FDA intensifies discussions on medical and ethical issues of mitochondrial replacement therapy

Jessica Cussins | 
On January 27, 2015, a newly appointed committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will hold the first in a ...
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Bipartisan support found for US personalized medicine initiative

Robert Pear | 
President Obama will seek hundreds of millions of dollars for a new initiative to develop medical treatments tailored to genetic ...

Are probiotics actually essential in a ‘normal’ GI tract?

Mark Crislip | 
The more I understand about normal GI flora, the more I suspect probiotics are the wrong answer to a wide ...

Privacy concerns raised by use of consumer genomics data in pharmaceutical research

Eric Topol | 
The largest single repository of human genetic data in the world is not at any university, research institute, or pharmaceutical ...
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Extending healthy life through gene manipulation: Sounds cool but it’s complicated

David Warmflash | 
There has been a recent flurry of news and excitement about tracing the the genetics of athletic ability, effects of ...
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Top 6 stories on the GLP, January 26, 2015

This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...

Should direct-to-consumer DNA tests come with a health warning?

Jessica Cussins | 
Genetic testing is appropriate — and can be life saving — when doctors and genetic counsellors interpret complex results and map out ...

Details expected to emerge on President’s personalized medicine initiative

Sara Reardon | 
During his State of the Union address to Congress on Jan. 20, 2015, President Barack Obama announced a programme called ...
Does genome editing mean the end of genetic disease?

Does genome editing mean the end of genetic disease?

Jennifer Doudna, Kara Moskvitch | 
In October, two scientists shared the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for inventing the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology ...

Genome editing is future of biotech

C. S. Prakash | 
I asked some of those social thought leaders for their predictions of what we can expect from biotech and biopharma ...

Recalling old and new fear memories use different brain pathways

People with anxiety disorders, such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often experience prolonged and exaggerated fearfulness. Now, an animal ...
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Nanotechnology and medicine: Coming of microscopic machines that treat disease

Ben Locwin | 
It’s been the stuff of science fiction: Sending miniaturized machines through the human body to repair organs internally, without the ...

Can lab grown tissues help test drugs for rare diseases?

James C. Powers, Marshall L. Summar | 
Marshall L. Summar, MD: I am Marshall Summar, Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, ...
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Forget GMOs: Surgeon General has determined that DNA is dangerous to your health!

Jon Entine | 
OMG! Deoxyribonucleic acid risks contaminating all of our food. Where is Gary Hirshberg when we REALLY need him! Just Label ...
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No scientific basis behind claims that Wi-Fi signals cause cancer

Faye Flam | 
Last week, several media outlets including Forbes.com ran with an alarming-if-true story that equated the low frequency radiation emitted by Wi-Fi ...

Could genetically engineered cattle hold Ebola cure?

Maggie Fox | 
On a farm outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a herd of cloned, genetically engineered cattle are busy incubating antibodies against ...

Growing tobacco plants genetically engineered to produce drugs and vaccines

Bob Shaw | 
Dave Roeser, St. Paul's award-winning hydroponic gardener will still grow vegetables but is adding medicinal plants. He plans to raise ...

Tracking the spread of bacterial infections with whole genome sequencing

Jenni Laidman | 
No matter what they tried, the staff at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England could not quell an outbreak of ...

Monsanto’s perceived or real evil a creation of capitalism, biotechnology a scapegoat

Isaac Ongu | 
Monsanto, an American agro-biotech giant with several operational offices and products across the globe has been every Activist’s reference in ...
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Buzz on how the housefly genome will help cure human disease

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Insects that humans have always regarded as nothing but pests are being exploited for good purposes —as genomic sources of ...

Could FDA’s plan to regulate laboratory developed tests help end pseudo-testing?

The FDA regulates in vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs) as medical devices. IVDs analyze human samples, such as blood, saliva, tissue ...
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Cancer, bad luck and some lessons in science reporting

Arvind Suresh | 
The controversy surrounding a study that suggests cancer is mostly due to bad luck has some lessons for science reporting ...
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Worried you have cancer? Take a Google pill!

Jane Palmer | 
Google X, Google’s research unit, is working on technology that combines disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via ...
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Could genetically engineered chickens reverse the avian flu epidemic?

Rebecca Randall | 
Genetically engineered chicken could be more effective than vaccines at preventing transmissions of avian flu—a disease that can be devastating ...

Why new guidelines for sharing clinical trial data are important

Judy Stone | 
We're in the middle of a major flu epidemic, and the CDC has recommended treatment with an antiviral (e.g., Tamiflu ...
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Breakthrough research: Bioengineered human muscle that contracts like real tissue

Macrina Cooper-White | 
In what's being hailed as a medical first, researchers at Duke University announced this week that they had bioengineered human ...

Eleven genomic medicine centers to lead UK’s 100,000 genomes project

Barbara Czub | 
Eleven NHS Genomic Medicine Centres (GMCs) have been announced by Genomics England. They will spearhead the 100,000 Genomes Project, which ...
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