Biomedicine & Disease
Non-invasive prenatal test for at-risk mothers recommended by US medical society
Non-invasive pre-natal screening for certain abnormalities in fetal chromosomes should be offered to at-risks mothers, recommends the American College of ...
Gattaca alert: Personal genomics meets neo-eugenics
Eugenics is back into the headlines, thanks to rapid advances in personal genomics. Naturally, not everyone is inclined to greet ...
Genetic screening uncovers risky matches at the sperm bank
Genetic Screening Can Uncover Risky Matches at the Sperm BankMIT Technology Review (blog)Experts in assistive reproduction say the idea behind ...
‘Your 23andMe results are ready’
Today, I Realised That I am Going to Die (at Some Point)Huffington Post UK (blog)Yesterday I received an email from ...
Will modern eugenics remain voluntary?
Eugenics, Voluntary and OtherwiseFirst Things (blog)The Chronicle of Higher Education last week published a rather odd article on the evolution ...
New eugenics and the question of personal choice
Eugenics is back in the headlines. Our ability to examine and manipulate our genes is more advanced than ever. But ...
In defense of eugenics
I expect that belief in eugenics is far more prevalent than most people would comfortably wish it to be. One ...
The age of personalized medicine is upon us
Stanford's Mike Snyder Starts Living the Personalized Medicine StoryXconomySay the words “personalized medicine” to people from various walks of life, ...
Bioethics group opposes mitochondrial replacement
The Christian InstituteOppose GM babies, bioethics group saysThe Christian InstituteTechniques which would create genetically modified babies should be “urgently opposed”, ...
Should we be worried about Obama’s DNA getting hacked? (Video)
An article in The Atlantic suggests hacking the President's DNA is actually a viable assassination threat. It sounds like something ...
The genes we eat: a conversation
Many worry that genetic advances could result in risks to our health and the environment—concerns that surfaced again in the ...
Telomeres linked to death risk in data from largest U.S. “biobank”
Researchers who have assembled a trove of genetic and medical data on 100,000 northern Californians unveiled their initial findings here ...
Mapped pig genome may aid medical research, food production
Scientists have mapped the genome of the domestic pig in a project that could enhance the animal's use for meat ...
Alzheimer’s tied to mutation harming immune response
In a surprising coincidence, two groups of researchers working from entirely different starting points have converged on a mutated gene ...
UCSF Genetics Symposium: personalized medicine is the theme
Personalized medicine advances arising from genetic discoveries were the primary focus of wide-ranging presentations at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics 2012 ...
Biosecurity concerns for new animal disease research lab
For over 50 years the United States has carried out research on dangerous animal diseases at Plum Island, just off ...
Scientists breed disease-resistant fish, sans genetic engineering
The Japanese are great guzzlers of fish, but fish are in finite supply. And farming them to increase that supply ...
Coconut crisis forces a rethink on gene banks as conservation tools
The international collection of the South Pacific's coconut palm species, held at a field gene bank in Papua New Guinea, ...
It’s showtime for stem cells in San Diego
San Diego research centers banded together to bring in stem cell grants, getting more than $261 million. Local leaders calculated ...
Human enhancement: Resistance is futile?
In the next few decades we may well see see technology currently used to aid the sick and disabled -- ...
The new eugenics movement
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece out by Nathaniel Comfort, The Eugenic Impulse. I would just like to ...
New paradigm for genetic counseling
In the old days (like a year or two ago) only a small portion of the patient population were thought ...
Is gene therapy finally emerging from the shadows?
The prospect of using gene therapy to treat diseases—particularly inherited diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis that ...
Rare genetic variants may not as influential in common disease as once thought
Rare tweaks in single letters of DNA are not as powerful a force in health and in common diseases as ...
Last 500 Ethiopian wolves endangered by lack of genetic diversity
The last wolves in Africa face a difficult road if they are going to survive. Just 500 Ethiopian wolves (Canis ...
Genetic links found between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
A study published recently in Nature found new genetic links between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, two autoimmune gut diseases ...
Sheep breeders at the “cutting edge” of genetics
Agriculture and animal husbandry have strong ties to the history of genetics -- Darwin, after all, relied heavily on evidence ...
