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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Macular degeneration patients see hope in embryonic stem cell treatment
Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular ...
As your testosterone levels go down, does empathy go up?
Charles Ryan has a clinic in San Francisco at which he regularly relieves men of their testosterone. This “chemical castration”, ...
5 biotechnologies that might help save endangered species
Here are five expanding and emergent fields of biotech that could help safeguard nature: 1. Biobanking. Biobanks store biological samples ...
Viewpoint: Autism research needs a better mouse
The autism risk genes discovered to date are especially amenable to study in mouse models. Mice have analogous versions of ...
Correlation study of 71 Indiana women suggests glyphosate in urine may be linked to shorter pregnancies
In what they claim is the first prospective birth cohort study of its kind, U.S. researchers have linked likely environmental ...
Can’t sleep? Chronic insomnia could be due to genetics
Researchers have identified specific genes that may trigger the development of sleep problems, and have also demonstrated a genetic link ...
‘All of Us’: NIH biobank set to collect genomes of 1 million people to address chronic diseases
This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever ...
Possible breakthrough in one-a-day male birth control pill?
One of the latest experimental candidates for a male birth control drug is a compound that would be taken much ...
Fertility clinic meltdown: What happens when slumbering eggs are awakened early
Fragile spindle apparatuses are an integral part to embryonic growth. What happened to embryo structures when they were thawed and ...
Viewpoint: Placebo effect ‘growing more powerful’, and here’s why
Over the last several years evidence has been accumulating that placebo effects are becoming more powerful. Clinical trials on a range of ...
Viewpoint: No, the placebo effect is not increasing, but bedside manners do impact perceived drug efficacy
[A] new article, published in Psychology Today, purports that the “Placebo Effect is Growing.” In the author’s words, “Over the ...
Abnormally large breasts in boys linked to ‘essential oils’ used in common shampoos, soaps and lotions
A suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys and the use of lavender and tea tree oils has ...
Men, women respond differently to genes linked to depression
In men and women diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the same genes show the opposite changes. In other words, the ...
Decades-old immunosuppressant drug rapamycin could extend life
In the 1990s, pharmacologist Dave Sharp of the University of Texas’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies in San ...
Why the body’s response to pregnancy may help us better understand cancer
Cancer cells and placental cells regulate the immune system in remarkably similar ways. We can learn a great deal by ...
How to avert an ‘antibiotic apocalypse’
The “Antibiotic Apocalypse” scenario, where drug-resistant bacteria end humanity, often seems to be somewhat inevitable, a process driven so strongly ...
Staying ‘highly physically fit’ could stave off dementia by nearly 90%
The intricacies behind what can cause dementia are still largely a mystery and highly debated. But a new study published [March ...
Thousand-year mind preservation with a twist: Startup Nectome’s procedure is ‘100 percent fatal’
The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been ...
Why don’t we yet have a universal flu vaccine?
By all accounts, the 2017–18 influenza season has been a bad one. It feels like everyone’s family has been hit, ...
Unexplained ailments? Genetic mutations may be responsible
Gregor Mendel discovered fundamental rules of genetics by raising pea plants. He realized that hidden factors — we now know ...
Strange case of the man with a ‘large black hole’ in part of his brain
When an 84-year-old man in Ireland showed up at the doctor with complaints about being unsteady, the team found a ...
Delving into the minds of psychopaths
It’s a rare person who goes out of their way to spend time with psychopaths, and a rarer one still ...
Fertility quest: How technology has fueled quantum leaps
Nanotech, artificial intelligence, wearables and biological engineering are among the new high tech ways to knock you up, stop your ...
Can Halo’s brain-zapping headsets improve athletic performance?
Equinox jumped at the chance to offer Halo Neuroscience’s brain-zapping, supposedly performance-enhancing headsets as part of its advanced personal training ...
Heart muscle patches: Reprogrammed blood cells might extend life of heart attack victims
Those who survive [a heart attack] are often left with permanent heart failure – a group which includes approximately 450,000 ...
Scientists question brain’s ‘regenerative’ capacity to boost cognition or treat injury
The observation that the human brain churns out new neurons throughout life is one of the biggest neuroscience discoveries of ...
Viewpoint: Exercise can be as effective as antidepressants for mild to moderate depression. So why do US doctors push pills?
Here’s the most important thing I learned while writing a book on running and mental health: In clinical studies, regular ...
