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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Did Google do the right thing in blocking Natural News from searches?
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s profile on Natural News founder Mike Adams. Also: FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams ...
Rice plants could be genetically tweaked to tame arsenic found in soil, reducing risk for humans
Rooted in place, plants can’t run away from arsenic-tainted soil — but they’re far from helpless. Scientists have identified enzymes ...
Why eating soy protects some of us but not others from heart disease
A product of digesting a micronutrient found in soy may hold the key to why some people seem to derive ...
Multiple sclerosis treatment could ‘reset’ immune system with stem cell therapy
New research provides further evidence of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis, after finding ...
Avoiding the unexpected: Zika, malaria-fighting gene drive in mosquitoes has built-in safety net
Concerns about CRISPR gene drives and other CRISPR applications have to do with the possibility that something could go wrong ...
Meditation may reduce anxiety, stress levels by altering brain’s white matter
Researchers believe they have created the world’s first mouse model of meditation by using light to trigger brain activity similar ...
Men and breast cancer: What you should know about BRCA screening
In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie brought genetic testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) into the limelight by ...
Getting a head start: What parents can learn from prenatal genetic testing
{Editor's note: Excerpts are from an interview with Bonnie Rochman, science journalist and author of the book The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies ...
New frontier in fight against Alzheimer’s, epilepsy opens with discovery of learning mechanism
Researchers have discovered a brand new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in our brain communicate with each other ...
Tired of overeating? ‘Fullness’ gene could lead to appetite-supressing drug
Scientists claim to have discovered a gene that triggers a feeling of fullness and could help prevent the urge to ...
Autism could be detected as early as 1 year old, with MRI scans
Children with autism tend to be diagnosed around age 4, after a child begins to socialize and speak. But the earlier a ...
Did migration to America take long enough for humans to evolve?
The Bering land bridge plays a central role in our picture of how humans reached the Americas...Current estimates suggest that ...
1 cigarette ‘more carcinogenic and toxic’ than a spoonful of glyphosate pesticide
[Editor's note: Matan Shelomi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Entomology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...
Chickens genetically engineered to act as surrogates could protect vulnerable breeds from avian flu
In a radical plan to preserve rare varieties [of chicken breeds] such as the Nankin, Scots Dumpy and Sicilian Buttercup, scientists ...
Fighting cancer by shifting the body’s immune system into overdrive
Gene-targeted treatments and immunotherapy offer great promise to cure cancer, but they work in less than half of patients and ...
Video: Mail-order CRISPR? Company aims to put gene-editing tool in more hands
Despite its controversy, CRISPR gene editing has taken the world by storm, revolutionizing the fields of medicine, bioengineering, and beyond ...
4 things that show the ‘amazing potential’ of gene sequencing
It's been 13 years since scientists "sequenced" or read the first complete genetic code of a human being...[T]here's still plenty ...
ALS, motor neuron disease treatments could arise from study of finger, toe wiring
[Editor's note: Thomas Jessell, the study's co-author, co-directs Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute as a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics.] ...
Feeling blue? Depression may have offered evolutionary advantage to our ancestors
Depressive symptoms have been found in every culture on Earth and throughout history...Unlike other psychiatric disorders, which are rare, depression ...
Does poor motivation or ‘bad parenting’ cause ADHD? Studies say it’s in the brain structure
For the first time, scientists can point to substantial empirical evidence that people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have brain structures that differ ...
Insect-resistant GMO cowpeas speed toward commercialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan African farmers will soon have access to improved cowpea varieties that will lead to increases in yield. This follows ...
Farmers in 10 states file lawsuit alleging Monsanto responsible for crop damage from drift of dicamba herbicide
[Editor's note: In November 2016, the EPA approved a formulation of dicamba that contains an additive that reduces volatility. This ...
Consumption of soy milk and herbicide glyphosate may alter your sperm? Horticulturist Kevin Folta says not so fast
[Editor’s note: Kevin Folta is a molecular geneticist and chair of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida.] Carey ...
What factors shape women’s perceptions of GMOs?
[Editor's note: Heather Bray is a senior research associate and Rachel Ankeny is a professor of history, both at the ...
Talking Biotech: Shoppers may soon be able to buy pre-sliced, tastier and more nutritious pears
Choosing when to eat a pear is notoriously difficult, for it quickly turns bad. Horticultural genomicist Amit Dhingra is working ...
Did EU abuse emergency authorizations of neonicotinoids?
The EU has been criticised after a new legal analysis showed it had allowed scores of “emergency authorisations” of banned ...
Bill Gates: ‘We need to prepare for epidemics the way the military prepares for war’
[Editor's note: Excerpts are from an editorial written by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, regarding the potential dangers of fast-moving diseases spread by terrorists ...
