Biomedicine & Disease
Building a virtual organism from the ground up–Let’s start with worms
The OpenWorm project wants you to help you build the world's first complete virtual organism so we can better understand ...
As reproductive technology charges ahead, legislative and ethical oversight flounders
Technology to assist human reproduction is growing quickly and without much government oversight. As these options expand past creating unorthodox ...
GMO science denialists? ENSSER challenges WHO, National Academy of Sciences on GM safety
When activist anti-GMO writers like Michael Pollan challenge the National Academy of Sciences and other global science bodies that have ...
New York Times, Science stumble in overstated reports on microbiome research
A flood of journalistic supposition and health advice has galloped way ahead of the data on the latest research on ...
GMOs safe but food producers not educating consumers on benefits
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are the future of the world’s food supply. But America’s GMO producers — including growers in ...
Future GM foods like wheat, rice and salmon face even greater hurdles than today’s GM corn or soy
For many corn and soybean farmers in the U.S., the new normal is to plant genetically modified crops. But considering how ...
Kevin Folta’s GMO primer: Genetic modification in crops is simply precision breeding
Eleven years ago when I began my career as a professor at the University of Florida, I would enjoy the sunny drives downstate from Gainesville ...
First Amendment: Scientists on libel threat against Forbes, GLP by NaturalNews’ Mike Adams
Alternative health cyber salesman Mike Adams has threatened to sue GLP director Jon Entine over an investigative profile published in ...
Why not destroy all small pox samples? Threat of synthetic recreation one reason
When the world eradicated smallpox in 1980, it was the first — and still only — time that people have ...
Views on GMOs shifting: What we fight about when we fight about genetic engineering
From their very first field test in 1987, GMOs have been the subject of intense debate. Despite the current gridlock ...
11 agricultural technologies that can safeguard food supply under climate change conditions
While the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns that the worst effects of climate change are yet ...
Baby’s microbiome may come from mom’s mouth via placenta
Babies in the womb are not as sheltered from the outside world as you might think. The placenta harbours a ...
Disabling a gene that breaks down insulin may help treat Type 2 diabetes
A long-sought target in the treatment of diabetes is coming into focus, as researchers report the discovery of a molecule ...
Did humans evolve to coexist with HPV? New study suggests maybe
In what is believed to be the largest and most detailed genetic analysis of its kind, researchers at NYU Langone ...
“Aliens of the sea” show there’s more than one way to build a brain
Comb jellies are surreal creatures that are more unique than previously thought; they appear to have evolved their own brains ...
Mutation that makes toxic protein responsible for cardiac aging in patients with rare aging disease
Children with progeria, a rare disorder that causes premature aging, die in their teens of ailments that are common in ...
Test for alcoholism identifies booze addicts by genes alone
US researchers have identified 11 genes linked to alcoholism. The genes were tested in three independent human groups and the ...
Appreciating nature’s beauty and symmetry without attributing it to a creator
I remember the chill I felt, 27 years ago, when I picked up the latest edition of Scientific American magazine ...
Girls who never grow up offer clues for aging research
An exceptionally rare genetic disorder causes a handful of girls to never age. Could they offer clues to help us ...
Sequencing cancer genomes, rather than testing specific genes is future of treatment
In the march toward personalized medicine, genotyping cancers has become more and more complex. Panels that pick up variations in ...
Synthetic bio breakthrough: Flies that make new amino acids
The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that ...
Sharks’ immune system proteins may help treat and diagnose cancer
Sharks and humans last shared a common fishy ancestor about 500 million years ago. Ever since, the two lineages have ...
GM key to battle growing impact of climate change on farming
Climate change is turning farm fields brown in the Midwest and around the world just as global demand for food ...
GM alfalfa’s release in Canada delayed as farmers reject it
A GM version of alfalfa, a staple in livestock feed, was supposed to be launched in Canada this year. The ...
We can read your DNA … but how well can we understand it?
The Boston Globe's Carolyn Johnson has penned an important reminder that "the facts about your genes are not necessarily facts ...
National Geographic ignoring crop biotechnology in ‘Future of Food’ series
Although it’s headquartered in the United States, National Geographic is a global publication. For more than 25 years, I’ve read it here ...
Men and women have different gene expression in MS, pointing to sex differences in treatments
In mouse models and in humans, females susceptible to multiple sclerosis (MS) produce higher levels of the blood vessel receptor ...
