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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Early warning child allergy detection system? Competing theories of how to inoculate children against developing reactions
Allergic reactions to foods can strike young children without warning. Now, a controversial blood test may be able to detect ...
Hype and agroecology: Is ‘low input’ farming better for the environment and economy?
[Editor's note: Henry Miller, physician and molecular biologist, is a fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s ...
Feeding the world: Will GMO seeds rescue yields as global climates dry and heat up?
Take the argument that more heat- and drought-resistant seeds are what’s needed to cope with climate change. The good people ...
How DNA from 100-year-old tumor could bolster treatment of rare childhood cancers
Deep in the basement archives of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children reside the patient records that cancer researcher ...
How humans and chimps diverged: DNA parasite ‘jumping genes’ played key role
Face-to-face, a human and a chimpanzee are easy to tell apart. The two species share a common primate ancestor, but ...
Social media, pornography or work: What’s to blame for our decrease in sex?
We live in one of the most sexually liberated times of human history. Access to new technologies over the past ...
US flower sellers forced to destroy 9 varieties of petunias after tests show they’re genetically modified
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced [May 16] that U.S. flower distributors have begun to destroy countless petunia plants ...
Immune cells that attack tumors may dictate the success or failure of therapy
Detailed maps of the immune cells that surround tumours could suggest fresh therapeutic targets, point out biological markers that can ...
Synthetic biology cheat sheet: Key players, big debates and lingo you should know
Key Players J. Craig Venter: After playing an important role in early efforts to sequence the human genome, Venter now ...
Does ‘G’ mark the spot? Science struggles to explain the female orgasm
Why are orgasms so intensely pleasurable? How come women can experience multiple orgasms? And does the fabled G-spot even exist? ...
Infographic: Who to trust—and who not to trust—about food and farming
With conflicting claims about scientific topics everywhere on the internet, it’s hard to know who to trust. This is especially ...
WHO arranging to send experimental Ebola vaccine to Democratic Republic of Congo
The World Health Organization and outside experts are making arrangements to send an experimental Ebola vaccine to the Democratic Republic ...
GLP’s Jon Entine: Gene editing will cut time, costs of commercializing new genetically engineered crops
Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of GMO seeds, is betting that a new technology called gene editing may calm consumers ...
EU to propose 10-year extension of glyphosate herbicide
The European Commission will propose extending by 10 years its approval for weed-killer glyphosate, used in Monsanto's Roundup, a spokeswoman ...
Colon cancer rates spiking among millennials, but no one knows why
It might be tempting for activists to blame GMOs for the rise in colon cancer rates among younger people, but ...
Cesarean section: How this booming birth procedure influences human evolution
The rising use of C-sections around the world is altering the survival rates of mothers and fetuses who might not ...
Infographic: 6 ‘snake oil salesmen’ who profit from food fears
Several activists opposed to genetic engineering run small media empires, including websites, TV and radio programs. Scientists say they are ...
Plaintiffs suing Monsanto over alleged carcinogenicity of herbicide glyphosate say EPA colluded with company
For 12 years, [Christine] Sheppard had no idea what might have caused her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -- until a group of ...
CSPI’s Greg Jaffe: USDA should regulate GMOs, gene-edited crops based on end-product, not process
[Editor's note: Greg Jaffe is the Director of the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public ...
UK approves field trial of GM potatoes resistant to blight and nematode
In the United Kingdom, farming minister George Eustice (DEFRA) has approved a four-year trial of genetically modified (GM) potatoes at ...
Pink GM pineapple with high levels of antioxidants unlikely to boost human health
[Editor's note: Layla Katiraee is a scientist with a PhD in Molecular Genetics.] A couple of months ago, I saw ...
Open source science or intellectual property: Should we allow patenting of synbio organisms?
[S]ynthetic biology...incorporates disparate disciplines like engineering, computer science, biotechnology, and molecular biology...[i]nstead of using engineering’s discrete modules of code, transistors, ...
Genetic factors might explain nuances of male gay behavior, study claims
A lot of people think that homosexuality is a simple matter of genetics—if you have the so-called "gay gene," well, ...
Does US need a ‘biology strategy’ to ensure gene editing research proceeds ethically?
With the arrival of the gene-editing technology Crispr, biology will soon converge with everyday medicine, big agriculture, and artificial intelligence ...
CRISPR may open door to personalized treatment of cancer
One thing cells must do in order to become cancerous is to overthrow the normal checks on their growth. As ...
It’s getting hot in here: Your cells reach 122 Fahrenheit when making energy
Our body temperature might not ever get much hotter than 37°C [98.6°F]. But it turns out that the insides of ...
Infection-causing, antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ originated 500 million years ago
The bacteria, called Enterococcus, is a so-called superbug, meaning it is resistant to antibiotics and cleaning products. In the new ...
