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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Could modern influenza outbreaks escalate into devastating pandemics like the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’?
It is unlikely that we will ever experience anything like the 1918 outbreak, but researchers say we could see outbreaks ...
Hope for peanut allergy sufferers: Gene-silenced hypoallergenic nuts could save lives
Moving to the United States helped [Hortense Dodo, a food scientist and entrepreneur from Ivory Coast] reach her academic goals, but ...
Hot stuff: Do human pheromones really exist?
Some companies, such as the Athena Institute, which, according to its founder, Winnifred Cutler, published its 108th consecutive ad in The Atlantic this month, ...
Sunshine and green spaces could be prescription for teen depression
Exposure to trees and other greenery has been shown to stave off depression in adults, and a new study finds ...
What do zombie movies tell us about our changing attitudes towards science?
There is no better barometer of the values and fears of our society than the monsters our culture creates... What ...
Ancient poison used for arrows could lead to male birth control pills
According to scientists, a poison arrow in the quiver may let loose a very sticky nether-region massacre. The poison in ...
‘An awful lot of spit’: Consumer DNA test market booms as consumers ‘take control of their health’
When AncestryDNA sold some 1.5 million of its genetic testing kits over Black Friday weekend, it seemed like clear evidence that after ...
Why news of cloned monkeys doesn’t mean humans are next
Researchers in China reported on [January 24] that they have created two cloned monkeys, the first time that primates have ...
‘Personal omics’: Weight changes affect what’s happening in our gut, disease susceptibility
Gaining and losing weight causes extensive changes in the gut microbiota and in biomarkers related to inflammation and heart disease, ...
Human muscles from stem cells: Advance could aid research into muscular dystrophy, other diseases
Muscle created with stem cells is not quite as strong as the researchers would like. But they think these new ...
Broken barrier: Monkeys are first primates to be cloned
There have been mice and cows and pigs and camels, bunnies and bantengs and ferrets and dogs, but ever since ...
8 common cancers could be detected early with $500 blood test
A simple-to-take test that tells if you have a tumor lurking, and even where it is in your body, is ...
Solving a riddle: ‘Dark matter’ DNA shown to influence brain development
A puzzle posed by segments of 'dark matter' in genomes — long, winding strands of DNA with no obvious functions ...
Nation’s expanding waistline linked to increase in 13 types of cancer
It's common knowledge that as a country, we've been getting fatter for decades. In some states the prevalence of obesity ...
Marijuana genome map promises to unlock potential of ‘magical’ plant
The fledgling cannabis industry is full of wide-eyed claims about what pot can do. Outperform your favorite energy drink? Maybe. Cure ...
Report: ‘Little doubt’ GMOs increase crop yields
Editor's note: Gary Brester is a professor of agricultural economics at Montana State University Some have questioned whether GM crops ...
Preventing pandemics and the quest for an influenza ‘super-shot’
A century after one of history’s most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like ...
Killing cancer cells with the body’s own internal clock
Women who work night shifts have substantially higher risks of breast, digestive system, and skin cancers, a recent study found ...
Figuring out what a memory looks like in the brain
[Janice] Chen and her colleagues found something odd when they scanned viewers’ brains: as different people retold their own versions ...
Hope for Huntington’s disease? New therapy shows promise in early trial
Huntington’s has no cure. Over decades biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into developing and testing pharmaceuticals for these ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to take a harder look at sugar’s connection to the diabetes epidemic
Discussions about the global epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes tend to assume that these are new phenomena...In the ...
Glyphosate herbicide harms human gut microbiome? ‘Not biologically plausible’
[O]n numerous occasions I have heard glyphosate critics argue that glyphosate should be opposed because it might alter the microbiome ...
Rural-urban divide: Groundbreaking gene therapies could exacerbate inequality in cancer care
Two new cancer treatments have shown miraculous cures, but if you happen to live in Arkansas or Montana, or a ...
Depression and epilepsy may share same genetic roots
From the time of Hippocrates, physicians have suspected a link between epilepsy and depression. Now, for the first time, scientists ...
Learning what Alzheimer’s does to the brain could lead to personalized treatments
Researchers are learning more about the causes and progression of the disease. This leads them to suggest that new treatment ...
MERS treatment could come from genetically engineered cows
Human antibodies made in genetically engineered cows have proved safe in an early stage clinical trial...and could be developed into ...
Why this winter’s flu is wreaking so much havoc
To put it flatly, H3N2 is the problem child of seasonal flu. It causes more deaths than the other influenza ...
