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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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 ...
Nina Fedoroff: USDA, FDA proposals intended to streamline biotech crop regulations don’t offer needed relief
[Editor's note: Nina Fedoroff is an American molecular biologist. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2007 and served ...
Pro-GMO vegans? Online community champions biotechnology, science literacy
[Andrea] Palmieri, who now leads the March Against Myths, is a bit of a contradiction. In fact, she was once told ...
Opinion: Celebrities, environmental activist groups should stop shaming parents into avoiding GMOs
The Environmental Media Association has teamed up with the organic dairy farm Clover Sonoma to celebrate Dairy Month in an ...
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 ...
Will patients’ lifestyles become more important to precision medicine than gene sequencing?
While much of the excitement surrounding precision medicine focuses on using genomics to tailor personalized treatment plans, speakers at the ...
Organic industry-funded anti-GMO group US Right to Know calls Food Evolution film ‘chemical industry propaganda’
[Editor's note: Stacy Malkan is co-director of US Right to Know. Read the GLP's profile of USRTK here.] Some industry messaging ...
People who commit suicide may have genetic predisposition
The causes of suicide are complex, but they seem to involve some combination of nature and nurture. Now, a new ...
Eyeborg: Man has video camera inserted to replace damaged eye
Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has a prosthetic eye that doubles as a video camera. Spence, who is ...
Scientists criticize IARC for withholding data showing glyphosate herbicide does not cause cancer
According to a new Reuters investigation, Aaron Blair, the scientist who led IARC's [the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a ...
Talking Biotech: Toxicologist on flawed approach of IARC’s glyphosate evaluation
University of Guelph toxicologist Len Ritter: 40-year history of safety assessments challenge IARC's "probable carcinogen" finding ...
WHO’s IARC: Why we did not consider evidence glyphosate herbicide is safe
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's coverage of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Reuters article.] The IARC Secretariat ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Trump isn’t affecting human evolution and organic produce isn’t helping your sperm
Is Donald Trump adversely affecting human evolution? One professor's opinion shows how the left politicizes science too; Men's Health quotes ...
Lesson from BPA: Banning glyphosate herbicide won’t make us safer
For years, opponents of glyphosate have argued the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is harmful for your health. ...
Why the fetus — a ‘foreign body’ — does not attack its mother
The immune system of a fetus developing in the womb faces a quandary: It has to prepare itself to attack ...
In case of disaster: Blood test could ‘fast screen’ for radiation exposure
After a nuclear disaster like the one in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, first responders need to quickly measure radiation exposure ...
Will GMO-wary public embrace gene-edited food crops? ‘It’s more social science than science’
Green stalks have only just begun to sprout in the test fields where biotech giant DuPont Pioneer is planting rows ...
Glyphosate herbicide ban could cost UK farmers $1.2 billion, reduce tax revenue
New figures show the potentially devastating impact of a ban on glyphosate to the British economy and the agricultural sector, ...
Video: Missouri farmer creatively complies with ‘ridiculous’ requirement to destroy GE petunias
Blake Hurst, a greenhouse grower in Northwest Missouri and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, recently received a letter telling him ...
LSD to lift your mood or performance? Microdosing could become commonplace
Janet Lai Chang is one of many who have added a pinch of psychedelic drugs to their daily routine in ...
Creating ‘leaks’ in blood vessels could aid in drug delivery
The endothelial cells that line blood vessels are packed tightly to keep blood inside and flowing, but scientists have discovered ...
First genetic links to major depression identified
The CONVERGE consortium identified two genetic associations by focusing on a sample of Chinese women with recurrent severe depression...[Now that] ...
