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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Why evolution does not weed out all genetic diseases
To anyone with a basic understanding of evolution, it should seem puzzling that deadly genetic diseases, passed on from one generation to ...
Is society ready or willing to embrace an Artificial Intelligence deity?
Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley ...
Collapsing bubbles may have given rise to life
The origin of life is a profound mystery. Once life arose, natural selection and evolution took over, but the question ...
Tick tock, circadian clock research wins Nobel Prize—and why it may help us sleep and travel to Mars
Our clock system is in organisms across the planet. Better understanding of our internal body rhythms may help pave the ...
1 in 4 cancer patients turn to medical marijuana for relief
One of the most well-known purported uses for medical marijuana is to alleviate symptoms related to cancer treatment, and a ...
CRISPR shows promise against a ‘range of disorders’ in animal studies
The race is on to edit the DNA in our body to fight or prevent disease. Promising results from animal ...
Here’s what we do and don’t know about pornography and violence
Porn has transformed over the past few decades, due to the availability of the internet and faster web connections. […] ...
Calls to ban glyphosate, neonics highlight need to ‘protect science’, say French corn farmers
At a meeting hosted on Wednesday [27 September] by CEPM, the maize lobby in Europe, maize farmers stressed the need ...
Russia trying to reduce dependence on imported seeds—without GMOs
Many growers use specialized seeds designed to resist pests, disease and drought, but more than half for some crops come ...
Flu vaccine works better on some younger people—if you have the right genetics
Nine genes are tied to a strong immune response to the flu vaccine in people 35 and under, a new ...
Treating aggressive brain cancer with poliovirus
The idea of using a modified poliovirus as a treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer isn't new. But recent research shows ...
European Commission works to garner support for glyphosate herbicide re-authorization
The European Commission is exploring ways to bridge the gap between different member state requests regarding the re-authorization of the ...
Scientist who found no glyphosate in breast milk faced anti-pesticide activist attacks
[Editor's note: Karl Haro von Mogel has a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.] ...
Fighting malaria: Genetic modification offers two promising tools
In the annals of deadly diseases, few have plagued humankind as viciously as malaria. ...But the disease continues to take ...
What causes autism? It’s mostly genetic, study says
For a condition as complex as autism, it’s almost certain that both genes and environment play an important role. But teasing apart ...
Your DNA may have been altered by childhood stress and traumas
[W]e’re finding out that our DNA isn’t always set in stone. Now, a team of researchers from Northwestern University led ...
Edible ‘CRISPR pill’ could make harmful bacteria self-destruct
As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, a ...
Insomnia cures: Do drug remedies provide the kind of sleep that our brain needs?
People spend billions on sleep remedies. The act of sleep and artificially assisting sleep are not on the whole a ...
15 years in vegetative slumber, man stirs after brain stimulation
Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35-year-old Frenchman ...
What the GMO labeling law means for consumers
[Editor’s note: Gregory Jaffe is the Director of the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public ...
High supplies and low prices: Does the world really need more corn?
Monsanto Co is working to develop what it hopes will be North America’s fastest-maturing corn, allowing farmers to grow more ...
Viewpoint: Restrictions on GMOs a ‘catastrophe’ for Australian farmers
Onerous and expensive regulations have denied farmers’ access to new and existing Genetically Modified (GM) crop varieties and reduced their ...
Uganda on track to pass ‘biotech bill’ that should pave way for GMO crop commercialization
Uganda’s long-awaited national Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill was delayed again yesterday, but is likely to be passed next Tuesday [Oct ...
Male contraceptive breakthrough? ‘Birth control gel’ ready for couples study
The creators of a male birth control gel designed to inhibit sperm production—while maintaining healthy testosterone levels in the bloodstream—will ...
Beta-thalassemia blood disorder removed from human embryo with gene editing
Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told ...
Viewpoint: Politico exaggerated link between climate change and food ‘nutrient collapse’
Politico offered the following headline, The great nutrient collapse, The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the ...
CRISPR gene-edited wheat safe for celiac sufferers on horizon
People forced to avoid gluten could soon have their bread (and cake) and eat it. Now there are strains of wheat that ...
