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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After warning label victory, California activists push for a glyphosate herbicide ban
[A]fter a yearlong legal battle, California’s environmental health agency has announced that it will list it as a known carcinogen ...
Kenyan oncologist: Shift health focus away from safe GMO foods to actual carcinogens — Like alcohol
[Editor's note: David Makumi is an oncologist and chairman of the Kenya Network of Cancer Organisations.] Every time the Health ...
Agricultural biotechnology regulations are a mess — Here’s how Trump can unshackle innovation
For ideological or political reasons unsupported by data, and drawing on risk paradigms decades out of date, the US imposes ...
Infographic: The history of modern crop breeding — And how biotech seeds fit in
Biotech crops are an important milestone for agriculture as it continually improves to keep pace with the growing demand for ...
Ayman Jallad: Mysterious Syrian-Lebanese businessman funds anti-GMO activist network in Europe
Ayman Jallad has two battles on his hands. The Syrian-Lebanese businessman is in the challenging business of selling imported Caterpillar ...
Tumor zapper: Brain cancer survival rates boosted by electric skull cap
An electric skull cap designed to zap cancer cells trying to grow in the brains of wearers proved useful at ...
President of Senegal bucks anti-biotechnology pressure: ‘I am for the use of GMOs’
President Macky Sall of Senegal has thrown his weight behind the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in the country. .... President ...
Microbiomes could help plants grow, resist disease and make agriculture more sustainable
Feeding a growing world population amidst climate change requires optimizing the reliability, resource use, and environmental impacts of food production ...
Talking Biotech: Florida neurosurgeon Duane Mitchell on how genetic engineering opens doors in cancer fight
Neuroscientist Duane Mitchell discusses genetically enhancing T-cells and other cutting edge cancer immunotherapies ...
How dyslexia affects brain function: It’s not just about reading and language
Dyslexia is not just about reading, or even language. It’s about something more fundamental: How much can the brain adapt ...
FDA approves 23andMe direct-to-consumer genetic tests for 10 diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow a company to sell genetic tests for ...
Mosquitoes evolving resistance to nets designed to quash spread of malaria
In the last ten years or so, more than a billion insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed across the world ...
Infertility in women linked to gene vital to heart, kidney development, cancer suppression
It has been estimated that more than 80 million people in the world have an unfulfilled desire to have children ...
California v EPA: Legal challenge possible over Prop 65 labeling of herbicide glyphosate as carcinogenic
Monsanto officially lost its fight to avoid a Prop 65 warning label on its products containing glyphosate, a chemical used ...
Seeing patterns that aren’t there? Understanding how the brain forms opinions — And implications for science
Humans have a natural inclination to 'order the world,' our minds imposing familiar patterns on the chaos of life. Could ...
Neonicotinoid insecticides in trace level parts per trillion detected in drinking water in Iowa
[A] team of chemists and engineers at the [U.S. Geological Survey] and University of Iowa reported that they found neonicotinoids ...
Our food system isn’t broken, it’s flourishing — and GMO crops are a big reason why
[Editor's note: Randy Krotz is CEO of the US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance.] Activists and others [say] the food system [is] broken, ...
Umbilical cord stem cells may yield treatment for autism
Gracie [Gregory] was one of 25 children who took part in the first-of-its-kind study at Duke University in Durham, North ...
Video: Genetic engineering could help African farmers increase yields without expensive fertilizers
In this video by Robert Hazen of the [Cornell] Alliance for Science, scientists from the Engineering Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa ...
CRISPR crops focused on sustainable farming could soften African resistance to genetic engineering
[Nteranya Sanginga is director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.] The role of genetic engineering in agriculture and ...
Fertilizer-making GE microbes could boost crop yields, fight malnutrition in developing world
Industrial fertilizers help feed billions of people every year, but they remain beyond the reach of many of the world’s ...
Depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia and autism genetically linked
Five major mental illnesses — depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia and autism — are traceable to the same inherited genetic ...
Uncertainty is a certainty in the modern genomics landscape
[Editor's note: Misha Angrist, the new editor-in-chief of Genome, writes about the uncertainties surrounding genomics in modern medicine.] In the last few years ...
Chronicling a family’s struggle with gene that guarantees Alzheimer’s at a young age
[Editor's note: "The Inheritance" is a new book by writer Niki Kapsambelis about the DeMoe family from North Dakota, who ...
When two parents lack the DNA for a healthy baby, can a third person help?
The long-held belief that we get half our genes from our father and the other half from our mother may ...
Does National Institutes of Health fund ‘scientifically questionable’ European cancer groups?
The NIH and top official Linda Birnbaum face questions from a Congressional oversight committee about US funding of European cancer ...
Chipotle fumbles science in attempt to justify its anti-GMO stance
[Editor's note: Stephan Neidenbach is a middle school teacher and blogger. He runs the popular We Loves GMO and Vaccines ...
