Personalized Medicine
GINA’s sixth birthday: Does legislation protecting our genetic information mean anything?
The Genetic Nondiscrimination Act nominally protects against nefarious use of genetic information by employers and health insurance companies, but it ...
Aging-related loss of Y chromosome reponsible for some cancers
Though overall life expectancy varies around the globe, it is true for pretty much any country you look at that ...
Adult stem cells made into insulin producing cells
For the second time in recent weeks researchers said they used cloning technology on adult tissue, rather than from a ...
Open-source Personal Genome Project looks at all aspects of human experience
Abigail Wark wants to see your areolas. But only if you are a participant in the Personal Genome Project, a ...
Pre-conception diet affects child’s DNA
A woman's diet at the time of conception might cause lasting changes in the DNA of her children, potentially influencing ...
Privacy for our electronic genomes: Who’s responsible? What’s at stake?
The level of security and anonymity provided to genetic information depends on the research project, direct to consumer company or ...
Citizens for Health lobbies for suspect alternative meds, supplements (and free love?)
Do you believe in magic? Most scientists now believe that most supplements, mega-vitamins and homeopathy therapies are junk science or ...
Drug developed first in mice may help elderly keep muscle mass
In 1997, scientist Se-Jin Lee genetically engineered "Mighty Mice" with twice as much muscle as regular rodents. Now, pharmaceutical companies ...
Stem cell scientist outlines his top five challeges for embryonic stem cell nuclear transfer
It was intriguing last week to read about another advance in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-based therapeutic cloning of human ...
‘Electronic genomes’ vulnerable to attack
In a digital world, even our most sensitive information is vulnerable to hacking. In the case of DNA, people can ...
DNA test for cervical cancer gets FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first alternative to the long-used Pap test as a primary screening ...
Influence of genes on body mass grows with age in kids
The influence of genetic factors on differences between children's Body Mass Index (BMI) increases from 43% at age 4 to ...
Rare Turkish neurodegenerative disorder caused by a single mutation
International teams of researchers using advanced gene sequencing technology have uncovered a single genetic mutation responsible for a rare brain ...
What are the differences in genetically engineering crops and drugs?
When you google GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) the results that come up speak to GM crops, but GMOs are more ...
Depressed people may produce too much of a damaging neuroprotein
Post-mortem analysis of brain tissue has shown that the dendrites that relay messages between neurons are more shrivelled in people ...
Impacts of genetic analysis and patient advocacy for extremely rare diseases
Marshall L. Summar, MD, Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, ...
Will European opposition to GM foods slow biomedical advances?
Genetically modified bacteria might be able to relieve celiac sufferers from inflammatory symptoms but researchers worry that tight restrictions promoted ...
American’s know genetics relate to health, survey says
23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, is celebrating National DNA Day by taking an in-depth look at what Americans know ...
Gene therapy can restore hearing to deaf poeple
In two months' time, a group of profoundly deaf people could be able to hear again, thanks to the world's ...
Surrogacy without infertility: Is career reason enough?
Although still rare, rich women are choosing to use surrogates during pregnancy for social reasons without medical necessity ...
Genetics link inflammatory bowl disease and cancers
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a group of chronic inflammatory disorders of the intestine that result in painful and debilitating complications, ...
Ignorance about genetics helps spread of common contagious disease
It’s that strange time of year when, despite springtime breaking out all over town – tulips, apple blossom, sunshine, the ...
DNA “cloaking devices” sneak past the immune system, could deliver medicine and identify disease
The mammalian immune system remained an obstacle to deploying DNA nanorobots that could carry medicines through your bloodstream and to ...
Physician sees disorder for decade before genotyping can confirm genetic link
It was more than ten years ago that Dr. Tally Lerman-Sagie first saw babies with PCCA, a genetic disorder that ...
Treatment impacts of new cloning milestone
DNA extracted from the skin of a 35 and 75 year-old male has been injected into four denucleated human eggs ...
Lifestyle affects personal microbiome
Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or ...
Genes play roll in pain tolerance differences between patients
Researchers may have identified key genes linked to why some people have a higher tolerance for pain than others, according ...