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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Independent health agencies disagree with IARC’s glyphosate cancer designation
The list of [Proposition 65] labeled substances [in California] includes marijuana smoke (but eating marijuana is fine, by California standards), ...
GMO rice that could reduce synthetic fertilizer usage developed by Indian scientists
New GM rice developed by [India's] National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) can improve uptake of natural Phosphorus from ...
Bladder control: Is there a genetic treatment for urinary incontinence?
Treatment options for urinary incontinence may be revealed through a genome-wide association study searching for genes that may contribute to ...
Working late-night shifts may wreck your body’s ability to repair its DNA
Working at night has been associated with a wide range of negative health effects, including cognitive impairment, metabolic disorders, and breast cancer...Now, new ...
Defensive measures: Early vertebrates employed gene-regulating proteins to battle viruses
Viruses and their hosts have been at war for more than a billion years...Although the earliest antiviral systems have long ...
Biological countdown: Male fertility fights the clock, too
For men who are reluctant to start a family, it is an age-old defence: there is no need to rush ...
Opinion: Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio and foodie movement push expensive, counterproductive farm policies
Tom Colicchio wants every child to taste an apple by the age of three. That’s just one of the many ...
Mediterranean peoples share a common recent ancestry—except mainland Greeks
Genetic analysis proves that following thousands of years of conquests and migrations, peoples living around the Mediterranean today share common ...
Smarter children tend to live longer: Is there a genetic connection?
Across a sweeping range of causes of death — from injuries to dementia to heart disease — being smarter as ...
‘Abortion pill’: How it works
While abortion is still legal, many states have since passed laws that restrict access to abortion to varying degrees...Now some ...
Could all those cups of coffee be causing infertility in men?
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world. Hundreds of millions of people are technically junkies, imbibing ...
Antioxidant-boosting GMO purple rice could decrease cancer and other health risks
Researchers in China have developed a genetic engineering approach capable of delivering many genes at once and used it to ...
Opinion: GMO opponents in ‘frenzied heat’ trying to discredit Food Evolution movie
Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle and other anti-GMO activists have complained that the documentary Food Evolution is nothing more than a ...
Built for success: Nigerian football players benefit vastly from their genes, culture, brains
[In the eyes of Bobby Burton, who has been covering college football recruiting for more than 20 years, Nigerian players ...
1 in 5 healthy adults may carry rare genetic disease mutations
A new pair of studies is the first ever randomized clinical trials evaluating whole genome sequencing in healthy people. They ...
Cryopreservation: Wood frogs may provide a guide to preserving donor organs
Long-term preservation of donor organs and tissue for on-demand transplants and medical procedures sounds futuristic...But, hey, the Arctic wood frog ...
Invisible threat: Zika virus may spread through sex without showing symptoms
Despite ongoing research, much about the [Zika] virus remains a mystery, including many details of how it spreads. Mosquitoes are ...
Since oxygen fuels fire, why don’t humans spontaneously combust?
Dioxygen (O2) molecules are diradicals, with two unpaired electrons, which can be depicted as one unpaired electron around each of ...
Opinion: Greenpeace’s ‘fearmongering’ gives environmental advocacy a bad name
The little town of Saint-Félicien, in Quebec’s lovely Saguenay region, is under siege. ... “Greenpeace wants our total death!” mayor ...
Prince Charles: ‘Future of humanity’ may depend on organic farming
Prince Charles has warned that the ‘very future of humanity’ may depend on organic farming. Speaking as he celebrated the ...
Worst kind of fake news? Health misinformation causes the most damage
Recent years...have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that...people are susceptible to false information and fake news. “My sense ...
Blind faith: Do we place too much confidence in cancer tests?
My previous post presented data showing that the PSA test for prostate cancer harms more men than it helps...[However,] many ...
Obesity may be linked to malfunctions in cell ‘antennae’
Nearly every cell in your body has [a structure called the primary cilium]...It not only looks like an antenna, it ...
CDC: Treatments for imaginary ‘Chronic Lyme Disease’ have claimed lives
The peak public health body in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has issued a ...
Virtual reality: Avatars help amputees control their prosthetics
People who have had amputations can control a virtual avatar using their imagination alone, thanks to a system that uses ...
California’s Prop 65 listing of herbicide glyphosate as carcinogen goes into effect July 7
Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list ...
Opinion | Putin’s ‘sock puppets’: How Russia ‘uses’ anti-GMO activists to undermine crop biotech and science
In its promotion of 'fake news,' Russia is committed to undermining US technological advantages by using anti-GMO activists to spread ...
