Biomedicine & Disease
Ebola epidemic quickens
The cost of getting supplies needed to West African countries to get the Ebola crisis under control will be at ...
Humans’ love for simple stories and status quo make opinions intractable in face of fact
Popular opinions about complex issues in science and technology are often held to even when facts and experts are presented ...
Deconstructing the polarizing debate over ‘3-parent babies’
On most issues, the public debate follows a normal distribution curve, with the majority in the 'muddled middle'. That's not ...
Cystic Fibrosis is a simple genetic puzzle, but finding a cure remains difficult
On the face of it, CF is a perfect candidate for gene therapy. It’s literally a textbook genetic disease – ...
Humans colonize their homes with microbes, not the other way around
Microbes are everywhere. They live on and inside us, and cover most things we come into contact with, including our ...
Genetic causes of glaucoma identified
Researchers have discovered six specific genetic variations that may be linked to glaucoma. Findings published in the journal Nature Genetics ...
When the media hypes epigenetics, mothers take the blame
There's a lot of talk about epigenetics in the news, but scientists still don't know what it all means. A ...
Total Recall: Are we nearing the era, for better and worse, of reprogramming memories?
Scientists are edging closer to a time when we can enhance good memories and banish paralyzing ones. While that offers ...
Richard Dawkins’ moral policing aside, new era of fetal diagnostics underway
What would you do if you were pregnant with a fetus affected by a severe disorder? Abortion is often the ...
New generation Amish farmer’s view of next Green Revolution
In 2010, a young man on a quest for enlightenment walked into the office of Jerry Hatfield, director of the ...
California stem cell industry reviving
Almost three years after a Bay Area company shut down the world's first clinical trial of a therapy using embryonic ...
Could genetic testing make having a disabled child immoral?
The summer's "ice bucket challenge" has brought an extraordinary amount of attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease ...
New Yorker editor David Remnick responds to Vandana Shiva criticism of Michael Specter’s profile
The Vandana Shiva affair takes a new turn today with the release of The New Yorker Editor David Remnick's point-by-point ...
Among Ebola’s victims, hospital workers and researchers
The ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak is taking an appalling toll on health workers in West Africa. More than 240 have been infected ...
Return of bubonic plague sparks search for new vaccines
Plague arrived in Europe like the opening of a Clive Cussler novel, on a ship of death carrying corpses of ...
Brain, behavior and genetics
The link between our genetics and how we behave is the topic of much speculation, some if it highly controversial ...
IBM’s Watson will be key tool in genetic analysis
International Business Machines Corp., on Wednesday launched a computer system that can quickly identify patterns in massive amounts of data, ...
Riken institute scales down stem cell research following scandal
A scandal that started with a few suspicious images has led Japan's most prestigious research institute to slash its stem-cell ...
Personal genomics: Care to update your haplogroup status page?
Personalized genomics offers the opportunity to revolutionize medical care and our understanding of disease. But many first adopters won’t wait ...
Food labels: Gimmicks or guides to the future of food?
We are experiencing a labeling orgy. Consumers with no gluten allergies are snapping up gluten free producers. Non-GMO labels pump ...
Why we should be concerned by anti-GMO conspiracy theories
Contrails are the wispy white clouds of frozen water vapor that streak across the sky in the wake of jet ...
Portrayal of Vandana Shiva as ‘credible’ spokesperson for GMO labeling crusade promotes anti-science ‘false balance’
Reports in the GLP and by Michael Specter have painted a devastating picture of Vandana Shiva as an extremist who ...
HIV drug trials disproportionately include white patients, to detriment of African Americans
Many African-Americans may not be getting effective doses of the HIV drug maraviroc, a new study from Johns Hopkins suggests ...
Britain to scrutinize U.S. follow-up on individuals conceived through ‘three-parent’ IVF
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were ...
Ebola drug ‘ZMapp’ shows potential of biopharmed medicine
A handful of patients in the largest-ever Ebola outbreak have been treated with an experimental drug called ZMapp. American missionaries ...
Genome sequencing is getting cheaper, but might make healthcare more expensive
Cheaper genomic sequencing will give more patients and their physicians access to genetics in the healthcare system. But will that ...
Former director at UCLA School of Medicine Gregory Stark debates anti-GMO activist Jeffrey Smith
The Vail Symposium held a debate on GMOs and the future of food. The debaters: Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, best-selling author, and the ...
