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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BioHub to treat type 1 diabetes: Bioengineered insulin-producing cells shown effective in pilot patient
A 43-year-old single mother with dangerously difficult-to-control diabetes had insulin-producing islet cells transplanted into her omentum -- a fatty membrane ...
Red or white wine? Genetics may determine what you like to drink
While these preferences have been around for as long as wine has been in existence, very little is known about ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Integrative medicine physicians and new book ‘Born Anxious’ fail Epigenetics 101
A new book hyped by several sites is likely based on pseudoscience, which underscores why physicians need to be more ...
What a DNA test could tell you about likelihood of your children getting genetic diseases
My dad died of cancer when I was 11 years old. I have my father’s hooded eyelids, quick temper, and ...
Animal research rarely replicates in humans—So why does the media hype these studies?
Last year, I F*%king Love Science blared a headline sure to pique the interest of any alcohol imbiber: "Beer Hops May ...
Sniffing out the truth: Humans do have a good sense of smell
[It's] conventional wisdom that humans’ sense of smell is worse than that of other animals — dogs, mice, moles and ...
Talking Biotech: How Uruguay—major producer of GMO soy and corn—regulates GE crops
Uruguay biosecurity expert Alejandra Ferenczi: 'Regulate the uniqueness of the final food product and not genetic engineering' ...
Podcast: Horticulturalist Kevin Folta exposes US Right to Know’s smear campaign against biotech scientists
The development of GMOs have helped farmers feed more people and create sustainable methods in modern agriculture. But that fact ...
What does USDA organic label really mean? WaPo investigation finds imported corn and soy often mislabelled
A shipment of 36 million pounds of soybeans sailed late [2016] from Ukraine to Turkey to California. Along the way, ...
What role can crop biotechnology play in feeding Nigeria’s growing population?
[Editor's note: Modesta Nnedinso Abugu is program assistant for the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology-Nigeria Chapter and Fellow of Cornell University’s ...
Nigeria’s environment minister: We must ensure country does not become ‘dumping ground for GM foods’
The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril has tasked regulatory agencies in the country to ensure that Nigeria ...
GMO disease fighters: Zika-destroying GM mosquitoes may soon be joined by GM moths to quash cabbage and kale pest
A half-inch-long moth that devours kale, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts may not inspire the same fear as a Zika-carrying mosquito, but ...
If biofortified crops are goal, both genetic engineering and conventional breeding necessary
[Dr Swati Puranik, of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University in the UK] and her ...
Childhood ‘overgrowth’—often leading to facial distortions—found linked to cancer-causing genes, epigenetics
Researchers have undertaken the world's largest genetic study of childhood overgrowth syndromes - providing new insights into their causes, and ...
Improving ‘worst’ environments in US could prevent 39 in every 100,000 cancer deaths, study claims
That’s according to the first study to address the impact of cumulative exposure to environmental hazards on cancer incidence in ...
‘Naturalistic fallacy’: Explaining anti-GMO—anti-vaccine ideological and financial links
Both the anti-GMO movement and the anti-vaccine movement are predicated on the myth that "natural" is better. They also share ...
Psychiatrists developing model to identify which mentally ill patients likely to become violent
It is certainly true that rates of violent crime are higher among the severely mentally ill than among the general ...
Vaccines do not cause autism. Here’s what science says does
It doesn’t help that doctors have long struggled to explain what exactly causes autism if vaccines don’t — many medical ...
3-D bionic humans? Printed pressure sensors open door to artificial limbs that feel
Wearable technology may soon be at your fingertips -- literally. Researchers have developed a pressure sensor that can be 3-D ...
American Veterinary Medical Association joins 275+ organizations in endorsing safety of GM foods, opposes mandatory labeling
Given the safety of genetically modified organisms and genetically engineered foods, mandatory labeling of GMO and GE foods and food ...
Do real farmers think of Monsanto as ‘the oppressor’?
[Editor's note: Michelle Miller, known on social media as the Farm Babe, is an Iowa-based farmer, public speaker and writer ...
Anti-vax Organic Consumers Association, linked to measles outbreak, has deep ties to anti-GMO conspiracist USRTK
The Organic Consumers Association uses its sizable budget to fund front groups, like Gary Ruskin's US Right to Know, that ...
Merchants of doubt: US Right to Know’s latest smear targets public-service-focused Canadian scientist
A familiar pattern is emerging, and if you love science and respect scientists it should give you chills. This week ...
Not Ebola: Mystery Liberian disease identified as virulent meningitis, but no vaccine in sight
When several people died suddenly late last month in Liberia after attending a funeral in the southern county of Sinoe, ...
How nanoparticles may help counteract antibiotic drug resistance
By 2050 more people may die from microbial infection than cancer, according to current estimates. The increasing mortal threat from ...
US life expectancy rose 5 years since 1980, but many poorer Americans dying younger
Your life expectancy can vary by as much as 20 years depending on which county in the U.S. you live ...
CRISPR race: Gene editing’s lower costs, regulations open door to more competition, improved crops
Monsanto ... is investing in gene editing in an effort to keep an edge over rival suppliers of high-tech crop seeds ...
