Biomedicine & Disease
Second mosquito genome targets dengue and yellow fever
Virginia Tech entomologists have developed a chromosome map for about half of the genome of the mosquito Aedes agypti, the ...
Genotyping not better than symptoms for picking stroke medication
Using a patient's genotype to guide the initial dosing of warfarin or its analogues does not appear to be better ...
Free-DNA prenatal screenings greatly reducing use of amniocentesis
A simple blood test is transforming the world of prenatal screening, offering women a risk-free way to learn about fetal ...
‘Right to try’ law, for profit stem cells make Colorado wild West of non-FDA clinical trials
Colorado passed a new law supported by the ultra-conservative Goldwater Institute, the so-called Right To Try Law. This law allows ...
Italian stem cell ‘doctor’ selling snake oil to sick kids
A three-year-old Italian boy who suffers from a rare and incurable degenerative disorder called Krabbe disease received a stem cell ...
Children and Hispanics at highest risk for fatty liver disease
Despite major gains in fighting hepatitis C and other chronic liver conditions, public health officials are now faced with a ...
Pace of reproductive technology makes health effects hard to measure
Over the past 34 years, assisted reproduction like IVF has gone from exceptional to mainstream. The procedures have changed rapidly, ...
Little Lord Kahn and the edge of genome technology
An infant born earlier this month is the first known child to have his genome sequenced before birth. As more ...
Examining families that include genetic donors
There is an increasing tendency to want to explain everything human, from stress, to being gay, or having a zest ...
Future of biotechnology, scientific research threatened by pro-organic misinformation campaigns
The organic food market is estimated at $63 billion globally, with more than half of those sales occuring in the United States ...
Video: YouTube series Healthcare Triage examines science behind GMO safety
What does the science say about the safety of GMOs? Aaron Carroll, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of ...
Mexican genes, Mexican diseases, and the idea of race
Recently released study highlights misconceptions of 'Mexicans' as a 'race' despite the genomic and cultural diversity that exists within the ...
UK health chief criticized for push to sequence all National Health users
GeneWatch UK today criticised a speech by the new NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, in which he reportedly argued ...
Privacy, security concerns still not resolved in for large scale genome sequencing
Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data. Genetic ...
US has homegrown stem cell controversy
Boston-based stem cell researcher Piero Anverza is under formal investigation after retracting prominent papers on stem cells and heart disease ...
Holocaust survivors studied to determine if trauma-induced mental illness can be inherited
On April 23, 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was 10 years old. Two weeks earlier, he ...
Cure for HIV? New gene-editing technique shows promise
A few lucky individuals have a mutation that makes them highly resistant to HIV. This mutation is also behind the ...
Personalized vaccines treat kidney cancer
A highly personalized medical technique is allowing patients with advanced kidney cancer to live nearly three times as long as ...
After decade of controversy, fetal stem cells reemerge as Parkison’s treatment target
A neurosurgery team will next month transplant cells from aborted human fetuses into the brain of a person with Parkinson’s ...
Label food, but do it right: Scare-based labels hurt everybody
In early May, Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill into law that requires a label for any foods produced ...
GM mosquito breakthrough: Make them all males
Scientists have hailed the genetic modification of mosquitoes that could crash the insect’s populations as a “quantum leap” that will ...
MERS papers are duplicates, point to dysfunction is Saudi scientific community
A great story can be told again and again. But scientists working on the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) ...
Genes of best sleepers might offer clues for many diseases
In a lab at the University of California, San Francisco, a husband-and-wife team is working to unravel the secrets of ...
Cornell survey: Anti-GMO activists favor environment over feeding starving poor
A Cornell University survey found that those interviewed who cared more about keeping people from starving were pro-GMO. People against ...
GM mosquitoes produce only male offspring, eliminating entire populations in six generations
Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosquitoes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh ...
Does our anthropocentric view of genetics keep us from scientific discovery?
We often attribute disease causing agency to microbes. But any human heath effects they have were discovered haphazardly through evolution ...
Google will be home for 10,000 genomes for autism research
Google Inc. and Autism Speaks, a major autism research foundation, plan to announce on Tuesday a deal in which the ...
