Health
Your genes may influence what microbes reside in your gut
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Microbial communities in the ...
Common genetic risk links autism, epilepsy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers observed decades ago ...
Does promise of germline therapy warrant risks?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetic engineering of ...
Children of older dads at higher risk for psychiatric disorders: Is mutated sperm to blame?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ever since it was ...
With National Academies’ GMO report, is debate concerning safety to humans over?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last week, the prestigious ...
It’s too early to draw conclusions about how epigenetics affects health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a recent study, ...
Asymptomatic Zika infections complicate efforts to stop spread
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zika infection in a ...
Microbiome research needs international database for data storage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
Scientists discover potential solution to antibiotic resistant bacteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists at Harvard say ...
Candy-flavored ADHD drug has doctors concerned over potential for abuse
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Adzenys, as the chewable, ...
Amish use GMOs, pesticides yet cancer rates remain very low
Amish farmers may not get cancer as much, but it's not because they don't use pesticides or GMOs. In fact, ...
Genes may be responsible for chronic pain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have long thought ...
Myriad Genetics under attack for withholding patients’ genetic data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic testing company Myriad ...
Talking Biotech: Roslin Institute’s Bruce Whitelaw using gene editing to develop virus resistant pig
Roslin Institute animal biotechnologist Bruce Whitelaw is genetically engineering pigs to resist the deadly African swine fever virus ...
Heard of CRISPR gene editing? It can save your life
Science is in the midst of a CRISPR craze as the technology is poised to improve treatment and prevention of ...
Genetic mutation linked to heart attacks inspires new drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Sean Harper took ...
ACLU files complaint against company that withheld genetic information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four people with a ...
Why is there no cure for sickle cell disease?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. David Williams very ...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria could kill 10 million every year by 2050
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Under instructions from U.K ...
LSD redux: Psychedelics may help brain functioning
Research on psychoactive drugs like LSD fell out of favor more than 40 years ago. Now, they're back and may ...
We still don’t really know what probiotics do
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Probiotics are having a ...
Former FDA GMO medical reviewer attacks IARC as “worst regulator ever”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recent articles by investigative journalist David ...
No evidence linking glyphosate, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A group of farmers is ...
Florida Keys residents divided over use of biotech mosquitoes in fight against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A biotech mosquito is ...
Genetics may contribute to when we lose our virginity, but other factors still dominate
Data now suggest genes involved in puberty and psychological development also affect when we start having sex, but how believable ...
Glyphosate, cancer confusion: Explaining WHO’s contradicting reports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Glyphosate poses no cancer ...
Requiring patient consent to use blood in research will hinder progress, scientists warn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists are warning that ...