Personalized Medicine
Justice requires that forensic sciences be standardized to protect the innocent
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
Parán is a small dusty village in the foothills of the Andes in Peru, and for a long time, everyone ...
Wisconsin allows police to track rape suspects through relatives’ DNA
Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure — to ...
“Outbreak” redux: Is lab research on influenza worth the risk of a pandemic?
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 ...
Marmosets offer clue to human stillbirths, programmed while mom is in grandma’s womb
One way to learn about reproductive health is to observe how our primate cousins have babies. And a new study ...
Bum knees? Sports stars like CC Sabathia find success in experimental stem cell treatments
CC Sabathia, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, is making $23 million this year, and the same or ...
DNA of colorblindness: One woman’s take on how the genetic lottery shaped her family
My 7-year-old son has fallen in love with Rainbow Loom, the wildly popular sets of pegs and rubber bands kids ...
Father’s age may be overblown as risk factor for autism
It’s difficult to pick up a newspaper these days and not see a reference to the apparent increase in the ...
After mapping human genome, scientists release catalog of proteins that help make them work
Two teams of scientists are publishing first drafts of the human proteome. The proteome is a catalog of all of ...
Personalized precision cancer treatments tailored to your genes improving but hurdles high
Elaine Mardis and her colleagues first encountered 39-year-old Lucy in 2010 at the Genome Institute at Washington University in St ...
Gene therapy hot again as success stories roll in
In the early 2000s, gene therapy seemed to be on life support. The once-promising technique, which uses engineered viruses and ...
23andMe CEO discusses future of direct-to-consumer genetic testing company
Six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration ordered 23andMe, the Google-backed genetic-testing startup, to stop selling saliva kits designed ...
Circadian rhythm of water transport protein affects skin cycles throughout the day
Researchers have discovered a protein that regulates the circadian ebb and flow of water in and out of the skin's ...
Old immunotherapy drug revived with some treatment tweeks
When Dave deBronkart was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer in 2007, he learned about a treatment called high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) ...
Genetic susceptibility and well-timed exposures responsible for adult allergies
Allergies are largely genetic. If a parent has allergies, chances are good the children will too. But that doesn't necessarily ...
Antibiotics can harm even when they work, contributing to allergies, diabetes, maybe autism
Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs. New Scientist has ...
Cold case: Cryogenics may enter modern emergency care
Cryogenic preservation has long been fodder for science fiction films. But, emergency room doctors in Pittsburgh hope to save severely ...
As reproductive technology charges ahead, legislative and ethical oversight flounders
Technology to assist human reproduction is growing quickly and without much government oversight. As these options expand past creating unorthodox ...
Non-celiac gluten senstivity disproven in experiment
By now, you’ve probably heard of gluten-free diets. They’re a necessity for the estimated 2 million Americans with celiac disease ...
Geneticist’s take on cystic fibrosis gene therapy
I’m at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy annual meeting, one of my favorite conferences. The very first ...
Connection between pain and aging may lead through matabolic genes
Age brings pain: back pain, eye strain, sore joints, and the like. And pain, too, seems to accelerate aging. Several ...
Gene determines size of fat cells, might help treatments for insulin resistance
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have for the first time identified a gene driving the development of pernicious adipose ...
Baby’s microbiome may come from mom’s mouth via placenta
Babies in the womb are not as sheltered from the outside world as you might think. The placenta harbours a ...
Disabling a gene that breaks down insulin may help treat Type 2 diabetes
A long-sought target in the treatment of diabetes is coming into focus, as researchers report the discovery of a molecule ...
Did humans evolve to coexist with HPV? New study suggests maybe
In what is believed to be the largest and most detailed genetic analysis of its kind, researchers at NYU Langone ...
“Aliens of the sea” show there’s more than one way to build a brain
Comb jellies are surreal creatures that are more unique than previously thought; they appear to have evolved their own brains ...