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Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Racial biodiversity: Indigenous people offer opportunity to understand how genetic mutations evolve
[Editor's note: Keolu Fox is a biomedical researcher studying indigenous people.] Ninety-five percent of all drugs [are tested] only on ...
Stress defense: Your biological clock activates protective genes as you age
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that a subset of genes involved in daily circadian rhythms, or the "biological ...
Excessive hand washing? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) linked to gene mutations associated with autism
We know obsessive-compulsive disorder has a genetic basis, and now researchers are digging into our DNA to figure out exactly ...
Muscle-wasting disease in dogs cured using gene therapy, offering hope to suffering boys
For decades, some unlucky dog lovers have [witnessed their puppies'] seemingly healthy muscles literally waste away...until they could no longer stand ...
Eczema-taming ointment could be made with bacteria from your own skin
Teruaki Nakatsuji and Richard Gallo from the University of California, San Diego, have discovered that some bacteria which naturally live ...
Google delisted Mike Adams’ Natural News website for ‘sneaky’ marketing, not content
It became apparent that “Natural News” had been removed from Google search results on February 22 [2017]. The website did ...
Cancer patients can learn ‘good and bad news’ by sequencing their disease genome
Advances in genomics and molecular biology have revealed that cancer is surprisingly, shockingly diverse...Each one can be defined by a ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Dolly the sheep and aging. Epigenetics is not genetics. Obstacles to gene editing.
This week’s features include: a clinic that doesn't know the difference between epigenetics and genetics; lessons about aging from Dolly ...
Super pigs: CRISPR gene-edited virus-resistant pigs could cut piglet deaths, pork prices
Scientists have created a new breed of super pigs resistant to a killer virus... They now have two generations of ...
To test or not to test? When is genetic screening for diseases a smart move?
Hundreds of prescription genetic tests are now available for everything from depression to cancer to Alzheimer’s disease. Such testing does ...
Is your body shaped like an apple? It’s probably ‘in the genes’ and it could pose health risks
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has found that a pattern of gene variants associated with an “apple-shaped” ...
Can personalized medicine help those with chronic diseases that have environmental triggers?
[Editor's note: Sharon Horesh Bergquist is a physician, teacher, researcher in preventive medicine and healthy aging at Emory University] Personalized ...
Diabetes linked to ‘junk’ DNA previously thought to have no function
[A]mong the thousands of genes which code for vital proteins, hidden in plain sight are much vaster chunks of non-coding ...
Whole Foods, Patagonia, Clif Bar school lunch program promotes misconceptions about pesticides, seed saving
[Editor's note: Stephan Neidenbach is a middle school teacher, father, and blogger.] The Conscious Kitchen program (funded by Patagonia, Clif ...
Should deaths in clinical trials deter experimental cancer treatment ‘CAR-T therapy’?
Editor's note: The author of this piece is Julie Guillot a fundraiser and advocate for the Children’s Oncology Group and other ...
Rice plants could be genetically tweaked to tame arsenic found in soil, reducing risk for humans
Rooted in place, plants can’t run away from arsenic-tainted soil — but they’re far from helpless. Scientists have identified enzymes ...
Why eating soy protects some of us but not others from heart disease
A product of digesting a micronutrient found in soy may hold the key to why some people seem to derive ...
Avoiding the unexpected: Zika, malaria-fighting gene drive in mosquitoes has built-in safety net
Concerns about CRISPR gene drives and other CRISPR applications have to do with the possibility that something could go wrong ...
Multiple sclerosis treatment could ‘reset’ immune system with stem cell therapy
New research provides further evidence of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis, after finding ...
Google delists Natural News, founder Mike Adams calls it ‘modern day book burning’
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s profile on Natural News founder Mike Adams. Also: FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams ...
Meditation may reduce anxiety, stress levels by altering brain’s white matter
Researchers believe they have created the world’s first mouse model of meditation by using light to trigger brain activity similar ...
Did Google do the right thing in blocking Natural News from searches?
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s profile on Natural News founder Mike Adams. Also: FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams ...
Men and breast cancer: What you should know about BRCA screening
In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie brought genetic testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) into the limelight by ...
Getting a head start: What parents can learn from prenatal genetic testing
{Editor's note: Excerpts are from an interview with Bonnie Rochman, science journalist and author of the book The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies ...
New frontier in fight against Alzheimer’s, epilepsy opens with discovery of learning mechanism
Researchers have discovered a brand new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in our brain communicate with each other ...
Tired of overeating? ‘Fullness’ gene could lead to appetite-supressing drug
Scientists claim to have discovered a gene that triggers a feeling of fullness and could help prevent the urge to ...
Autism could be detected as early as 1 year old, with MRI scans
Children with autism tend to be diagnosed around age 4, after a child begins to socialize and speak. But the earlier a ...
