Biomedicine & Disease
Google founder targets cure for Parkinson’s disease
Sergey Brin, the 38-year-old co- founder of Google Inc. (GOOG), is making strides in his quest to find a cure ...
University study finds mixed reception of genetic testing
Researchers at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine have found that patients see both benefits and risks from direct-to-consumer ...
Toothless no more- Researchers using stem cells to grow teeth
It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults ...
International study hopes to identify genetic markers to predict response to antidepressants
A group of research centers spanning five continents is in the middle of a clinical trial intended to identify genetic ...
Enzyme corrects more than one million faults in DNA replication
Scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) at the University of Edinburgh have ...
Scientists now raise fears on safety of GMOs
Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that ...
Canadian geneticist discovers secret behind the blond-haired Solomon Islanders
The discovery of a gene mutation that gives some Soloman Islanders platinum blond hair has important implications for medicine and ...
Breaking the genome bottleneck
The genomic data generated from next-generation sequencing machines doesn't amount to much more than alphabet soup if it's not subjected ...
Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development
Vaccines remain the best line of defense against deadly pathogens and now Kathryn Sykes and Stephen Johnston, researchers at Arizona ...
Can blood test predict breast cancer risk?
A blood test that spots changes in a specific gene could reveal a woman's risk for breast cancer years before ...
Newborns with missing spleen – Genetic link identified
A study published online in the May 3 edition of Developmental Cell reveals that researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical ...
Genetic literacy poor in primary care
Despite early predictions of huge public demand for direct-to-consumer genetic testing, it’s safe to say personal genetic data isn’t clogging ...
Cloning teeth! Medicine’s next big thing?
Nearly 70 percent of adults age 35 to 44 have lost at least one permanent tooth, and by age 74, ...
Cleveland Clinic to open personalized medicine center
Cleveland Clinic has become the latest to jump into the hot field of personalized medicine, announcing plans to open a ...
Study reveals dynamic changes in gene regulation in human stem cells
Last year, this team reported recurrent changes in the genomes of human pluripotent stem cells as they are expanded in ...
Agrimovie series: Genetically modified food
Toad Pear raises some good points. Almost all the food we grow is a modification of ‘natural’ foods – plants ...
Give stem cells ‘A’
Almost halfway through a $600 million state program supporting stem cell research, eight medical schools around New York are reporting ...
Synthetic DNA is tomorrow’s medicine
An international team of researchers has created revolutionary proteins that can copy synthetic genetic material – the so-called XNA (Xeno-Nucleic ...
Jews are an ancient Middle Eastern ‘tribe’, genes reveal
In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and professor at ...
