Biomedicine & Disease

In a new blog post by Kevin Folta, interim chairman the University of Florida’s horticulture program, he describes the anti-GMO ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the genetic defect that causes Down syndrome could be suppressed using the gene-silencing ...

Researchers at Kawanda national agricultural research laboratory have developed new varieties of bananas resistant to the devastating banana bacterial wilt ...

Genomic analyses of single human neurons—either from postmortem brains or those derived in culture—reveal a considerable degree of DNA copy ...

A new drug from Northwestern University shrinks an incurable form of brain cancer in mice, paving the way for a ...

We're seeing some successes in gene therapy, but cost remains an issue. Could a modified version of HIV save the ...

A study of 5,000 patients found genetic profiling of lung tumours boosted survival rates through better targeting of chemotherapy drugs. The ...

We've been tweaking and tinkering with DNA for thousands of years, but we're just reaching a time when humans, more ...

The medical community needs a plan for handling the fast-growing knowledge about the health risks identified through whole-genome sequencing, said ...

To help scientists investigate inheritance, so-called genome hacker Yaniv Erlich has built family tree with over 13 million people, using ...

Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) is looking to the cloud for large-scale genomic analyses. According to ...

For decades, tobacco has been maligned as a source of diseases. But in recent years, scientists using genetic modification have ...

The momentum for legalizing marijuana in the United States has been picking up steam in recent years, with nearly half ...

Really old human DNA (we’re talking thousands of years) holds amazing secrets about our distant past. What did we look ...

Altered genomic regulation of expression of key synaptic proteins may be responsible for the increased risk of dementia seen in ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards understanding the causes of Alzheimer's disease with the largest study yet into the genetics of the disorder ...

We all know people who seem to have been born with good genes—they may smoke, never exercise, or consume large ...

Work in the field of synthetic biology creates a dual use ethical dilemma--the techniques that help us learn to cure ...

When Feng Zhang was in graduate school, he discovered that the tools for splicing new genes into living cells were ...

Junk science is stalling important innovations in biotechnology, forcing companies to fold under intense pressure from anti-GMO activists ...

A new biotechnology company will take over human trials of two gene therapies that could offer one-time treatments for a ...

(Summary) "Genetic engineering is not a magic bullet for Africa, but it can help battle pests and diseases, improve nutrition ...

Cancer is a disease of information, in which a cell becomes reprogrammed into a precision killing machine. In the consensus ...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital's Robert Green wants to know how having your complete genome sequenced at birth changes the course ...

Personal genetic testing has certainly become financially accessible, but local and international restrictions on transporting medical samples and getting test ...

New research suggests that focusing on the protein-coding region of our DNA that makes up about 1.5 percent of each ...

As one of the world’s most influential journalists, Michael Pollan has the ability to shape public opinion. But by twisting ...