant-based ointment recipe pulled from a 1,000-year-old manuscript is spiking excitement about what historical knowledge and traditional remedies can do to ...
WHO: Doomsday health crisis looms if we do not anticipate post-antibiotic era
Water sanitation and antibiotics still work well, but antibiotic resistance is growing, and there as signs that water chlorination could ...
Watch scientist challenge the scare-promoting Food Babe
Food Babe has built her career on denigrating scientists, farmers and food experts. Then she encountered Alison Bernstein, aka Mommy ...
Fetal DNA test highly accurate in detecting Down syndrome
A Roche blood test to screen fetuses for Down syndrome worked far better than standard prenatal screening tests in younger, ...
Why does science denialism persist, and how is it harming society?
The March issue of National Geographic raises many intriguing questions about the world we live in today. It also has a particular ...
Long Island research center, NY hospitals join forces to find cancer treatments
Some of the world’s finest scientists live in a former whaling village on the North Shore of Long Island, in ...
How one infant’s death made important contribution to research
When she found out early in her pregnancy that one of her identical twins would die at birth, Sarah Gray ...
How biotech is revolutionizing personalized medicine
Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has completed a remarkable ...
Can biomedical data be boiled down to Amazon.com-style recommendations?
Citizen scientists and research startups have begun to play an important role in creating new data sets for biomedical researchers ...
Is Facebook overstepping privacy boundaries with DNA testing app?
A new medical research study aims to screen the genes of at least 20,000 people. Part of a surging tide ...
Is cancer a byproduct of modernity?
If there’s one claim that irritates me that various proponents of alternative medicine like to make, it’s that cancer is ...
Research doesn’t support fish oil’s supposed benefits for cardiovascular health
Fish oil is now the third most widely used dietary supplement in the United States, after vitamins and minerals, according ...
Invasive surgeries may be replaced with ultrasound therapy
Phyllis is having brain surgery. But she is wide awake. There are no scalpels and no blood, sliced flesh or ...
Too good to be true: Skepticism necessary when media hype genetic, medical ‘breakthroughs’
Media coverage of genetic ‘breakthroughs’ creates hope for treatments that often never make it out of clinical trials. Complicated genetic ...
Chip off the old block? Fathers pass along more of their DNA, disease problems and all
We receive an equal amount of raw DNA from our fathers and mothers, but dad's genetic trust fund comes with ...
Human evolution ‘now in our hands,’ some scientists say
After my public lectures on evolution, someone in the audience invariably asks, “Are we still evolving?” People want to know ...
Should women with high risk BRCA mutation follow Angelina Jolie’s path?
Angelina Jolie has done wonders for raising awareness about the so-called “breast cancer gene”—the infamous BRCA1 mutation that can greatly ...
Can artist teach geneticists to comprehend masses of Big Data?
For the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been ...
Anti-GMO activists leverage glyphosate cancer reclassification to resurrect discredited claims
The WHO reclassification of glyphosate that's paired with herbicide resistant GM crops has led to a swirl of claims that ...
Space twins: Scott Kelly’s one-year space mission could yield genetic bounty
On a one-year space mission, astronaut Scott Kelly will be the subject of medical and genetic experiments while his identical ...
In wake of Owen Paterson rebuke of anti-GMO ‘Green Blob’, advocates and opponents play tug-of-war over Africa
Owen Paterson's recent speech on the green lobby's role in blocking GMOs in Africa stirred some strong responses from both ...
