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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How CRISPR could change the world—And why that frightens many of us
Gene editing could revolutionize the world in a way akin to how the personal computer did. Most Americans are unaware ...
Mining Zika for genetic data may reveal how virus evolves, spreads and how it can be stopped
Pardis Sabeti is a computational geneticist who works at the Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, where she pinpoints the genetic ...
Clinton and Trump need to talk about issues in genetics, precision medicine more
An organization...has crowdsourced and expert-checked a list of “20 science-driven issues (that) deserve their own debate” for the presidential candidates ...
Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel Prize for his work in “self eating” cells
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about the secrets of ...
Do GMO enzymes used in natural flavorings and cleaning products promote allergies?
Genetically modified enzymes used in food, perfumes, medicine and cleaning products are “potent allergens” and should be tested like other ...
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore makes case for sustainable GMO Golden Rice
It's not news that Patrick Moore is frustrated with ...Greenpeace. While he was an original founder of the group... And ...
GMO critics say Golden Rice not a ‘silver bullet’ in fight against vitamin A deficiency
...16 years and a lot of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation later, and some progress has been ...
Should genome scanning be extended to patients with no family history of diseases?
Hundreds of thousands of patients have now received genetic testing over the past 2 decades through health care providers — ...
How human chimeras could revolutionize science and medicine
The NIH appears ready to fund scientists who want to make and study human chimeras. What can we hope to ...
Genetically engineered gut bacteria may replace pill in delivering drugs
Swallowing a pill isn’t always the best delivery method for some drugs — for instance, they may not survive the ...
Unlocking cancer: Newly discovered cell switch decides between DNA repair and cell death
The genetic information of every cell is encoded in the sequence of the DNA double helix. Double strand breaks in ...
Despite hype and promise of cures, only a few gene therapy trials have yielded helpful drugs
Most experts in the medical field will tell you that gene therapy has finally come of age, but the numbers ...
100,000 brains: UK Biobank Imaging Study releases first batch of disease progression data
[R]esearchers [have recently] released the first results from the UK Biobank Imaging Study, a massive effort that ultimately aims to ...
Talking Biotech: University of Southampton’s Mark Chapman on eggplant’s evolution, benefits of GMO variety
University of Southampton's Mark Chapman on evolution of eggplant, benefits of GMO variety; reflections on Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug ...
Mothers should birth twins early, at 37 weeks, to prevent complications
Twin pregnancies are at high risk of stillbirths compared to mothers carrying just one baby. This risk increases 13-fold if ...
Everything you need to know about three-parent babies
A baby boy has been born using DNA from three people – the first ever birth resulting from a new ...
Genetics may explain tendency towards violence in our evolutionary history
Humans are predisposed to murder each other, new research suggests, although it remains unclear if it’s down to genetics or ...
Men are from Earth, women are too: Sexes not so different when it comes to sex
There are gender differences in sexual behavior, to be sure, but with certain phenomena, women are far more similar to ...
Why do some skeptics still claim GMOs unhealthy despite abundant contrary evidence?
The real question is whether [genetically] modified foods have been shown to cause harm in adults and children... Jon Entine, ...
European Food Safety Authority will release glyphosate assessment data
EFSA is to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate, saying the move is ...
Four expert panels say data don’t support IARC’s classification of glyphosate as carcinogenic
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a monograph in 2015 concluding that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to ...
Looking back on ten years of induced pluripotent stem cell research
Research and emerging treatments with stem cells today can be traced to a startling discovery 10 years ago when Shinya ...
Are genes more important than practice for excelling in games, sports, and academics?
[The] age-old debate: nature versus nurture, genetics versus effort. We’ve been having it long before we knew what DNA was...[T]he ...
Genes tied to birth weight in infants also linked to diabetes, heart disease later in life
Birth weight of babies is influenced by genes that are also linked to the risk of developing a range of ...
Turning body’s own defenses to fight tumors: Does CAR-T work?
There’s new hope that a much-hyped class of immunotherapies could revolutionize cancer treatment...But experts remain cautious about safety and efficacy ...
Each of us has a genetically-programmed aging clock
Five per cent of us are genetically programmed to age faster and die younger than everyone else, a groundbreaking new ...
Why autism genes persist in human gene pool
It has been suspected for some time that numerous defective genes are responsible for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but now, ...
