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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Smart squash: Why some fruits are genetically wired to hurt your hands
Many a gardener will grow butternut squash.... They take the squash inside and immediately start cutting it up, about 5 ...
High achievers tend to marry people with similar DNA
While it is well known that humans mate assortatively in relation to education - people with similar education levels marry ...
Knowledge of genetic disease risks seldom leads to lifestyle changes
In a randomized controlled trial, people who learned their genetic risk of developing type 2 diabetes did not appear to ...
Evidence shows breast cancer screening lacks clear cut-off age
There is no clear cut-off age to stop breast cancer screening, according to a new analysis which adds support for ...
Cancer can emerge from changes to epigenome, not just gene mutations
Doctors’ ruling perspective on cancer has been that it is caused by a series of genetic changes. However, a team ...
Why genetic engineering is blocked from eradicating ‘world’s deadliest killer’—disease-carrying mosquitoes
A GMO mosquitoes that could eliminate disease-carrying wild ones has succeded in field trials in the Caymans, Panama, and Brazil ...
Pew survey: Americans don’t trust scientists on GMOs, but are warming to GM foods
Skepticism of GM foods remains strong in America, although the embrace of the safety of biotechnology has grown dramatically over ...
Infographic: Pesticides getting safer, developed countries using less
Developed countries have phased out the more dangerous chemicals, such as parathion and other organophosphates. After the US Food Quality ...
CRISPR’s ability to treat blood disorders illustrates potential as medical therapy
[T]he jury’s still out on whether Crispr will be as transformative as a medical therapy as it has been as ...
Infographic: Enhancing yields, preventing disease
Long-term research plots have shown increases in wheat yield from controlling weeds and disease. Gains from plowing fallow fields were ...
Non-African humans may carry harmful Neanderthal genes that lower fitness
The Neanderthal genome included harmful mutations that made the hominids around 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans, according to ...
What you eat influences which genes your gut microbes switch on and off
New research provides further evidence of the important role that gut microbes play in health - by revealing they alter ...
Cargill developing GMO sustainable omega-3 rich salmon feed
For the first time in history, essential fatty acids used to feed salmon could be sourced from crops harvested on ...
Dogs emerging as new model to research cancer cures for humans
The growing interest in dogs reflects researchers’ frustration with the standard approach to developing cancer treatments: testing them in lab ...
Gene linked to binge drinking might help treat alcoholism
The ability to stop drinking when you're feeling tipsy or drunk comes easier to some than others. An international research team from ...
Should people with risky lifestyles be held accountable when their health turns poor–and costly?
Within the last couple of decades, more and more research have shown a number of diseases, such as type 2 ...
Blocking science from “meddling” in human genome allows harmful genes to damage children
CRISPR-Cas9 will make it be possible for parents to ensure that mutations such as Huntington’s disease...are eliminated from their children’s ...
How gene therapy might treat diseases once thought untreatable
What is gene therapy? [Gene therapy] is a way to fix a gene defect in a person’s cells. One way ...
Theory behind Alzheimer’s cure remains credible even after drug trial failure
A drug that was seen as a major test of the leading theory behind Alzheimer’s disease has failed in a ...
Environmental groups to sue FDA over plan to release Zika-fighting GMO mosquitoes
A coalition of environmental groups is threatening to sue the federal government over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration greenlighting ...
Blood transfusions from young people unlikely to have much-hyped anti-aging effects
The author of a study published [Nov. 22] cautioned against the idea that transfusions of “young” blood can reverse the ...
How a one-in-a-billion genetic disorder may lead to new ways to treat obesity and diabetes
Abby Solomon suffers from a one-in-a-billion genetic syndrome: After just about an hour without food, she begins to starve...[But as ...
Promising Alzheimer’s drug solanezumab fails late-stage trial, hitting dead end
An investigational Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly failed to slow the progression of the memory-destroying disease in a late-stage trial, ...
WHO announces that Zika is no longer a public health emergency – it’s worse
Zika virus no longer represents a public health emergency, the World Health Organisation announced on [Nov. 18]. On the face ...
Understanding how genetics influences behavior could motivate people to change
Genetic influence on human characteristics is often misinterpreted. It is wrongly assumed that a behavior that has strong genetic influence...must ...
Talking Biotech: Florida’s Kevin Folta on anti-GMO groups scaring consumers about glyphosate in foods
Florida’s Kevin Folta on anti-GMO groups scaring consumers about glyphosate in foods ...
Tumor cells can eat cancer-fighting stem cells, triggering breast cancer to reappear
What many [breast cancer] survivors worry about...is that their breast cancer may come back. It has puzzled scientists and health ...
