Biomedicine & Disease
Top GMO question consumers want answered: Do GMOs cause cancer?
It is telling that some consumers are most worried about cancer-causing GMOs when scientific evidence has pointed strongly otherwise: No, ...
Call to end anonymous egg and sperm donation points to lack of fertility industry regulation
A renewed call to end the anonymity of egg and sperm donors hopes to provide donor-conceived kids with important health ...
Teamwork and genetics uncover extremely rare diseases and patients who share them
In February 2013, Stanford geneticist Gregory Enns called the Wilsey family with news: He was "99 percent sure" that doctors ...
Insurance and genetics: Primed for discrimination
It's currently illegal in the United States for employers and health insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic information, thanks ...
NIH’s Stem Cell program mysteriously shut down, only one study funded
Stem-cell researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been left frustrated and confused following the demise of ...
Breast cancer genes: Beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are classic tumor-suppressor genes that repair breaks in double-stranded DNA. But even with the BRCA mutations known ...
What is direct to consumer genetic testing actually worth?
Cyrus Farivar uses several direct to consumer genetic testing companies to explore his health risks, specifically for Alzheimer's disease. In ...
Parkinson’s researchers look for genetic connection to Ashkenazi Jews
The second part of a study of Ashkenazi Jews who carry the LRRK2 gene, the most common genetic contributor to ...
Two sides to knowing your genetic risk for disease
Dr Sharon Moalem recently diagnosed a mother with a rare type of hereditary ataxia, a neurological disorder for which there ...
Fear of insurance, employment loophole may keep some from sequencing their genomes
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as ...
DNA nanorobots deliver medicine inside cockroaches, act like a computer
"It's a computer -- inside a cockroach." So writes Sarah Spickernell in a fascinating account at New Scientist of DNA-based ...
To reduce false positives, PLOS asks scientists for extra info in gene association studies
The Public Library of Science will now require scientists who want to publish genetic association studies in the journal to ...
3D model of malaria genome to help understand how disease works
For the first time, scientists have generated a 3D model of the human malaria parasite genome at three different stages ...
As FDA rejects mandatory GMO labeling, some ‘green’ groups advocate vandalism
FDA commissioner's science-based support for voluntary labeling of GMOs disappointed anti-GMO campaigners, some of whom are now advocating ripping up ...
Epigenetic studies provide intriguing results, but are hard to replicate
Obesity may be written not only in the genes, but also on top of them. One of the largest studies ...
Black Plague’s quirky genetics, 700 years later
The Black Death ravaged the European population, but some survived due to a genetic mutation also implicated in HIV infection ...
MicroRNA biomarkers could provide advance warning of heart attack
Heart attacks could in future be predicted days in advance using a wearable blood monitor, new research suggests. Scientists have ...
Recent stories got it wrong–Rats not exonerated from causing Black Plague
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scholars have debated the ...
Brain implants may help monitor neurological problems, address depression and Parkinson’s
Helen Shen at Nature chronicles a new class of deep brain implant that not only helps treat Parkinson's but may, ...
DNA evidence suggests Black Plague not a rodent problem
Archaeologists and forensic scientists who have examined 25 skeletons unearthed in the Clerkenwell area of London a year ago believe ...
CRISPR editing technique could reverse disease symptoms in living animals
Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, MIT researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused ...
Ancient viral DNA may play key role in how human stem cells work
A significant portion of our genetic material is comprised of holdovers from viral infections long ago. Now it seems like ...
New guidelines for patients who opt-out of DNA screens too limiting
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics updated their policies to let patients decide if they want to participate ...
RNA-based nanomedicines arrive at cancer clinics
Researchers recently reported multidrug delivery using nanoparticles to mediate resistance in relapsing cancers and to improve triple-negative breast cancer treatment ...
Epigenomic boom over hyped?
Epigenetics promises to explain the relationships between our genes and environments, but some scientists argue it may be going too ...
Breakthrough STAP stem cell researchers officially guilty of misconduct
Earlier this year researchers at Japan's RIKEN institute announced a remarkably easy way to produce stem cells -- the holy ...
Another step towards designer babies?
A non-invasive test that is much more accurate than current methods to detect abnormalities in a fetus's genome is now ...
