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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22 genes linked to increased intelligence
Genome-wide association studies—GWAS, for short, […] search for differences in people’s genetic makeup—their “genotypes”—that correlate with differences in their observable ...
Pesticide used on organic farms may cause breathing problems in farmworkers’ children
Elemental sulfur, the most heavily-used pesticide in California, may harm the respiratory health of children living near farms that use ...
Can we stop drug addiction with vaccines?
Between 2000 and 2015 half a million people in America alone died of drug overdoses...On August 8th Tom Price, the ...
Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Agriculture supporters need to stand up to GMO fearmongering
Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal geneticist at the University of California-Davis, told the Idaho Milk Processors Association annual conference there ...
Infographic: Why single out GMOs—one of many forms of crop modification—for labeling?
[Editor's note: Layla Katiraee is a scientist at Integrated DNA Technologies. She has a PhD in molecular genetics with a ...
High-dose vitamin C treatment suppresses blood cancer in mice
A study has recently revealed that vitamin C may tell faulty stem cells in the bone marrow to mature and ...
Heart attack vaccine? Innovative injection could prevent cholesterol buildup
Heart disease is the leading cause of death of men and women in the US. Over half a million Americans die from ...
Do we need mandatory genetic screening of sperm donors?
The multibillion-dollar sperm donation business has shockingly little oversight, leading to false promises of anonymity, insufficient medical testing and high ...
Women with breast, ovarian cancer are rarely tested for BRCA mutations
A new study conducted by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, states that among nearly 4 million women in ...
‘GMOs Revealed’: Documentary series delivers familiar arguments from the fringe
Multi-part documentary series will be rolled out over nine days, offering familiar voices from the anti-GMO fringe ...
Crippling costs blunt potential of drugs harvested from living cells
Biologics are drugs grown in living cells, rather than produced through chemical reactions. They can be incredibly effective, but are ...
Peak athletic performance: What are our human limits?
Athletic performance follows a normal distribution, like many other quantities in nature. That means that the number of people capable ...
GMO ‘virus-free’ pigs stir debate about ‘pushing limits’ of genetic research
These pigs are really just like any other pigs, except they were born without any genes in their genomes that ...
Does the ‘Nordic diet’ reduce stroke risk? Maybe, maybe not
Study gives teeth to claims that the Nordic diet--which limits foods to what people in Denmark, Sweden and other northern ...
Muscular dystrophy ‘death sentence’ targeted by gene therapy trials
[T]hree U.S. teams say they are ready to try to treat Duchenne [Muscular Dystrophy] with gene therapy. The first study ...
Truth about genetic tests: ‘They don’t seal your fate’
Once difficult and expensive even for the most technologically advanced labs, genetic testing is fast becoming a cheap and easy ...
Why we hallucinate–and why it’s not always a bad thing
Hallucinations are often distressing—a suggestion that something is amiss in our brains. But new research suggests we’re all susceptible to ...
Could we artificially create mutations that might aid cells in battling cancer?
The scientific challenge has not just been to demonstrate convincingly that harsh environments cause nonrandom mutations. It has also been ...
Podcast: Can the US learn from Canada’s ‘product-based’ GMO regulatory system?
Biotech legal expert Robert Potter: How GMOs are regulated differently in the US and Canada ...
Cancer early warning system: Blood test looks for bits of DNA shed from tumors
In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...
Mysterious ‘jumping genes’ responsible for spontaneous diseases at birth
Nearly half [of our genes are] made up of jumping genes, which are also called mobile DNA or mobile genetic ...
‘Genome cloaking’ could protect genetic privacy in medical tests
It is now possible to scour complete human genomes for the presence of disease-associated genes without revealing any genetic information ...
Male sterility may be correctable through stem cell treatments, if mice studies lead to human cure
A common genetic cause of male infertility has been overcome in mice using a technique that creates healthy sperm in ...
Why don’t two people with the same illness suffer equally? It’s genetic
Ever wonder why your friend, co-worker, or partner doesn’t get as sick as you, even though they caught the same ...
Yoga may be good for your mind, body–but what about your genes?
Research suggests that yoga, and similar mindfullness-focused activities, may foster genetic changes that help people cope with stress and avoid ...
Viewpoint: Democrats’ GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
A group of House Democrats, who called the proposed federal GMO labeling standards 'weak' and 'confusing,' are being urged not ...
‘Futuristic star’: The scientist growing transplantable human organs in pigs
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte had spent years probing the inner workings of embryos, ferreting out the genes that give a ...
