Biomedicine & Disease
Device allows people to alter mouse genes through mind control
Scientists have created a mind-control system that allows a person to alter the genes in a mouse through the power ...
Embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells both carry similar DNA mutations
A team led by New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists conducted a study comparing induced pluripotent stem ...
Why do we gain weight or remain slim? Genes, microbes and now genes for microbes
Gaining weight is partly the fault of genes. Gut microbes are involved in obesity too, although that's a complicated and ...
Fatal Retraction: Downside of early cancer detection
Google recently promised to develop early-detection technology for cancer, heart disease and strokes. While early diagnosis might seem like a ...
Food Babe flops on BRCA mutations: Understand genetics or go home
Charlatans like Food Babe, Dr. Oz, Joseph Mercola, and Vandana Shiva represent everything disgraceful about unscientific propaganda. Cancer misinformation is ...
Google to start offering DNA tests to employees with cancer
Google will soon start covering the cost of Foundation Medicine's DNA tests for employees and their family-members suffering from cancer, ...
Food Safety News proposes GMO ‘Right to Know’ label that actually helps consumers
Dan Flynn, the editor of Food Safety News floats a radical idea that could transform the GMO: The right to know ...
Can scientists derive a cure for Ebola from blood of survivors?
A group of scientists including three Nobel laureates in medicine has proposed that U.S. health officials chart a new path ...
Dangers of over-diagnosing a disease
Historically, the science of epidemiology was directed toward identifying and controlling epidemics of infectious disease. In a study just published ...
Should you get a mastectomy when a BRCA mutation is detected?
Before I was scheduled for a double mastectomy at the age of 60, I knew I was infinitely blessed: The ...
Mothers’ breast milk transfers important signals to baby
Milk is not just food. The more closely scientists examine it, the more complexity they find. Along with nutrients like ...
Google developing nanotechnology to detect cancer
Last week, U.S. tech giants Google made a splash in the media, announcing plans to develop new ‘disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles’ ...
Little-known microbe may profoundly effect our guts
The twisting helices of DNA within our bodies influence everything from our height to our personality to risk of diseases ...
Evolutionary origins of genitalia unveiled
When the first animals scrambled out of the water to live on land, they needed limbs and lungs. And something ...
Stem cell therapy may be effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease
Stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson's disease, according to scientists in ...
Rationalizing health risks difficult, especially when emotions in play
From Ebola to breast cancer screenings, people have a difficult time understanding where their health risks truly lie. Our emotional ...
Are Fluffy and Fido key to anti-aging research?
Dogs may join yeast and mice as candidates for large scale studies investigating drugs that may one day solve age-related ...
GMO farmers guilty until proven innocent: Monsanto to challenge Maui crop ban
A ban on the growing of GMO crops by Maui County voters by a scant 1077 votes—less than .5 percent of the total—will ...
Snake species responsible for bite identified using DNA test
To treat victims of snakebites, it's important to know which type of snake did the biting. Now, a new test ...
Gene databases help in prescribing therapies to cancer patients
A major California university hospital is exploring ways to gather and use genetic information gathered from cancer patients, hoping to ...
Two Ebola vaccines currently being tested for future use
Two experimental vaccines against Ebola are currently being tested to see whether they are safe to use in people, and ...
Ethics issue aside, freezing human eggs may be dangerous
When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, ...
Gene patents pose challenge to doctors treating genetic disorders
In Canada, doctors are challenging legally-held patents on genes. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has taken the case to ...
Cameroon on path to introduce GMO Bt cotton
Cameroon is poised to become the tenth country to grow GMO cotton--a cotton variety modified to express the natural insecticide, the bacterium ...
Open letter: Slow to adopt GM crops, Europe becoming ag backwater
More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...
Is increase in ADHD an artifact of our modern educational system?
One in ten American children will be treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD at some point in their ...
Which tastes better: Conventional or organic foods? A tale of two apples
Many studies (e.g., here) have broached the topic of the taste and ‘quality’ of organic food versus conventional. Robustly, The ...
