Biomedicine & Disease
Gene patents face Supreme Court reckoning
Medical-testing companies differ on the potential impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the Myriad Genetics BRCA1 patent. Many companies ...
Gene technology innovations reshaping future of medicine
The ability to map human DNA cheaply and quickly is yielding a torrent of data about the genetic drivers of ...
Genetic testing of Newtown shooter will provide few answers
It’s difficult to contemplate what could drive a young man to kill 20 schoolchildren, six teachers, his own mother, and ...
Lessons from Prop 37 — the future of genetic engineering in agriculture
To me, the bread and butter of GM will be control of plant diseases. Control of plant diseases are not ...
Personalized medicine’s perverse economics
In pharmacogenetics, genetic typing is used to determine a patient's likely response to drugs, and create a personalized drug regime ...
Genetics will not explain Newtown
Genetics Will Not Explain NewtownHuffington Post (blog)David Kaufman is director of research at the Genetics and Public Policy Center at ...
Personalised medicine and the duty of disclosure
Mind the double bind - personalised medicine and the duty of disclosureLexology (registration)New federal law will ban genetic discrimination by ...
Virus-based gene therapy holds promise for neurological disease
Novel virus-based gene therapy holds promise for Canavan diseaseNews-Medical.netResearch led by Paola Leone, PhD, of the University of Medicine and ...
Medical examiner wants to probe Sandy Hook shooter’s genetics
Connecticut's chief medical examiner said he hopes Adam Lanza's biology will help explain why the Sandy Hook shooter went on a deadly rampage. The ...
Canada: In search of genomic incentives
In a renewed quest for medical breakthroughs, the Canadian government recently committed $67.5-million for research into “personalized medicine.” This bold ...
Breakthrough technique has potential to stop some genetic disorders from being inherited
Today, researchers at the New York Stem Cell Foundation and Columbia University Medical Center announced the success of a new technique to transfer the ...
Gene therapy extends lives of children with brain disease
Children born with a rare, genetic brain disorder that causes severe atrophy and often leads to death within three years, ...
The global transgenic menagerie
Both sides of the debate over genetic modification in animals -- AquaBounty's “Frankenfish” salmon included -- tend to make it ...
We’ll see human cloning ‘within 50 years’
Telegraph.co.ukHuman cloning 'within 50 years'Telegraph.co.ukSir John Gurdon, whose work cloning frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the later ...
New fetal genetic test opens a host of ethical questions
ScientistYear of the FetusScientist“This will affect the complexity of genetic counseling tremendously,” said Emily Hardisty, a certified genetic counselor and ...
Canada joins personal genome project
The Personal Genome Project, an initiative to generate DNA sequence from the genomes of the general public, has been around since ...
New class of GM mosquito rattles anti-GMO campaigns
The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide whether or not to allow the release of genetically modified mosquitoes to ...
Personalized medicine offers glimpse into the future
Personalized medicine offers glimpse into the future - City & Region - The ...Buffalo NewsAndrew M. Cuomo to spur economic ...
We’re overselling the health-care ‘revolution’ of personal genomics
In the very near future, we’ll all be able to have our entire genome – all our genetic information – ...
Personalized medicine for prostate cancer: Promise of the future
Personalized medicine is treatment specific for a patient based on his or her genetic makeup. It doesn’t involve designing a ...
DNA isn’t all-powerful: A challenge to personalized cancer care
(Reuters) - The cancer cells were not behaving the way the textbooks say they should. Some of the cells in ...
Bioethics by Donna Dickenson: A review
Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, has written a highly accessible guide ...
Parents grapple with delving into their kids’ DNA
This week’s TIME cover story (available to subscribers here) asks a simple question with a complicated answer. Sophisticated DNA testing ...
The benefits of DNA science should be shared across social and class lines
Sharing the benefits of DNA science across social and class lines is one of the next big challenges facing genome ...
Does whole genome sequencing circumvent gene patents?
What happens when, during the course of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) a patient or research subject, an investigator sequences and analyzes ...
‘Golden Rice’ scandal tarnishes ethics committee
'Golden Rice' scandal tarnishes ethics committeeGlobal TimesThe results of an investigation into the infamous experiment of "Golden Rice," a genetically ...
Genetic pre-natal test opens window to improved diagnoses, stirs concerns
New fetal screening tests using gene chips instead of conventional chromosomal evaluation to identify congenital diseases may ignite a turf ...
