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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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 ...
Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero’s ‘brainless’ proposed ‘head transplant’ project
When Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero recently announced his plans to conduct a human head transplant, that is, to put an ...
Which genetic test is best: AncestryDNA v 23andMe v National Geographic
Genetic testing companies have proprietary sets of data and various ways of analyzing information, so each one I tried offered ...
Boulder County, Colorado’s GMO ban destabilizes the environment and economy
[Editor's note: Mara Abbott is the community columnist at the Boulder Daily Camera and a professional women's bicycle racer.] ["Economic, Environmental ...
How Bangladesh emerged as world innovator in pest-resistant, nutritionally fortified GM crops
GMO Bt eggplant has reduced insecticide use 80-90% in Bangladesh, ushering in burgeoning era of sustainable agriculture--and more GM crops ...
Tired all the time? Chronic fatigue syndrome may be linked to gut bacteria
People with chronic fatigue syndrome may have imbalances in their gut bacteria, a new study suggests. The study found that ...
Hazard vs risk: California’s Prop 65 relies on ‘flawed approach’ of WHO’s IARC cancer agency
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's coverage of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer here.] [Editor's note: ...
World’s first sex robot: She also smiles, tells jokes and quotes Shakespeare
In the brightly lit robotics workshop at Abyss Creations’ factory in San Marcos, California, a life-size humanoid was dangling from a ...
‘Hunger hormone’ may also boost growth of brain cells
Could fasting boost your brainpower? A stomach hormone that stimulates appetite seems to promote the growth of new brain cells ...
CRISPR gene editing successfully used on non-human primate for first time in US
In a study led by Michigan State University, scientists have shown that gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 technology can be quite ...
Mendel meets Tinder: GenePeeks screen maps babies’ genetic risks — before conception
Genetic screening offers prospective parents new insights into the potential disease risks facing their offspring -- and maybe a chance ...
Eugenics was once favored tool of progressives to remove ‘bad genes’ from society
Most people close their eyes to unpleasantness in their past. Political movements do the same thing on a grander scale ...
Dementia, Alzheimer’s linked to soda — and why you shouldn’t worry about it
If you didn’t know better, you’d think Alzheimer’s disease is the plot of a bad horror movie: A creeping silent killer steals ...
Video: Bill Nye finds people are terrified of GMOs — despite knowing little about them
Along with terms like organic and free-range, GMOs are a hot topic when it comes to our food. GMO stands for ...
Boy or girl: Should prenatal testing be censored for fear it may become a sex-selection tool?
Some prominent ethicists push for limiting the release of prenatal testing for fear the information could be used by parents ...
Potential tumor ‘blockers’ identified that could limit skin and breast cancers
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, claims between 9,000-10,000 American lives annually. And a primary reason it does is ...
Disease trade-off: Malaria resistance comes with higher risk for multiple sclerosis, lupus
When it comes to human evolution and survival, fighting off one disease can sometimes mean that a person becomes more ...
Treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other forms of dementia may already be in your medicine cabinet
Tried, true, and FDA-approved drugs for cancer and depression—already in medicine cabinets—may also be long-sought treatments for devastating brain diseases ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: IFL Science doesn’t f****** understand how humans ‘inherit’ modifications
The popular science site IFL Science whiffs at covering a major study; and can we please stop talking about 'space ...
Talking Biotech: Naturally transgenic sweet potato can be tweaked to fight plant disease, boost nutrition
Plant virologist Jan Kreuze: Disease-resistant sweet potatoes could make nutritious, naturally GMO crop key tool to fight malnutrition ...
Canada’s health regulator reaffirms glyphosate herbicide neither genotoxic nor carcinogenic
Health Canada says the potential risk to human health and the environment from pesticides containing glyphosate are acceptable, if used ...
Are you ‘anti-science’ if you resist biotechnology on political or economic grounds?
[Editor's note: Tess Doezema is a doctoral student at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona ...
Fact check: Conflicting studies on chlorpyrifos insecticide’s human health impact
When the Environmental Protection Agency decided to not ban chlorpyrifos, an insecticide widely used in agriculture, both the EPA and ...
National Academies tighten conflict-of-interest policies after backlash stemming from GMO, pain-relief reports
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are toughening their financial conflict-of-interest policies after publishing reports that some critics ...
Man’s best friend: Evolutionary history of dogs could shed light on cancer, epilepsy in both species
An evolutionary tree of more than 161 dog breeds has been mapped out by geneticists, showing which types are closely ...
Are 3-parent babies products of eugenics or the desire to save lives?
The most astonishing gene therapy news this year has been the crafting of three-parent babies. The in-vitro fertilization practice, known ...
Decrying ‘neurosexism’: Are attempts to find biological gender differences justified?
“Neurosexism,” “populist science,” “neurotrash,” the problem with using terms like these to describe scientific investigations of sex differences is that ...
