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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Prostate cancer treatment could get boost from DNA blood test
Scientists have developed a three-in-one blood test that could transform treatment of advanced prostate cancer through use of precision drugs ...
Epileptic mystery: Could micro-genes explain why some people have seizures and others don’t?
Seizures in epilepsy can be caused by genetic factors or they can be triggered by injury. While we know that ...
Human Project: 10,000 New Yorkers’ health to be tracked over 20 years
If you smoke cigarettes, you’re putting yourself at a heightened risk for heart disease. That correlation is well-known and unchallenged ...
Sustainable farming debate: Food choice has greater impact on environment than how it’s grown
[Editor's note: Michael Clark is a PhD student in natural resources science and management at the University of Minnesota. David Tilman ...
Opinion: Activists—not biotech companies—responsible for public backlash against GMOs
Biotech companies like Monsanto are often blamed for not doing enough to combat consumer skepticism of GM foods. But anti-GMO ...
Do GM crop regulatory delays, trade disputes threaten global food security?
[Editor's note: Stuart Smyth is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan.] Genetically ...
Diseases and behaviors likely the product of thousands of genes with complex interactions
If you told a modern geneticist that a complex trait...was the work of just 15 genes, they’d probably laugh. It’s ...
Fighting high cholesterol: Vaccine promises long-lasting fix
Scientists have begun a clinical trial to test a high cholesterol vaccine after research on mice proved successful. If the ...
Can a virus be ‘trained’ to fight ovarian cancer?
A Cardiff scientist is to explore whether viruses can be "trained" to tackle ovarian cancer after being given a £250,000 ...
Video: Nina Fedoroff’s TED talk on how CRISPR could control the Zika virus without pesticides
How did the Zika epidemic become so widespread across the Americas? How do we stop mosquitoes from spreading the virus ...
Reversing Huntington’s? Brain shown to heal itself after disease source edited out — in mice
The potential of genome-editing techniques, such as CRISPR/Cas9, to alleviate disease burden has ignited the imagination for thousands of researchers ...
Marion Nestle: ‘GMO propaganda’ film Food Evolution quoted me ‘out of context’
[Editor's note: Marion Nestle is a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University. She is featured ...
Pigs as human organ incubators? Pork producers gear up for potential demand
The pork industry is watching the potentially lucrative market that could be driven by a surge in demand for pigs ...
Does power corrupt? Leaders often lose ability to empathize linked to brain impairment
If power were a prescription drug, it would come with a long list of known side effects. It can intoxicate ...
China’s cultural revolution: Why widespread personal gene sequencing may be inevitable
[Editor's note: Razib Khan is a PhD candidate in genetics at the University of California-Davis.] If you’ve been hiding under a ...
Environmental Defense Fund: Sustainable farming, feeding growing population require biotechnology
It is critical that humanity meet the food needs of a growing population and relieve the increasing pressures on natural ...
Talking Biotech: Anti-GMO activists say Food Evolution is an ‘agrichemical conspiracy’—Who’s behind the documentary?
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of Food Evolution, addresses baseless claims that new GMO documentary is "Monsanto propaganda" ...
US will fight ‘non-science-based’ overseas regulations that restrict GMO exports, says trade representative
The Trump administration will attack overseas regulations that restrict the export of GMO crops and other products resulting from American technological ...
Can ‘mindful’ meditation, tai chi lower genetic risks of heart attack, cancer?
Meditation and tai chi don’t just calm the mind – they seem to affect our DNA too. There’s evidence that ...
Stem cell therapy relying on patient’s own unhealthy heart may be dangerous
A new study at Tel Aviv University shows that stem cell therapy, one of the few treatments available to patients ...
Widescale release of Zika-fighting GM mosquitoes approved in Cayman Islands
The National Conservation Council...unanimously approved the islandwide rollout of the genetically modified mosquito program without the need for a new ...
Downside to editing out ‘bad genes’: We might need them later
[With CRISPR, couples] may soon be able to edit [genes linked to genetic disorders] right out of their own sperm, ...
Cancer quest: Can we drive down the cost of promising immunotherapy treatments?
The so-called fourth pillar of cancer therapy still has a major drawback - high cost that make gold appear cheap ...
10 more years: Men with this common gene mutation may live longer, grow taller
A common genetic mutation is linked to an increase in life span of about 10 years among men...The mutation, described ...
Face time: Babies’ attraction to human faces may develop in the womb
Fetuses favor patterns of light that resemble faces over those without face-like features, a new study suggests. The study...is the ...
Fountain of youth: Can aging be slowed through supplements made from gut bacteria?
Slowing down the aging process might be possible one day with supplements derived from gut bacteria. Scientists at Baylor College ...
Buried treasure: ‘Game-changing’ antibiotic found in dirt might protect against resistant killer bacteria
Scientists have discovered a new kind of antibiotic — buried in dirt. Tests in animals show that it is effective ...
