Biomedicine & Disease
Lab-grown blood not ready for primetime just yet
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service wants to revolutionize our blood supply using lab-grown red blood cells from adult stem ...
Environmental exposures cause aging. We should know more about them.
Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at the age of 70, while ...
Anne Glover, Europe’s chief science adviser faces anti-GMO, anti-tech politics
The European Commission's chief science adviser said publicly that politics impedes her ability to give unbiased advice to European policy ...
X-linked gene controls two common male reproductive birth defects
Baylor College of Medicine scientists defined a previously unrecognized genetic cause for two types of birth defects found in newborn ...
Bruce Ames, identifier of mutation causing chemicals, lists his greatest discoveries
In an otherwise ordinary day in 1964, Bruce Ames picked up a box of potato chips and read the list ...
Mosquito-borne dengue fever threatens Brazil World Cup but GM solution blocked by biotech fears
Construction woes aside, visitors to the World Cup in Brazil face a serious threat of mosquito-borned dengue fever. Over 2.5 ...
Peruvian village where many men go blind by 50 leads to stigmitization
Parán is a small dusty village in the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and for a long time, everyone ...
Marvel’s X-Men fan? Then you should appreciate ‘special powers’ of ‘mutant’ GM crops
From the origins of their 'special powers' to GMO labeling and mutant registration, the parallels between the debate over GMOs ...
Mexican surrogacy hospital accused of defrauding dozens of couples
Since 2006, the California-based medical tourism company had helped Americans with surrogacy and other medical practices in India. But when ...
RIKEN stem cell scientist Obokata may retract stem cell paper
Reports in Japan suggest Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, has agreed to retract one ...
Bum knees? Sports stars like CC Sabathia find success in experimental stem cell treatments
CC Sabathia, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, is making $23 million this year, and the same or ...
“Outbreak” redux: Is lab research on influenza worth the risk of a pandemic?
What happens when you mix human error, deadly disease and lab animals? Hollywood would have us believe imminent disaster. Fear ...
Video: GLP’s Entine challenges Consumer Reports anti-GMO (anti-consumer?) stance on FOX’s Stossel
Almost 90 percent of all corn and soybeans in the United States are grown from seeds that were genetically modified. GM research has now ...
After mapping human genome, scientists release catalog of proteins that help make them work
Two teams of scientists are publishing first drafts of the human proteome. The proteome is a catalog of all of ...
Personalized precision cancer treatments tailored to your genes improving but hurdles high
Elaine Mardis and her colleagues first encountered 39-year-old Lucy in 2010 at the Genome Institute at Washington University in St ...
Gene therapy hot again as success stories roll in
In the early 2000s, gene therapy seemed to be on life support. The once-promising technique, which uses engineered viruses and ...
3000 rice genomes released into public domain to boost food production
As a step toward boosting rice production to meet a projected 25 percent increase in demand by 2030, researchers from three Asian ...
Danger in food scares over GMOs almost never real, but fear itself kills
It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear ...
23andMe CEO discusses future of direct-to-consumer genetic testing company
Six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration ordered 23andMe, the Google-backed genetic-testing startup, to stop selling saliva kits designed ...
Old immunotherapy drug revived with some treatment tweeks
When Dave deBronkart was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer in 2007, he learned about a treatment called high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) ...
Demand to “prove” safety of GMOs is scientifically absurd
The latest discussions (debates? arguments? long drawn-out 140-character battles?) have related to the safety of GMOs. Without exception, the argument from ...
Cold case: Cryogenics may enter modern emergency care
Cryogenic preservation has long been fodder for science fiction films. But, emergency room doctors in Pittsburgh hope to save severely ...
Chicken Coop project traces genetics, history of multi-talented domestic chicken
Who cares how the chicken crossed the road; the intriguing question is now did it become such a multi-tasker. Nature's ...
GMO science denialists? ENSSER challenges WHO, National Academy of Sciences on GM safety
When activist anti-GMO writers like Michael Pollan challenge the National Academy of Sciences and other global science bodies that have ...
Non-celiac gluten senstivity disproven in experiment
By now, you’ve probably heard of gluten-free diets. They’re a necessity for the estimated 2 million Americans with celiac disease ...
Ancient remedy, silver, offers promise where antibiotics fail
Several years ago, a mosquito bite on Elizabeth Loboa’s right leg became infected, turning into an oozing sore that refused ...
Modern techniques don’t change the fact that humans have genetically engineered plants and animals for centuries
Genetically modified plants and animals are often feared as "Frankenfoods," but is there really anything dangerously new about manipulation of ...