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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GMOs 101: Experts break down the basics of crop biotechnology
An online search for “GMO” returns more than 88 million results — a tangled mess of frightening images, dense data, ...
Why some types of obesity are worse than others
Where you put on weight is as important as how much you put on ...
UN rejects gene drive moratorium, but agrees to some limits
Nations rejected a proposal to temporarily ban the release of organisms carrying gene drives — a genetic-engineering technology designed to ...
How tiny ‘organs-on-a-chip’ could transform medical research
Researchers have pioneered what may be the most accurate simulation of kidney function to-date ...
Countering severe peanut allergies through oral immunotherapy
Mom Monica Glover said the family discovered Ellis' peanut allergy when she was about 3. … Glover seized the opportunity ...
GMO cotton not to blame for farmer suicides in India, expert reconfirms to UN panel
An expert on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) from India has told a UN conference on biodiversity that GMO cotton growing ...
Low-gluten, high-fiber wheat varieties may begin to hit the market next year
Last winter, Paul Sproule read an article regarding niche wheats being developed by Arcadia Biosciences, a Davis, California, agricultural biotechnology ...
Bt insect-resistant crops don’t cause allergies, European safety oversight organization reaffirms
Following a request from the European Commission, [the European Food Safety Authority] assessed the scientific publication by Santos‐Vigil et al ...
‘Reprogramming’ skin cells to treat chronic wounds
By reprogramming wounded cells to a 'stem-cell-like' stage could help treat chronic sores ...
Change, resilience and the mysterious human microbiome
Our microbiome is an inner ecology of Planet Us. And thought of in that context, two new small, exploratory studies, may ...
Stem cells’ ‘memories’ of past injuries may contribute to chronic inflammation
Stem cells, famous for replenishing the body’s stockpile of other cell types throughout life, may have an additional, unforeseen ability ...
African nations push back against proposed UN ban on gene drives
Africa has kicked against a proposed moratorium on the environmental release of organisms containing gene drives now under debate at ...
New techniques could transform epigenetics research, ameliorating diseases
Epigenetics, the study of mechanisms by which genes are turned on or off without altering their genetic code or DNA ...
Video: Lab-grown human heart tissue beats ‘like the real thing’
A tiny pulsing strip of muscle could help save the lives of 33 million people. That’s how many people suffer ...
Does being a night owl increase breast cancer risk?
A paper presented at the National Cancer Research Institute [November 5] has made for some flashy headlines, like this confident declaration from India’s Economic Times: ...
Viewpoint: Why a Thanksgiving dinner using GMO ingredients is safer and healthier than an organic meal
Thanksgiving is upon us, which means families across the U.S. will soon be enjoying the most mouth-watering of meals. This ...
Personalized medicine, big data could lead to better control of our own health
At Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine conference in San Diego ... Dr. Ran Balicer, director of the Clalit Research Institute in Israel, painted a ...
Why our shrinking attention spans might be a good thing
Our supposedly shrinking attention spans are a hot topic these days—as you may have seen on TV or heard on a ...
Casting doubt on whether our DNA can be tweaked to increase human lifespan
Estimates predict that somewhere between 15 percent and 30 percent of the variability in human lifespan is due to genetics ...
Why probiotics could actually be bad for you
Millions of Americans take probiotics—live bacteria deemed useful—assuming there can be only positive effects. The truth is that you really ...
As arguments rage over the sources of transgender identity, science weighs in
Discussing gender dysphoria and brain differences in transgender populations ...
How a father’s stresses alter sperm and can ‘leave his children scarred’
A stressed-out and traumatized father can leave scars in his children. New research suggests this happens because sperm “learn” paternal ...
‘Baby bust’—Why fertility rates are plummeting around the world
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found ...
Brains of fetuses could suffer from exposure to marijuana
Marijuana has been legalized in some capacity in 31 U.S. states, in large part due to a softening stance around ...
Hypoallergenic foods: Genetic engineering could help prevent 30,000 US ER visits annually
Hortense Dodo has genetically engineered a hypoallergenic peanut. But she isn’t targeting people with peanut allergies. Not directly, anyway. ...
Meet Grunya Sukhareva, the forgotten woman who defined autism
[In 1924,] a gifted young doctor, Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva, saw [a 12-year-old] boy. Caring and attentive, she observed him with ...
Activists ‘storm’ Philippine Rice Research Institute to protest field trials of vitamin-fortified Golden Rice
A group of farmers [on November 7] stormed the headquarters of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) to protest the ...
