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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GMO corn that resists cancer-causing aflatoxin showcases biotech’s life-saving potential
The creation of GM corn that neutralizes a cancer-causing toxin is a game-changer for human health. The method could be ...
Night owl? Gene mutation may disrupt your body’s internal circadian clock
Millions of adults simply cannot go to sleep at the conventional time that most Americans do, [usually because] their internal ...
Talking Biotech: Why is the government not funding research into the most nutritious foods?
Journalist Helena Bottemiller-Evich explores the health impact of the government's meager research support for fruits, vegetables and nuts ...
Trump’s deregulation push could undermine trust in safety of our food system
Pro-agriculture conservatives seem to be welcoming Trump’s push for deregulation because they felt Obama-era policies on GMOs and school lunch ...
Africa’s biotechnogy sector crippled by lack of electricity
Money is power, the saying goes. Sure enough, the fraction of GDP invested into science and technology (S&T) is a ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Epigenetics and health in 2030, botched vitamin B cure, and more
This week’s features: Vitamin B still won't protect you from air pollution, and epigenetics and the city of 2030. Plus, ...
New EU independent herbicide glyphosate study shows no toxic effects or genetic changes
Results of a new animal study into possible health risks of the weedkiller glyphosate will be published in time to ...
Rotten tomato: Senator Rand Paul misses mark targeting tastier tomatoes as wasteful research
[Editor’s note: Kevin Folta is a molecular biologist and chair of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida.] Senator [Rand] ...
Personalized skin cancer vaccine shows promise
For half a century, researchers have dreamed of giving cancer patients a vaccine that helps the immune system detect the ...
SHERLOCK gene tool can identify Zika in blood, help prepare for epidemics
A tool based on CRISPR has been shown to detect the Zika virus in blood, urine and saliva. It was ...
Has Big Ag funding corrupted Canadian chemical and pesticide safety research?
A Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, [Len] Ritter is one of Canada’s leading experts on the effects of ...
Hepatitis C treatment: Genes found that calibrate how our immune system affects virus
A big data study of hepatitis C and more than 500 patients with the virus has opened the way for ...
How Cargill flubbed its non-GMO labeling partnership, angering farmers and consumers
As soon as Cargill announced that an outside group had certified more than a dozen of its ingredients as non-GMO, ...
Depression gene? Gene link found for some with depressive symptoms
One in 10 people have a major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lives, which makes depression the most common mental illness ...
Sperm drugs: Women’s best bet for cancer-killing gynecological tumor treatments
Delivering drugs to cancerous tissue is one of the more urgent medical issues of our time. The problems with drug ...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and bioethics: How his philosophy could shape the court
In his Senate confirmation hearings, Neil Gorsuch gave little away...Practiced, garrulous, tedious, combative, and smugly civil, the judge repeated stock ...
Conventional (GMOs) vs organic farming: Which is better for animals and the environment?
[Editor's note: Iida Ruishalme is a writer and a science communicator from Sweden who holds a M.Sc. in Biology.] I ...
Is the US unwittingly funding anti-agriculture and anti-Monsanto conspiracy theories?
There is an organization that is using [US] tax dollars and they have replaced fact-based science with conspiracy theories and ...
EU Food Safety Authority: Risk from pesticide residue on foods low, unlikely to pose health risk
[Editor's note: The following is from the EFSA's 2015 European Union report on pesticide residues in food, published April 11, ...
Hawaii documentary claims presence of Big Ag GMO test facilities forces islands to import food
Did you know that the state of Hawaii imports between 80 and 90 percent of its food? This is, among ...
Why government-recommended PSA screening for prostate cancer may be bad advice
PSA screening [for prostate cancer] remains a difficult decision for healthy men and their doctors [even after the latest recommendation upgrade] ...
Are we ready, without professional help, to decide what to do when our genes tell us we have a potential disorder?
The FDA's decision to allow 23andMe to offer consumers disease screening has triggered a debate over whether the public is ...
Parkinson’s stem cell therapy 2.0: New treatment coaxes the brain to repair itself
For the past five decades pharmaceutical drugs like levodopa have been the gold standard for treating Parkinson’s disease. These medications ...
Scientists push back over criticism that they pander to political correctness for rejecting genetic-based male-female differences
Mainstream journals increasingly publish studies that reveal how misleading assumptions about the sexes bias the framing of hypotheses, research design ...
Fighting infections: Using probiotic ‘good’ bacteria could slow resistance to antibiotics
As scientists continue their exploration of the thousands of organisms that live inside our body, a new study is showing ...
Keys to heart disease, diabetes, cancer may be in genome’s ‘dark matter’
A new method lets researchers quickly screen the non-coding DNA of the human genome for links to diseases that are driven ...
Why we sleep less as we age
It’s a known fact that as we age, we sleep less. But the reasoning behind this phenomenon is poorly understood ...
