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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Blood test predicts autism with 90% accuracy
New research, published Sunday [Feb. 18] in the journal Molecular Autism, might provide one of the first steps needed toward developing an accurate ...
Growing human organs in sheep could help solve transplant shortage
Growing human organs inside other animals has taken another step away from science-fiction, with researchers announcing they have grown sheep ...
Keep hitting the gym: Exercise can help stave off brain deterioration
In recent years, there has been a groundswell of science-based evidence linking the triad of (1) brain health, (2) cognitive function, and (3) ...
Why biodiversity might not always be such a good thing for our health
While some think of the "dilution effect" as settled science, some ecologists argue that claiming conservation will broadly reduce disease ...
Why don’t more women pursue STEM fields? There’s no easy answer
Many academics in the modern world seem obsessed with the sex difference in engagement with science, technology, mathematics, and engineering ...
Breastfeeding breakthrough: Transgender woman is first to feed her baby
A 30-year-old transgender woman has become the first officially recorded to breastfeed her baby. An experimental three-and-a-half-month treatment regimen, which included hormones, a ...
With imaging advances, brain researchers no longer rely on cadavers and freak accidents
The increased use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a research tool could lead to better understanding of a wide ...
Melanoma mystery: Obese men undergoing immune-therapy survive longer than those with normal weight
Obese men with metastatic melanoma who are treated using targeted or immuno-therapies survive for more than twice as long as ...
Should we be treating autism with marijuana?
4-year-old Benjamin is repeatedly smashing his head against the wall. He spins wildly in circles, screeching at full volume. … ...
Viewpoint: From coffee to BPA to glyphosate, California activists misrepresent cancer risks
Coffee is only the latest example of a trend that has become all too common. Activists who profess concern for ...
Brain-machine interfaces: Biology and body upgrades on the way. How will we handle them?
Upgrading our biology may sound like science fiction, but attempts to improve humanity actually date back thousands of years. Every ...
End ‘yo-yo dieting’: Fat-burning molecular switch could block hunger impulse
Australian scientists have discovered a new molecular switch in our brains that controls fat burning – and by flicking it ...
Cancer quest: Moonshot initiative melds genetic data with supercomputers, but keep expectations in check
It’s been two years since the Cancer Moonshot Initiative was unveiled during President Obama’s final State of the Union speech ...
Stop flu symptoms in one day? Experimental pill could be available in the US by 2019
A new medicine can rid flu suffers of their symptoms in as little as a day, but the drug will ...
Digging in the dirt may yield new class of antibiotics
It might come as a surprise to learn that dirt, that canonical cause of infection, is also a megafactory for ...
Piecing together the complex puzzle of the brain’s decision-making functions
A group of 21 neuroscientists are joining forces in an effort to better understand how different parts of the brain ...
California may soon label coffee as a cancer risk—more than 100 studies suggest the opposite
In what's got to be the dumbest idea yet from the nanny state of California (sorry, guys, but it's true), coffee sold ...
Is there a link between autism spike and ultrasound tests?
[A]s ultrasound use has sharply increased, so too have diagnoses of autism—prompting questions about a potential relationship. A rigorous new ...
Can we boost memory through brain stimulation?
In a study appearing [February 6] in Nature Communications, [...] a team of researchers succeeded at enhancing memory more reliably, by stimulating ...
Harnessing bacteria like E. coli to dispense medicines shows promise, but hurdles remain
We’ve already seen the first cellular medicines, human immune cells genetically reprogrammed to attack cancer cells. Now the first bacterial medicines ...
Lab-grown human eggs may offer hope for the infertile
In a landmark development, scientists have been able to replicate the process where egg cells mature in the ovaries outside ...
Viewpoint: Your family should know if any of your genetic mutations are linked to cancer
Editor's note: Charité Ricker is a cancer genetic counselor at the University of Southern California For 15 years I have counseled patients ...
Why electrical brain stimulation to enhance memory or relieve depression may not work
[S]cientists and hobbyists alike look for ways to change the activity of neurons without cutting into the brain and implanting ...
Viewpoint: This flu season is a ‘wake-up call’—we need a universal flu vaccine
Editor's note: Henry I. Miller, a physician, molecular biologist and former flu virus researcher, is the Robert Wesson fellow in scientific ...
3-parent embryos: UK doctors identify two women to undergo breakthrough, controversial procedure
Doctors in Newcastle have been granted permission to create Britain’s first “three-person babies” for two women who are at risk ...
Is there a difference in the toxic effects of glyphosate versus herbicides like Roundup that include surfactants?
Glyphosate is rarely used on its own in the field. Herbicide formulations as a whole include a variety of other ...
Viewpoint: Self-diagnosed celiac disease is just the latest diet obsession of wealthy white people
There are people who are allergic to gluten. But the recent surge in self-diagnosed Celiac sufferers is little more than ...
