Biomedicine & Disease
Genetic switch controls muscles aging
It is a sad fact that old age brings diseases. Many may not be life-threatening, but they make life less ...
New strains of bird flu up risk for pandemic
Genetic variations in the deadly bird flu virus circulating in China increase the potential for a pandemic strain to emerge, ...
Is it wrong to try to breed out breast cancer?
Breast cancer is the latest disease being bred out of families through preimplantation genetic diagnosis – an embryo screening test ...
Are genetically-enhanced Olympians coming, or already here?
Athletes may someday use today's gene therapy techniques to illicitly blow past the competition through gene doping. In fact, maybe ...
Activist says GMO crops cause increase pesticide use
My problem with GMOs in plants grown for food is that most manipulation involves making them able to better withstand ...
Australia must commit to develop genetically engineered livestock to meet global demand
Genetically engineered livestock will be critical to feeding the world's projected population of 9 billion people by 2050, according to ...
Family selects for children with lower genetic cancer risk
To shield any future children from the fear she harbors of getting breast cancer, Katie Dowdy underwent a controversial procedure ...
Breast cancer genetic tests have improved and doctors urge retesting
Over the past decade, the phrases ‘BRCA 1’ and ‘BRCA 2’ went mainstream as genetic testing to assess breast cancer ...
OCD genes found in dogs
Incessant tail chasing, repetitive shadow stalking, relentless paw chewing for hours and hours every day: Dogs can suffer from obsessive ...
Families hope anti-genetic engineering groups don’t stop gene cure for mitochondria disease
Hopes of tackling mitochondrial disease will be raised in a few weeks when the government announces regulations that will permit ...
Discovery points to explanation for “missing” genetic risk
Susceptibility to common diseases is believed to arise through a combination of many common genetic variants that individually slightly increase ...
Ancient genetics may lead to future treatment for gout
We're susceptible to gout because of a mutated gene in humans and other primates that prevents us from producing uricase, ...
Three parent baby debate: FDA ponders mitochondrial manipulation and, perhaps, germline modification too
Next week, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting to consider how a very controversial new form of assisted reproduction ...
Treating macular degeneration with a patient’s own induced pluripotent stem cells
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, more commonly called reprogrammed cells, start out as skin or other somatic (body) cells, zip ...
Will genetic sequencing lead to a new racism?
Advances in genetic sequencing are giving rise to a new era of scientific racism, despite decades of efforts to reverse ...
New bionic hand includes a sense of touch
Sensory feedback is what will turn future prostheses from tools into hands; a breakthrough bionic hand represents a first step ...
IBM’s Watson and DNA mapping to improve drug prescription process
Scott Megill hopes that his company can bridge the gap between physicians and geneticists and provide personalized patient predictions of ...
Study treats each person as his or her own experiment
What if we based decisions to exercise more, eat healthier or make other lifestyle changes to maintain our health on ...
Are industry funded studies corrupting GMO science?
Are all of the studies supporting the safety of GM foods the result of a massive scientific selling-out, the product ...
Biotech start-up targets Parkinson’s and ALS with new gene therapy
A Cambridge biotechnology company launching Wednesday is taking aim at Parkinson’s disease and ALS with a new gene therapy that ...
Study of chicken genetics might help in the fight against hunger and poverty in Africa
Animal science faculty members at Iowa State University are studying the genetic makeup of chickens in Africa in an effort ...
Australians create fungus resistant wheat by removing a gene
According to John Curtin Distinguished Professor Richard Oliver, Director of the Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens (ACNFP) at Curtin, ...
A progressive looks for common ground in the GMO debate
Skeptics of GM food should come to grips with the fact that the act of genetic manipulation is itself not ...
New method of locating and targeting mutations promises “letter by letter” genome editing
A new method of identifying the exceedingly rare and difficult-to-pinpoint mutations in the human genome gives researchers unprecedented ability to ...
Computational drug discovery technique targets microRNAs using genome sequencing
A team of chemists has developed a new computational drug discovery technique that targets microRNAs using genome sequencing. To demonstrate ...
Double mastectomies halve death rate for BRCA1 or BRCA2 breast cancer patients
Woman with a genetic form of breast cancer who have double mastectomies are nearly 50 per cent less likely to ...
Scientists hope for a glimpse of King Richard III through DNA analysis
Scientists are to analyze the DNA from the remains of Richard III to create the world's first complete genome sequence ...
