Evidence suggests ‘gay genes’ do exisit, but some straight women have them, too

Jenny Graves | 
The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furore in the 1990s. But new research two decades ...

Kidney disease one area where genetics underlies racial health differences

Leslie Spry | 
Talking about race is never just black and white, but when it comes to health, one thing is crystal clear: ...
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Faulty genes that cause heart disease focus of personalized medicine

Elizabeth McNally | 
Heart disease follows cancer as genetic screening advances identify targets and treatments on an individual basis ...
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Next-Generation Sequencing opening doors in diagnosing perplexing disorders

Kenrick Vezina | 
A new diagnostic test using "Next-Generation Sequencing" has made headlines for saving the lives of two young people suffering from ...

Artist uses van Gogh’s relative’s genetic material to create replica of famous ear

A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh's ear that was grown using genetic material ...

Laser treatments trigger dental stem cells to regrow teeth

Carolyn Johnson | 
With a simple, low-power laser, Harvard University scientists have triggered naturally occurring dental stem cells to regrow teeth in rats ...

As antibiotic resistance grows, scientists look again to viruses to help fight bacterial infections

Sara Reardon | 
For decades, patients behind the Iron Curtain were denied access to some of the best antibiotics developed in the West ...

Genetic search engine will streamline research by linking disease genes to evolutionary partners

Our bodies are as vast as oceans and space, composed of a dizzying number of different types of cells. Exploration ...

Putting the ‘sex’ in sex chromosomes overshadows their holisitic importance

Susannah Locke | 
Sarah Richardson is a historian and philosopher of science who focuses on the intersections between race and sex and the ...
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Genetic mismatch implies STAP stem cells do not exist

Kenrick Vezina | 
Genetic tests have put another nail in the coffin of the once-promising STAP (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency) stem cell technique, ...
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Criminalizing high-risk pregnancy? Law makes having a disease and baby simultaneously a crime

Meredith Knight | 
Tennessee will now prosecute pregnant women who use drugs, despite overwhelming evidence that addiction is a disease much like diabetes ...

Some worms’ genes shorten lifespans depending on diet

Rina Shaikh-Lesko | 
Evidence that diet can profoundly affect aging is beginning to emerge, sometimes through targeted studies and other times by accident ...

Environmental exposures cause aging. We should know more about them.

Ed Yong | 
Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at the age of 70, while ...

UK panel supports first genetically modified human embryos

Kate Kelland | 
A British expert scientific panel gave its backing on Tuesday to potential new 3-way fertility treatments that would for the ...

Japanese gaming company to begin personal genomics testing

Josh Horwitz | 
Japan’s DeNA built its empire from games for feature phones and desktop PCs, but its legacy in leisure isn’t stopping ...
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George Church, founder of ‘Facebook of DNA,’ says genetics can solve many world problems

Peter Miller | 
In the future, George Church believes, almost everything will be better because of genetics. If you have a medical problem, ...
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Have a taste for liver? Food preferences might be hard wired

Matthew Mientka | 
Geneticists have found 17 new genes that help determine what foods people enjoy most. But these genes aren't related to ...
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Lab-grown blood not ready for primetime just yet

Kenrick Vezina | 
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service wants to revolutionize our blood supply using lab-grown red blood cells from adult stem ...

Drugs that block genetic breaks on immune system lengthen cancer survival

Andrew Pollack | 
Drugs that unleash the body’s immune system to combat tumors could allow patients with advanced melanoma to live far longer ...

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 ...

Blondness carried in a single allele that enhances known hair color genes

Tina Hesman Saey | 
Some Europeans have enhancers that make them blond. In this case, the enhancer isn’t a hair dye, but a genetic ...

Bruce Ames, identifier of mutation causing chemicals, lists his greatest discoveries

Megan Scudellari | 
In an otherwise ordinary day in 1964, Bruce Ames picked up a box of potato chips and read the list ...

Breast cancer gene also raises risk of lung cancer in smokers

Samantha Olson | 
After comparing the DNA of 11,348 Europeans with lung cancer and 15,861 cancer-free patients, researchers found a particularly strong contention ...
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Justice requires that forensic sciences be standardized to protect the innocent

Virginia Hughes | 
Santae Tribble is one of more than 350 people who have been exonerated by DNA testing after going to prison ...

Peruvian village where many men go blind by 50 leads to stigmitization

Annie Murphy | 
Parán is a small dusty village in the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and for a long time, everyone ...
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“Outbreak” redux: Is lab research on influenza worth the risk of a pandemic?

Kenrick Vezina | 
What happens when you mix human error, deadly disease and lab animals? Hollywood would have us believe imminent disaster. Fear ...

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 ...
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