Biomedicine & Disease

Scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio have for the first time demonstrated that baboon embryonic stem ...

Virginia Hughes is “sick of reading about the dangers of the genome.” So she complains over at Slate, eloquently, and I’m ...

The Supreme Court said Monday that it would not hear a case challenging the Obama administration’s guidelines on embryonic stem-cell research. The move ...

Brain scans of newborns show the same brain changes that appear in adults with gene variants linked to Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, ...

Last week we introduced the reality that our genetic technology is far surpassing our ethical ability to deal with the ...

For the price of a night out, individuals can learn key elements of their genetic composition, hence take life-saving treatment, ...

The personal genomics horse has bolted, yet many members of the medical community are still trying to shut the barn ...

Some days the future arrives faster than others—this is one of those days. Researchers from Oxford University just announced that ...

Researchers have identified four new regions on the human genome associated with Behcet's disease, a painful and potentially dangerous condition ...

Genomic research will transform medicine but progress has been slower than expected, leading critics to charge that the promise of ...

Celltex’s venture raises some of the most vexing, emotional issues in the business of medicine. Stem cells hold enormous promise, ...

Golden rice trial triggers sackings, investigationSciDev.NetThe study looked at 'golden rice' — a GM rice strain that contains higher levels ...

The Western world's first drug to fix faulty genes promises to transform the lives of patients with an ultra-rare disease ...

Nate Silver, author of the 538 blog at the New York Times, has made statistics and quantitative modeling “cool” with ...

Genomic research was widely expected to transform medicine, ushering in a new era of personalized healthcare and disease prevention, but ...

Days after the Newtown shootings of December 14, 2012, headlines trumpeted the state medical examiner’s request of University of Connecticut geneticists to ...

Despite some concerns over the transfer of DNA from one organism to another to create genetically modified crops and animals, ...

In a novel use of gene knockout technology, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine tested ...

Boca Raton parents Gary and Judy Susser say they know the hope and promise of stem-cell therapy. Nine years ago they ...

When economic development consultant Anne Morriss and her partner were looking for a sperm donor, genetics was an afterthought. “We trusted ...

Some people are concerned about genetically modified food, with good reason, but I’m more concerned about genetically modified kids. One ...

Jiroemon Kimura, who became the world's oldest man on record last week, can thank a combination of luck early in ...

One in six U.S. adults binge-drinks four times a month, consuming an average of eight drinks per session, according to ...

A temporary ban on GM maize has been lifted in Russia. The ban was put in place in September last ...

More than once last year, researchers described leaps in medical science that were so breathtaking, and held so much potential ...

Much has changed since 1990, when geneticist Mary Claire King first located the breast-cancer gene at the heart of the ...

Researchers have already safely injected stem cells into patients with neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries -- and they've seen ...