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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Genome editing could save ‘genetically decaying’ cassava staple that feeds 1 in 10 people
For breeders of cassava, a staple food for hundreds of millions in the tropics, producing improved varieties has been getting ...
Talking Biotech: Genetic engineering’s role in breeding more disease resistant and nutritious potatoes
Michigan State's David Douches builds a better potato combining genetic engineering and traditional breeding ...
GMO algae as food source and renewable fuel: First EPA-approved field trial completed
Scientists at the University of California San Diego and Sapphire Energy have successfully completed the first outdoor field trial sanctioned ...
Value pricing? Should effectiveness determine what patients pay for cancer drugs?
THE debate in rich countries about the high price of drugs is a furious and frustrating one.... Making a mistake ...
Trolls and shills: How disinformation sites InfoWars, Natural News and US Right to Know manufacture fake news
Lawyers suing Monsanto say the company pays people to defend it online, without citing any evidence to back up the ...
ADHD drug Adderall produces same effects as methamphetamines
Perhaps it has something to do with public "educational" campaigns aimed at discouraging methamphetamine use. These campaigns usually show, in ...
Which is the ‘weaker sex’? New review of genes illustrates male-female survival differences
[Prof. Shmuel Pietrokovski and Dr. Moran Gershoni of the Weizmann Institute’s molecular genetics department]...identified around 6,500 genes with activity that ...
Dramatic cancer treatment? ‘Command’ center targeted using CRISPR gene editing
The CRISPR gene-editing tool has already shown a lot of potential for helping doctors treat the most stubborn diseases, and ...
Bubble boy hope: Strimvelis gene therapy revises genetic make-up, offers rare immune deficiency cure
A child in Europe has become the second individual ever to receive a commercial gene therapy, according to GlaxoSmithKline. The ...
US Right to Know’s Gary Ruskin linked to anti-science Russian ‘fake news’ site
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is a senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science and Health.] RT is the ...
DNA of marathoning: Can knowing our genetics improve performance?
A few weeks ago, a press release hit the wires with a curiosity-provoking title and subtitle: “Are your muscles genetically ...
Controversy emerges over government-funded project to counter GMO food ‘misinformation’
The Food and Drug Administration will fund a campaign to promote genetically modified organisms in food under a bipartisan agreement to ...
Tackling hidden hunger: Biofortified genetically engineered foods increase iron, zinc and vitamin A
Back in the 60s, the Green Revolution changed the way we looked at food, both in terms of growing and ...
Former Boulder, Col mayor: Only people propagating threats and distortions are anti-GMO organizers
I recently read results of a survey in which 57 percent of respondents reported feeling "strongly" about an issue, yet ...
How to treat a crying baby? Brain waves offers window
Could a baby’s cry mean an anesthetic isn’t working well during a procedure? That a painkiller for postoperative pain has worn ...
Star Trek-like transporter might solve brain disease mysteries, understand religious belief
Scientists have modeled a Star Trek-like transporter illusion to learn about how the human brain shapes our sense of spatial ...
Tweet or die? Genes’ role in social media obsession
A new study revealed that the extent of our obsession with social media could actually be written in our genes, ...
Superbug antibiotic backlash? Let’s review the science
Don’t call it a war on superbugs. That’s the latest advice from international public health experts who have been watching ...
‘Follow the money’: Why the organic industry funds anti-GMO campaigns
Everything we eat has had their genes modified by humans at some point in history, and nothing we eat exists ...
Pediatric cancer: Can CRISPR gene editing help?
[Simone T. Sredni, associate professor of pediatric neurosurgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine] said that after so many years ...
Good with the bad: Cancer and life-saving stem cells stimulated by same gene
Life, it seems, is not without a sense of irony, as a research team led by investigators at the Johns ...
What you need to know about the legal battle over CRISPR patents
In 2012, Cal biochemistry and molecular biology professor Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, now of the Max Planck Institute, ...
New transplantation era beckons if we’re ok with growing organs in pigs
Some day, human organs from pigs may fill the organ gap, and the needed science and engineering is advancing rapidly, ...
Read the tea leaves: Decoded plant genome unlocks flavor secrets for future breeding
A team in China has decoded the genetic building blocks of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, whose leaves are used ...
China’s ‘consumer backlash’ against GMOs could spell crisis for US soybean farmers
A Chinese consumer backlash against genetically modified (GMO) crops is beginning to dent demand for soy oil, the nation's main ...
Is there hope for diabetes cure through synthetic biology?
Type 1 diabetes is a discouraging disease. Despite the availability of synthetic insulin and increasingly sophisticated monitoring technology, it’s still ...
Cell’s waste bins: Lysosomes’ role stretches beyond ‘trash collector’ to importance in gene activity, cancer
In this loftier reckoning of lysosomes, the organelles deftly integrate metabolic information from throughout the cell and communicate it to ...
