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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Climate change won’t ‘invariably’ cause social collapse—it’s a lot more complicated than that
Currently, global planning bodies are working on their responses to climate and environmental change and public health concerns. Unfortunately, these ...
How GMO and CRISPR gene-edited plants are playing key roles in developing coronavirus vaccines and treatments
Questions about the origin of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) were raised, and some even speculated that the virus is a ...
Not all children are safe from COVID-19: Mysterious childhood illness similar to Kawasaki disease linked to coronavirus
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory to thousands of doctors across the country [May ...
Infographic: Why are women less likely to die from coronavirus?
Gender-specific observations and implications for COVID-19 paired with global reported cases indicate men are 50% to 80% more likely to ...
Is IVF an essential medical procedure during a pandemic?
The pandemic confronts patients and health-care providers with new ethical dilemmas. Is it too risky to pursue a fertility procedure ...
‘Skin hunger’: That burning desire for human contact supercharged by the coronavirus pandemic
Once a week, Alice, who lives alone, walks to the end of her garden to meet her best friend Lucy ...
Viewpoint: The real ‘dirty dozen’? 12 organic foods that could make you sick in 2020
It is that time of year again. The Environmental Working Group put out their annual list of food it considers ...
‘High-stakes information battle’ brewing over which coronavirus experts to trust
Determining who is an authoritative figure worth amplifying is more challenging than ever. Curated, personalized feeds enable bespoke realities. Trump ...
Anti-vaccine online movement targeting undecided groups in social media, spreading disinformation about safety and coronavirus containment efforts, study warns
As scientists work to create a vaccine against COVID-19, a small but fervent anti-vaccination movement is marshalling against it. Campaigners ...
Podcast: COVID-19 a global communist plot? Glyphosate didn’t cause the pandemic. Time to embrace agricultural biotechnology.
While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...
Capturing ‘nuance’: Studying single cells—rather than millions—is changing our understanding of biology
There are roughly 37 trillion cells in the human body, and each keeps us alive in some small way. There ...
Unanswered COVID-19 questions multiply: Why some people get really sick and others not? Does social distancing really matter? Are models right?
In a pandemic characterized by extreme uncertainty, one of the few things experts know for sure is the identity of ...
How Sweden avoided a lockdown and a large coronavirus outbreak
Trust is high in Sweden — in government, institutions and fellow Swedes. When the government defied conventional wisdom and refused ...
‘Enormous potential’: Recently discovered microbe could protect mosquitoes from malaria
Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the ...
She’s baaaack! ‘Plandemic’ anti-vaccine disinformation ‘star’ Judy Mikovits now warning glyphosate, GMOs boost COVID-19 risk
[In early May], I wrote about Plandemic, a viral video featuring disgraced scientist turned antivaxxer turned COVID-19 “Fire Fauci” conspiracy ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what a win against the coronavirus looks like. It’s not pretty
If you’ve been marking the pandemic by the pileup of cautious reopenings and rescheduled events, you might think that an ...
‘Female genetic superiority’? How two X chromosomes give women an edge against coronavirus
It was noticeable from the initial outbreak in Wuhan that Covid-19 was killing more men than women. By February, data ...
Searching for a biomarker to predict which coronavirus patients are at risk for severe symptoms
Respiratory physician Dr. David Darley says something peculiar happens to a small group of Covid-19 patients on day seven of ...
Podcast: We need a vaccine ‘Manhattan Project’ to defeat COVID-19
The only way to truly end the novel coronavirus pandemic is to develop an effective vaccine. And while there are ...
EPA approves GM mosquito trial in Florida Keys to combat zika virus and dengue fever
A plan to test genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys has received approval from the federal government. For more ...
Viewpoint: Taking vitamin D is the ‘least crackpot’ of the coronavirus nutrition ideas
For the most part, supplements are a waste of money at best and harmful at worst. But could vitamin D ...
‘Denial, blame, and conspiratorial thinking’: Anti-vaxxers’ dangerous rhetoric during coronavirus pandemic
So far, the responses from major players wear down a familiar path of conspiratorial thinking and government mistrust ...
‘The fittest among us?’: Why are preteens at lowest risk from coronavirus?
Although the estimation of mortality and morbidity rates caused by pandemics is fraught with difficulty, a trend seems to emerge ...
Do our genes affect vulnerability to the coronavirus?
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic several months ago, scientists have been puzzling over the different ways the disease ...
Plant-based beef ingredients from China may hurt Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat sales
While America's biggest beef and pork producers were nearly laid low in April by COVID-19 cases in their workforce, sales ...
Podcast: GMOs = witchcraft? ‘Big Ag’ didn’t cause coronavirus; Remdesivir for COVID-19
We finally have a drug to treat COVID-19 in remdesivir, but how well does it work? Anti-GMO activists have blamed ...
Glyphosate to blame for COVID-19? Here’s how we know Bayer’s weedkiller didn’t cause the pandemic
An MIT computer scientist with no expertise in agriculture, chemistry, toxicology, or the biological sciences. And yet for some reason, ...
