Personalized Medicine
Precision medicine genomic testing is changing the way we treat leukemia and reducing reliance on chemotherapy
For decades, until the turn of this century, treatment strategies for leukemia changed very little. Patients received chemotherapy, often with ...
South Korean twins separated early in life suggest environment may play larger role in human differences than previously thought
Researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to study identical (aka monozygotic) twins who were separated early in life, ...
Artificial wombs: The coming era of motherless births?
Scientifically, it’s called ectogenesis, a term coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1924. The technology is on its way. How will ...
Some heavy smokers will never get cancer. Here’s why
Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the main cause of lung cancer, yet only a minority of smokers develop the disease. A ...
Nutrigenomics: Can what you eat reprogram your genes?
People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to ...
Short sleepers: This genetic mutation allows some people to thrive on as little as 4 hours a night
Too many Americans are sleep-deprived. Although the overwhelming majority of adults needs at least seven hours of sleep per night, ...
Personalized drug prescriptions? The future is now as support grows for expanding pharmacogenomic tests
Genetic testing to predict how individuals will respond to common medicines should be implemented without delay to reduce the risk ...
Is the direct-to-consumer genetic testing boom fading?
At-home health testing company LetsGetChecked has acquired the genetic testing company Veritas Genetics and spinoff Veritas Intercontinental, it announced [March ...
Genedrive: There is now a simple bedside genetic test that can prevent many newborns from drug-reaction deafness
The instant that toddler Khobi Jerome hears the opening notes of any song from Frozen, she’s up on her feet ...
3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped
Scientists have filled in millions of missing pieces of human DNA, yielding the most complete, gapless sequence of the human ...
Diagnosing Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy and fragile X syndrome? New DNA test can cut diagnosis time from decades to days
A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, ...
Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?
Traci Portugal, who is in her 40s, lives in Washington State and runs the website DonorDeceived.org, which catalogs and tracks ...
New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing
Late winter is the season for dealing with unexpected findings from DNA testing kits gifted in December. For most people, ...
More than 50 hard-to-detect genetic disorders can now be diagnosed with a revolutionary DNA test
A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, ...
Many people carry severe disease genes that should be deadly — but they survive and are healthy. How?
The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept scanning the mouse’s pregnant belly, back and forth, back and forth. They ...
Genetic genealogy leads to unexpected — and sometimes destabilizing — revelations
Genetic genealogy has become a popular hobby over the past several years, thanks to direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and relative-finder ...
How DNA analysis uncovered the illegal elephant ivory trade
As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of ...
Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?
We might not realise or give it any thought but the type of work we prefer, whether we pursue a ...
How genetics explains in part why Black women are more likely to to die of breast cancer
Black women have a 31% breast cancer mortality rate – the highest of any U.S. racial or ethnic group. Additionally, ...
Genomics Beyond Health: UK considers impact of genes on sports, education, and crime
A new wide-ranging report Genomics Beyond Health published [January 26] by the Government Office for Science investigates how genomics could ...
Why will some people never get COVID — and why are they so important to researchers?
Some people don't get COVID despite being exposed to the virus — a mystery researchers are trying to unravel. Why ...
Eating disorders: How advances in genetics and psychology are informing new treatments
In 2017, Hennie Thomson checked herself into a hospital for six weeks of in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa. She was ...
How artificial intelligence is helping diagnose rare diseases
Many sufferers of rare diseases endure an odyssey until the correct diagnosis is made. "The goal is to detect such ...
‘Eye color is as specific as a thumbprint’: Why your eyes are completely unique
As recently as the aughts, it was believed that eye color was determined by a single gene — brown, dominant; ...
How culture and technology are shaping human evolution
Cultural changes are likely affecting modern human evolution in ways we don’t yet understand. For example, research has shown that ...
Cure for cancer? Two patients leukemia free a decade after breakthrough gene therapy
Penn researchers in 2010 treated their first chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with CAR-T therapy, which uses the body’s own immune ...
‘Unproven and unethical’: Ethicists raise questions about human embryo risk analysis tests
Experts have warned against the “unproven” and “unethical” use of genetic tests to predict the risk of complex diseases in ...