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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Leukemia treatment using lab-grown blood ‘tantalizingly close’
A bone marrow transplant is often the only chance for survival [for patients with leukemia and other blood disorders]...Unfortunately, like ...
Nature or nurture? Chess players have higher than average IQ
Though we don't like to admit it, intelligence and IQ matter...The traditional view is that expertise, in general, requires a ...
Secret to a longer, healthier life: Eating less?
Researchers worldwide are pursuing various ideas [to enhance the length and quality of our lives], but for Julie Mattison from ...
Texas corn farmer: GMOs and glyphosate are ‘so much less risky for me and for the public’
GMO in your food is hugely controversial with Americans. … For guidance, I'm relying on this 600-page, landmark report from ...
Ag Secretary Perdue: Mandatory GMO labels ‘will probably’ be electronic QR codes
Upcoming labeling rules for foods made with genetically modified organisms will likely have an electronic component such as a QR ...
Fake news alert: Melania Trump did not ban Monsanto products, GMOs from White House
CLAIM: First Lady Melania Trump banned all Monsanto products from the White House after reading about the dangers of genetically modified ...
Can the FDA convince public that GMOs are safe to eat, good for environment?
The Food and Drug Administration has a tough job ahead of it, a job that the food and agriculture sectors ...
Did EPA and Monsanto conspire to downplay potential danger of glyphosate before EU review?
The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental ...
How to resist health scares: Review of Geoffrey Kabat’s ‘Getting Risk Right’
Public health regulations, particularly as regards to chemicals, are often driven by precautionary fears stirred by sloppy reporting sparked by ...
Vancomycin: Supercharged drug could reverse antibiotic resistance crisis
Scientists have tweaked a powerful antibiotic, called vancomycin, so it is once more powerful against life-threatening bacterial infections. Researchers say ...
Does Consumer Reports mislead readers by promoting Non-GMO Project label?
Consumer Reports claims to provide consumers with unbiased information about products and services. But the site is accused of exploiting ...
Does water have a flavor? Your tongue may think so
Viewed under a microscope, your tongue is an alien landscape, studded by fringed and bumpy buds that sense five basic ...
He/She: Brains of men and women hard-wired different because of hormones, genes
[In the past, studying sex-based differences in the brain] was not a universally popular idea. The neuroscience community had largely ...
Sexy swimmers: Sperm cell tails use elastic springs to control movement
Human sperm cells get an extra oomph forward as they swim, thanks to interconnected elastic springs in their tails that ...
10 ways Whole Foods misleads consumers about organic food and farming
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] I was at a meeting with ...
Parkinson’s target of China’s first clinical trial using embryonic stem cells
In the next few months, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will carefully drill through the skulls of people ...
Cancer patients find hope in immunotherapy drug that exploits genetic glitches
In August 2014, [colon cancer patient Stefanie Joho] stumbled into Johns Hopkins University for her first infusion of the immunotherapy drug ...
Why men are faster runners than women
Given that both men and women train equally hard, why is it that men, on average, are faster runners than ...
Shared vision: Identical twins see the world the same—even as they age
Over recent years, it has become clear that some of the larger defects in vision - such as myopia (nearsightedness) ...
Is ADHD actually a sleep disorder?
Could ADHD [be] a type of sleep disorder? After all, the brain pathways involved in paying attention have also been ...
Fake food news: Non-GMO Project sets standard for misleading consumers
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is a freelance writer and co-author of The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari’s Glass House.] As a ...
21st century veggie burger: ‘Bloody-pink and fleshy’ thanks to genetic engineering
The 20th century veggie burger was a beige patty packed with whole grains and carrot chunks, sold in a brown ...
Controlling gene expression with light may lead to disease treatments
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have gotten a step ...
Kenya faces hunger, but refuses to import GMO corn from South Africa’s record harvest
Africa’s corn harvest this year is a tale of two extremes as worries about overflowing silos and rotting crops in ...
Liberal awakening: Ignorance of GMO science has no ideology
[Emily Thorne is a 17-year-old aspiring journalist from Athens, Georgia.] For a long time, I was part of the anti-GMO movement. It ...
Read ELP’s Nicholas Staropoli Reddit Science ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Epigenetics: Hype and Health
Editor’s Note: On Friday, June 2nd from 1pm–3pm EDT, ELP director Nicholas Staropoli hosted a Reddit-science Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) about the hype surrounding ...
Video: Organic food is a great business but a bad environmental investment
[Editor's note: Bjorn Lomborg is director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.] There are no health benefits ...
