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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Can CRISPR gene editing give us an allergy-free cat?
If you’re among the 10% of people who are allergic to cats, you can blame a protein found in cat ...
‘Microbe maps’: Swabbing subways, ATMs and park benches to find coronavirus hot spots
Nearly a decade ago, after watching his young daughter lick a pole in a subway car, computational biologist Christopher Mason ...
‘Increasingly confident’: Children less vulnerable to coronavirus, numerous studies say
Doctors are increasingly confident that children are less affected by the new coronavirus than adults, a finding that could aid ...
Animal breeding advances yield disease-resistant chickens to combat hunger in Africa
In many low and middle-income countries, indigenous chickens are an integral part of the farming system and are an important ...
Coronavirus romance: Is it healthy for isolating couples to have so much together time?
In the wake of COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders, young couples may find themselves spending more time with each ...
Podcast: ‘Food bullying’ fear of GMO insulin parallels skepticism of biotech crops
Our guest, Heather Barnes, tells parents, “You are doing great.” Having a child with different dietary needs opens the door ...
Coronavirus opens door for expanded use of artificial intelligence at hospitals
The Royal Bolton Hospital is among a growing number of health-care facilities around the world that are turning to AI ...
Is life worth living after 75? Why this medical ethicist isn’t a fan of extending the human life span
In October 2014, [physician and medical ethicist] Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to ...
How to use your brain to keep food cravings from turning into eating
Many believe that cravings are caused by low blood sugar, or that the body lacks certain other nutrients. In the ...
Coronavirus ‘relapses’ in South Korea blamed on faulty tests detecting ‘dead virus fragments’
Scientists said the wave of South Koreans who tested positive for COVID-19 even after they recovered did not have the ...
Anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO lobby double down on COVID China conspiracy theory
As the World Health Organization warns of a misinformation “infodemic,” anti-science groups around the world are doubling down on a ...
Viewpoint: ‘Just plain bad science’: FOX News promotes ‘pseudoscience’ COVID-19 fatality study by California ‘fake experts’
There’s a pandemic of more than just COVID-19 right now. There’s also a pandemic of pseudoscience, misinformation, disinformation, and just ...
Is the lockdown an overreaction? Uproar over epidemiologist John Ioannidis’ study minimizing coronavirus risks
For his Covid-19 work, the Stanford scientist John Ioannidis is being accused of the same bad science he has criticized ...
11 GMO, gene-edited animals and plants that will help us battle hunger and disease
The Genetic modification of foods, organisms, and animals, is very controversial, for quite obvious reasons. And yet, the practice has ...
Want fewer pandemics? Intensify agriculture to combat hunger—the root cause of disease spread
A number of activists and opinion writers have recently argued that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be traced ...
Does ‘factory farming’ increase our risk of experiencing pandemics?
Some experts have hypothesized that the novel coronavirus made the jump from animals to humans in China’s wet markets, just ...
‘A cleaner kill’: Harnessing the body’s immune system to battle cancer
What if your immune system could kill cancers in the same way it does colds and flu? This concept may ...
How a 19th-century typhus outbreak helped doctors fight the coronavirus and other pandemics
It was a truism among 19th-century physicians that, in the words of German epidemiologist August Hirsch, “[t]he history of typhus ...
Coronavirus outbreak fuels surging plant-based meat demand in China
Demand for plant-based protein foods is surging in Asia, suppliers say, as suspicion over possible links between wild animal meat ...
Video: Exploring the natural events that created the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has changed our day-to-day life as we know it – but how did the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) ...
Searching coronavirus patient DNA to learn why some people are hit harder than others
Among the many mysteries that remain about COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is why it hits some ...
Viewpoint: Blame the coronavirus on ‘industrial agriculture’? We need more, not less of it to stave off the next viral pandemic
An internet meme is circulating worldwide in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic: “Every disaster starts with a scientist being ...
‘Dogs are still the best’: But can a machine be taught to detect ovarian cancer with a ‘sniff’?
The ultimate goal was to develop an instrument that mimicked the abilities of a dog’s nose—a tool to detect the ...
Our wastewater could provide ‘early warning’ system for coronavirus outbreaks
We won’t have to shelter from the new coronavirus forever. ... But several predictors of Covid-19 outbreaks suggest the virus ...
Camelina vs. canola: Which GMO crop offers more sustainable source of omega-3 fish oils?
Field trials of a plant genetically modified to produce omega-3 normally sourced from fish oil have shown that it can ...
Searching for genetic fountain of youth? Study suggests we’ll never find a ‘longevity gene’
What do naked mole rats, elephants, bats and whales have in common? They are all exceptionally long-lived mammals, and recent ...
Viewpoint: ‘Big Ag’ caused the coronavirus pandemic? Predatory science journal amplifies baseless COVID-19 conspiracy
With the global pandemic caused by Covid-19, agricultural supply chains around the world have been taxed to ensure consistent and ...
