Personalized Medicine
What neuroscience can tell us about PTSD and how to rewrite our memories
Fear and memory share many connections in the brain. By understanding that physiology and relationship, neuroscientist Daniela Schiller hopes to ...
Newly found mutations keep triglyceride levels low, thwart heart disease despite diet
Two major studies by leading research groups published on Wednesday independently identified mutations in a single gene that protect against ...
To fight aging, second languages and new hobbies may keep brain limber
We all know that exercise helps keep our hearts healthy, but what keeps our brains in top form? Researchers are ...
Free-DNA prenatal screenings greatly reducing use of amniocentesis
A simple blood test is transforming the world of prenatal screening, offering women a risk-free way to learn about fetal ...
Children from violent homes show accelerated aging of chromosomes
A new Tulane University School of Medicine study finds that the more fractured families are by domestic violence or trauma, ...
Gene-specific cancer treatment is common, but there are still some kinks
Elaine Mardis and her colleagues first encountered 39-year-old Lucy (not her real name) in 2010 at the Genome Institute at ...
Second mosquito genome targets dengue and yellow fever
Virginia Tech entomologists have developed a chromosome map for about half of the genome of the mosquito Aedes agypti, the ...
Genotyping not better than symptoms for picking stroke medication
Using a patient's genotype to guide the initial dosing of warfarin or its analogues does not appear to be better ...
Physician age, lack of education a major stumbling block to adopting genetics in practice
Insiders to genomics are looking around and bemoan the lack of forward progress on the clinical side of adoption. Why ...
‘Right to try’ law, for profit stem cells make Colorado wild West of non-FDA clinical trials
Colorado passed a new law supported by the ultra-conservative Goldwater Institute, the so-called Right To Try Law. This law allows ...
Italian stem cell ‘doctor’ selling snake oil to sick kids
A three-year-old Italian boy who suffers from a rare and incurable degenerative disorder called Krabbe disease received a stem cell ...
Chorus of neurons, singing together transfers messages in the brain
When a cartoon character gets an idea, you know it. A lightbulb goes on over Wile E. Coyote’s head, or ...
Children and Hispanics at highest risk for fatty liver disease
Despite major gains in fighting hepatitis C and other chronic liver conditions, public health officials are now faced with a ...
Dad’s dietary folate intake affects fetal health, too
Don’t drink, limit coffee and take your daily vitamins – the laundry list of rules for expectant moms and women ...
Pace of reproductive technology makes health effects hard to measure
Over the past 34 years, assisted reproduction like IVF has gone from exceptional to mainstream. The procedures have changed rapidly, ...
Little Lord Kahn and the edge of genome technology
An infant born earlier this month is the first known child to have his genome sequenced before birth. As more ...
How cells stick together when it’s needed, pull apart when not
When I was nine, biology gave me my first existential crisis. If I am built out of trillions of tiny ...
Mexican population has vast genetic diversity
The largest survey of Mexican genetics performed so far reveals tremendous diversity in the country. In some cases, the people ...
Examining families that include genetic donors
There is an increasing tendency to want to explain everything human, from stress, to being gay, or having a zest ...
Female hormone exposure may drive obesity in Western men
An imbalance of female sex hormones among men in Western nations may be contributing to high levels of male obesity, ...
California prisons’ illegal sterilization of female inmates a new eugenics?
I was sterilized in 1976 when I was 23 years old. My paternalistic doctor visited me the day after la ...
Jordanian stem cell law limits research to public academic institutions
In January, Jordan passed a law to control research and therapy using human stem cells derived from embryos — the ...
Sex-selective aboriton bans in US block racial groups from recieving care, new study says
Over the past five years, more than 60 sex-selection abortion bills have been introduced both at state and federal levels ...
UK health chief criticized for push to sequence all National Health users
GeneWatch UK today criticised a speech by the new NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, in which he reportedly argued ...
Privacy, security concerns still not resolved in for large scale genome sequencing
Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data. Genetic ...
Oxytocin may be secret hormone that fights aging
Oxytocin is best known for its role as a crucial human bonding hormone. A new study suggests it's also needed ...
Holocaust survivors studied to determine if trauma-induced mental illness can be inherited
On April 23, 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was 10 years old. Two weeks earlier, he ...