Biomedicine & Disease

Many GMO opponents are targeting the development of Golden Rice--a variation on the Asian staple enhanced with Vitamin A that ...

Scientists are proposing new method of researching genetic disease, which was discussed at the recent American Society of Human Genetics ...

In a scientifically-based future, researchers will be able to tailor the cure to the patient using genetic modification - by ...

Researchers have created a simple saliva test capable of diagnosing diabetes and cancer, and perhaps neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, at ...

A new study on the genetics of a large cohort of kidney cancer patients in Europe finds that exposure to ...

Using a technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, it’s possible to screen embryos for disease and sex before they are implanted ...

For the first time, scientists have made lab-grown stomachs in a petri dish. The feat was accomplished at the Cincinnati ...

Today, the Frankenstein story is invoked in exactly the opposite way that Shelley wrote it - it is invoked as ...

researchers have sequenced the genome of enterovirus D68, a deadly respiratory illness that has impacted 1,100 people in the US ...

Spiders are friends and understanding the natural world can help us achieve advances in areas like biotechnology, human health and ...

A widely publicized study showed that a component in chocolate may have protective anti-aging effects for the brain. But based ...

High yield genetic sequencers, cell phones and paper-based diagnostics are all being employed to develop a cohesive picture of the ...

The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is native to Southeast Asia, is an alarming vector for human disease like dengue, chikungunya and ...

Steven Novella of the New England Skeptical Society has a thoughtful and entertaining piece on his Neurologica blog on the seven ...

A new technology may soon be born at the intersection of genetics and computer science. An international team of scientists ...

Circadian clock genes help align our bodies with our planet's 24 hour light-dark cycle. Misalignment of circadian rhythms has been ...

More than 200 million people worldwide use DEET, developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and patented by ...

In 1987 the US National Academy of Sciences stated there were no new risks from plants created using recombinant DNA ...

“Can you point to Center City?” neuroscientist Russell Epstein likes to ask visitors to his office at the University of ...

As often happens in times of medical crises, fringe groups come out from hiding--in this instance, organic activists in the ...

The Asian citrus psyllid carrying the huanglongbing bacterium is a devastating combination vector that causes a lethal citrus disease which is a threat ...

Flavonoids are versatile plant metabolites found in many plants - including hops, and therefore beer. A new study in Behavioral Brain Research found ...

"Nutrigenomics has the potential to be the next big thing in our fight against lifestyle-linked diseases, says Professor Lynn Frewer, Professor ...

It's not getting much media attention, but the White House has declared a moratorium on some kinds of virus research ...

Millions of people have lately adopted a gluten-free diet by self-diagnosing with gluten sensitivities in spite of the fact there ...

A new research effort has identified a genetic mutation that has been overlooked in recent large, comprehensive gene searches - ...

Researchers have discovered a genetic variant that arose thousands of years ago in people living in the Arctic. It helped them then, ...