Biomedicine & Disease
Massive DNA study points to new heart drug targets and a key role for triglycerides
A global hunt for genes that influence heart disease risk has uncovered 157 changes in human DNA that alter the ...
Scientist who mapped human genome says we will be able to ‘print’ alien life from Mars
Scientists will soon be able to design and print simple organisms using biological 3D printers says J. Craig Venter, the ...
Ashkenazi Jewish women descended mostly from Italian converts, new study asserts
A new paper in Nature Communications recharges a debate regarding the ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews, tracing maternal lineages back to ...
If you could design your own child, what characteristics would you choose?
Imagine a world where you could choose what your baby would look like. Would you want him to have green ...
Hefty twins shed light on obesity paradox
They are identical in almost every way, except one twin is fat and the other is thin. Now a study ...
Safe pesticide levels found in Kauai air
The County of Kaua'i and the state Department of Agriculture today released a report on environmental health issues in Waimea ...
Gene deletions found in individuals with autism
Using powerful genetic sequencing technology, a team of investigators, led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
Scientists use blur to sharpen nanoscale DNA mapping
With high-tech optical tools and sophisticated mathematics, Rice University researchers have found a way to pinpoint the location of specific ...
Gene scans solve mystery diseases in kids, adults
They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, ...
Father discovers cure for sons’ rare genetic disease
Nick Sireau's sons Julien, 12, and Daniel, 10, suffer from alkaptonuria, a genetic disorder affecting just one in 500,000 people ...
How having three parents leads to disease-free kids
This summer, government health officials in the United Kingdom made headlines by announcing that they will let scientists create babies ...
Five ways medicine is getting personal
Genomics is the study of the human genome, genetic mapping and DNA sequencing. Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, ...
Steve Jobs’s legacy in personalized medicine
The tech industry's investment in personalized medicine and cancer genome sequencing is pushing the field forward ...
Genetically modified cold virus a ‘promising’ new TB vaccine
Researchers at McMaster University are heralding the success of early trials of a “booster” vaccine that could serve as a potent ...
Mice get replacement glands, grown from scratch
It'll make you cry, or salivate. Takashi Tsuji at Tokyo University of Science in Japan, and colleagues have created tear and salivary ...
Your genome is a post-apocalyptic wasteland
Contrary to what you may have heard, your genome is not a highly sophisticated, finely tuned data storage and processing ...
The human genome’s mapped. Where are all the miracle drugs?
Sequencing the human genome seemed like a discovery so important that it couldn’t be overhyped—we had, after all, transcribed the ...
Will mapping parents’ DNA help offspring or just freak people out?
The more we learn about mutations in our DNA, the more it seem like we’re running around in a dark ...
When will gene therapy come to the U.S.?
For patients with genetic diseases, gene therapy could offer a lifetime of benefits after a single treatment. For cancer patients, ...
Adopting biotechnology to save cassava crops in Tanzania
In a recent interview with Nyinondi Philbert, a leader in Tanzanian agriculture, an IPP Media reporter learns about the important ...
Africa: GM bacteria ‘could eliminate’ sleeping sickness
Releasing tsetse flies that carry genetically modified bacteria resistant to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness could eliminate the disease ...
Gene therapy developers aiming for release in the US
Of the several gene therapies that have already advanced to human trials, one of them hopes to seek approval from ...
You have a genetic disorder: Should your family be told they might carry the mutation?
Genetic testing can help detect disorders early enough to have an impact. But the rising popularity of these tests has ...
Disease cutting corn yields, some speculate GM connection
ALTON, Iowa — It has come on like a tidal wave, washing across the Corn Belt from Minnesota to the ...
IVF: Where are all the stories of failure?
At the Alternative Parenting Show last weekend, the London Women's Clinic launched the nation's first egg bank. The headline controversy is that, for ...
Genetic study shows dangerous bacterim not spread in hospitals, as previously thought
Analysis of every C. diff infection in Oxfordshire for more than three years showed less than a fifth of cases had ...
DNA stories
What if personalized medicine never happens? What if the promised therapies tailored to our unique genomes just never materialize? Although ...
