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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Why do people with autism tend to repeat themselves? It may be genetics
April is Autism Awareness Month and even MIT scientists are getting in on the action with compelling new genetic research...[R]esearchers ...
Can Netflix help us treat cancer?
[Editor's note: Elana Fertig is a professor of Oncology Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University.] To create individualized cancer treatments, we must ...
Behold the octopus: Problem solver, tool user and now, gene editor
The more we learn about octopuses and squids, the more mysterious they become. The ability to edit their own RNA ...
Stem cell clinics accused of promising more than they can deliver, and worse
It's a nightmare story: Three women pay tens of thousands of dollars to a South Florida clinic for unproven "stem ...
Edible ‘CRISPR pill’ instructs harmful bacteria to self-destruct, may revolutionize fight against antibiotic resistance
As resistance to antibiotics grows in the U.S., researchers are looking for new ways to fight germs like Clostridium difficile, ...
Video: Has organic farming ‘ideology’ spread through the scientific community?
[Editor's note: Andrew McGuire is an agronomist at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.] At the core ...
Unprotected sex with a new partner might affect vaginal health, microbiome
To find out if sexual activities could shape the vaginal microbiome and, potentially, women’s health, Lenka Vodstrcil at Melbourne Sexual ...
Controversial Italian study finding potential harm from GMO foods flagged by scientific journal
A journal has flagged a paper by a researcher who has questioned the safety of genetically modified organisms, after receiving concerns ...
Insect-resistant Bt GMO eggplant helps Bangladesh farmers increase income, reduce pesticide use
[Editor's note: Deb Carstoiu is managing director of plant biotech communications at CropLife International.] The eggplant, known in Asia as brinjal, ...
In-vitro screwup: What happens when your baby has someone else’s DNA?
It’s a nightmare scenario straight out of a primetime drama: a child-seeking couple visits a fertility clinic to try their ...
Does the administration’s block of the chlorpyrifos pesticide ban signal a changing regulatory landscape?
One of the first things this administration did was to rescind a government proposal to ban a pesticide used on ...
Green meal: GMO foods, synthetic milk, lab-grown meat on the menu
Feeding the 10 billion will require some creative solutions – and unpalatable compromises. Perhaps we can learn to love algae, ...
Does the US have the biotechnology and other tools to deal with the next wave of diseases?
[Editor's note: Tom Frieden served seven and a half years as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Politics of obesity: Democrats more likely to blame genetics for being overweight
In 2015, the Center for Disease Control reported nearly 71 percent of United States adults were overweight, more than one ...
‘Racist yet accurate’? Can a basketball team win a championship with 3 white starters?
[W]e can all agree that LaVar Ball has a bad case of Idiot Mouth. But just because Ball says something doesn’t ...
Nigerian professor: Anti-GMO campaigners ‘play politics’ with food security and poverty, delaying sustainable farming
Prof. Benjamin Ubi, [president of the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria] says the adoption of biotechnology will facilitate sustainable agricultural production ...
Canada’s food regulator finds herbicide glyphosate on 30 percent of samples — But only 1.3 percent above ‘acceptable’ limit
Canada's food regulator has found traces of the controversial herbicide glyphosate in nearly 30 percent of about 3,200 food products ...
Cuban officials embrace GMOs to feed hungry population, but groups push back
[Editor's note: Rev. Ben Johnson is Senior Editor at the Acton Institute.] Cuban officials have announced the island is turning to ...
Boulder County, Colorado to phase out GMO crops and neonicotinoid insecticides
Boulder County commissioners voted 2-1 on Thursday [April 13, 2017] to approve the latest version of their plan for phasing ...
Understanding toxicity: Caffeine ’40 times more toxic’ than glyphosate herbicide
[Editor's note: Alison Bernstein is a neuroscientist who studies the role of epigenetics and environmental exposures in Parkinson’s disease.] LD50 ...
GMO labeling could be top line on Sonny Perdue’s menu once confirmed as secretary of agriculture
Should Sonny Perdue be confirmed as the next secretary of Agriculture, it will fall to him to end the biggest ...
Activist-fueled ‘over-regulation’ of GMO research stymies potential to feed the world
[Editor's note: Dr. Amjad M. Husaini is a professor of biotechnology at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in India.] ...
How CRISPR gene editing will ‘supercharge’ agriculture
[J]ust as corn helped create these civilizations, these civilizations helped create corn through meticulous selective breeding. Today’s grain hardly resembles ...
Is there a weight lifting strength gene and can it increase the effectiveness of steroids?
Researchers have isolated a genetic variant that has a strong correlation with success in power sports such as sprinting and ...
What would ‘seeing’ like a blind person feel like?
What does a blind person see? Your first guess might be that she sees a vast blackness...The answer, of course, ...
Why humans have larger penises and smaller testicles than other great apes
[While humans have a much longer and wider penis than the other great apes[, human] testicles are rather small...The relative size ...
Patients with ALS, other neurological disorders look to gene-silencing drug for hope
Two recent mouse studies, led by investigators at the University of Utah and Stanford University, describe how a new antisense ...
