Health
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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Neurons have surprising amount of genomic diversity
Our brains contain a surprising diversity of DNA. Even though we are taught that every cell in our body has ...
Should FDA crack down on stem cell clinics?
Stem cell clinics operating in the U.S. market cures for nearly every kind of disorder without evidence they work or ...
Study linking gene mutation with multiple sclerosis faces brutal criticism
Scientists are forcefully challenging a recent study that claimed to identify a rare genetic mutation that sharply boosted the risk ...
Gene sequencing delivers relief to patients searching endlessly for answers
Now more affordable than ever, [gene sequencing] is making headway in diagnosing rare diseases, giving patients answers to medical mysteries ...
How will we use gene editing to treat human disease?
Technology for safe effective germline editing is not ready yet, but once it is, these are some of things we ...
MIND Institute aims to conduct massive study on genetics of autism
Researchers at the MIND Institute are now examining the DNA of families whose children have autism to learn more about ...
Video: CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna gives her thoughts on future of gene editing
For the past several years, CRISPR has made headlines all over the world as a revolutionary, biotechnological tool. Now, UC ...
Gene editing raises concerns about furthering divide between rich and poor
Scientists are pioneering the ability to tweak our DNA to wipe out disease and maybe even allow us to choose ...
US regulations creating confusion for regulation of GMO mosquitos
The number of [Zika] cases in the United States is continuing to increase, as are the known modes of transmission...One ...
Nationwide survey indicates American’s enthusiasm for precision medicine
When precision medicine ended my 23-year struggle with kidney cancer, I made it my mission to make individualized health care ...
Does low IQ correlate with prejudicial thinking?
There's a long-standing and somewhat uncomfortable finding in psychology: that low IQ, conservative social beliefs and prejudice — including anti-gay ...
Looking back on how science has progressed in sexuality and gender
For complex, complicated questions concerning the nature of human sexuality, there exists at best provisional scientific consensus; much remains unknown, ...
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis shuts down its gene therapy research
Healthcare company Novartis has either fired or reassigned roughly 400 researchers previously tasked with developing cell and gene therapies. While ...
Specific neurons may code for social learning in humans
At least one type of social learning, or the ability to learn from observing others’ actions, is processed by individual ...
Nation’s top scientists present recommendations for Obama’s cancer moonshot
A panel of top scientists is urging the Obama administration to bet big on tumor profiling and immunotherapy treatments in its ...
Federal investigation throws doubt on Luminosity’s supposed IQ benefits
The brain-training giant Lumosity is recalibrating its strategy and facing new challenges as it reels from a federal crackdown on bold ...
Should parents elect not to pass down their genetic disabilities to their children?
I have a condition called X-linked hypophosphatemia, or XLH, which results in a form of dwarfism. ... I have a ...
Personalized cancer treatments struggling to overcome patient deaths, severe side effects
The idea is tantalizing: Reengineer a patient’s own immune cells to attack the cancer that’s killing her. Scientists have proven ...
Online marketers target food stamp recipients, selling high-priced ‘organic and natural’ junk food
The federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.. offers nutrition assistance to...low income Americans.... SNAP helps people afford food at stores and ...
Scientists uncover our tongue’s sixth taste and why we love carbs
[C]arb cravings can be hard to resist[, but n]ow there’s evidence that carbohydrate-rich foods may elicit a unique taste too, ...
Understanding how to define and view gender identity
Another emerging and related view is that gender identity...is also fixed at birth or at a very early age and ...
How sexuality connects to mental health
[T]here is general agreement on the observation at the heart of Part Two: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) subpopulations ...
Could adult stem cell therapy revolutionize medicine?
[Rather than embryonic stem cells, t]he more exciting development...is the discovery that our own adult stem cells have a lot ...
Will gene editing lead to ‘biohackers’ creating biological weapons?
The security services are concerned that ‘biohackers’ — groups of ordinary people who use genome editing techniques to alter lifeforms ...
Bringing empirical science to how people view giftedness
Farrah Alexander...published an article...which she concluded[:] "Every child is gifted and talented. So let's stop distinguishing which children are gifted and ...
Gates Foundation doubling efforts to use CRISPR to create mosquito-killing technology
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that ...
Beyond BRCA: New, rare genes linked to breast cancer
Most women know about the BRCA 1 and 2 gene mutations and how they significantly increase a woman's chance of ...
