Health & Medicine
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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Here’s a checklist for knowing when you are safe to get a COVID vaccine
Scientists around the world are currently undertaking one of the fastest vaccine-development programs in history, trying to get the novel ...
‘Least desirable guest at any party’: Botched US COVID response puts Olympic participation in danger
[The U.S.] usually has the largest contingent of athletes at the Summer Games. And it’s the highest-value single market for ...
Contemplating human extinction
Whether designer pathogen or malicious AI, we now recognize many ways to die. But when did people first start actually ...
Spillover effect: Could GMO disinformation shake public trust in other scientific innovations?
In 2016, the World Economic Forum listed online digital misinformation as one of the leading threats to modern societies. Campaigns ...
Viewpoint: There are only two sexes. That doesn’t invalidate the biological reality of transgenderism
There’s no need to reject how biologists define the sexes to defend the view that trans women are women. When ...
Will COVID cause complications for decades?
By now the story of how new viral threats emerge should be familiar – the close contact with infected animals, ...
Viewpoint: Animals vs plants? Stop fighting about where your protein comes from and eat a balanced diet
With a feeling of uncertainty infiltrating our lives lately, many of us are looking for concrete information to help us ...
Explaining the overlap in gender and sexuality in autistic individuals
In the 1990s, as growing numbers of children sought care related to their gender identity, clinicians and researchers began to ...
Epidemics helped shape the Americas. Blame Columbus and Europeans
The coronavirus pandemic has been compared with many previous contagions, including the great plague and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. However, there ...
COVID ‘infodemic’: 38 million article Cornell study finds President Trump ‘largest driver’ of coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories
Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: ...
Vaccine distribution logistics, not vaccine development, may pose highest hurdle to achieving COVID herd immunity
Importantly, creating the vaccine is just one step. We then need to distribute it. Because while vaccinating everyone is impossible, ...
5 ways the CDC is wrong in equivocating on airborne spread of COVID particles
Scientists have been warning for months that the coronavirus could be spread by aerosols – tiny respiratory droplets that people emit ...
Aging and lonely? You are more susceptible to type 2 diabetes
A fifth of adults in the UK and a third of adults in the USA report feeling lonely sometimes. There ...
Colorants used in tattoos could play a role in detecting cancer
Currently, only three dyes with fluorescent properties used as optical imaging contrast agents—methylene blue, indocyanine green and fluorescein—are approved for ...
How COVID-19 resembles a sexually transmitted disease
Viruses walk a fine line between severity and transmissibility. If they are too virulent, they kill or incapacitate their hosts; ...
How do we know GM crops don’t harm people with food allergies?
Genetically modified crops can offer a range of environmental and health benefits, such as reduced usage of chemical pesticides, improved ...
2% of us carry Neanderthal genes. We are at greater risk for COVID
Scientists have claimed that a strand of DNA that triples the risk of developing severe Covid-19 was passed on from ...
The genetics of poop and how it can help our health – and threaten our privacy
Everyone pees and poops. We excrete metabolites, vitamins, microbes, and even our own cells. This information makes its way into ...
The crisis facing Black women giving birth
From the rich and famous to the less well-to-do, Black mothers are often not listened to when they report signs ...
The Goldilocks phenomenon: Why as many as 45% of patients get COVID and show no symptoms
One of the reasons Covid-19 has spread so swiftly around the globe is that for the first days after infection, ...
Don’t expect closure on the pandemic. COVID is here for a while even if vaccines prove to work
Whatever the end of the pandemic might look like, the United States is nowhere close to it at the moment; week ...
Podcast: Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser; Experts spread misinformation, too; Fasting a fad diet?
Just-released courtroom drama 'Percy' tells the David vs. Goliath story of a Canadian farmer's battle against Monsanto. Did the film ...
Chilling news from Italy’s COVID epicenter: 5 months after infection, half of survivors still suffer symptoms
Six months ago, Bergamo was a startling warning sign of the virus’s fury, a city where sirens rang through the night and ...
50 straight years: Japan again sets new centenarian record at 80,450, almost all women
As of mid-September 2020, there are 80,450 centenarians in Japan. This is the largest number ever, a record that has ...
Regenerative medicine and war: The next breakthrough in treating injured veterans?
Many Americans, and indeed people all over the world, were outraged when reports surfaced this past summer that President Trump ...
COVID or the flu? How can you tell the difference?
Some symptoms of flu—as well as colds and other autumn ailments—are similar to Covid’s, making it harder to know what’s wrong ...
Can we predict where dangerous animal-borne viruses will appear next?
[G]iven good data, [Ebola, a] notoriously unpredictable zoonotic – or animal-borne – disease, which is passed to humans via primates ...
