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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Severe genetic birth defects not as lethal as doctors once thought
Parents of newborns with rare genetic conditions used to hear the grim words that the severe birth defects were “incompatible with ...
Genetics might help grow perfect cup of coffee
Coffee is in danger around the world, but experimental farmers want to save it by finding a variety that can ...
Y-chromosome not going extinct, but losing it may be risk factor for Alzheimer disease
The story of the Y chromosome began about 300 million years ago, when the ancestors of mammals diverged from reptiles ...
Americans disinterested in using science to build better humans
Americans aren’t very enthusiastic about using science to enhance the human species. Instead, many find it rather creepy. A new ...
How gene-swapping microbes helped humans evolve
Bacteria have been carrying out these horizontal gene transfers, or HGT for short, for billions of years. But it wasn’t ...
Latvian women, Dutch men world’s tallest nationalities
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals. The average ...
Can gene therapy reverse aging?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September 2015, [Elizabeth] ...
Genetic analysis may predict students’ academic success
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Teachers and parents may ...
Why do we sleep?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. why do we sleep? ...
Discovery of fire likely evolutionary boon for early humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How and when did ...
US government seeking 1 million volunteers for decade-long genetics and lifestyle study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Government scientists are seeking ...
Women may be more resilient to Alzheimer’s genes than men
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Certain gene variants are ...
Primates, bacteria of microbiome evolved together
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The symbiotic relationship between ...
Thousands of studies over 3 decades may have used contaminated or misidentified cell lines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The problem is this: ...
In ‘Redesigning Life’, analysis of ethical issues of gene editing falls short
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In Redesigning Life, molecular ...
CRISPR gene editing could eliminate AIDS virus
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. ... The problem faced ...
Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides
Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides ...
Another modern myth: Shrinking attention spans
Are modern conveniences and technology causing our attention spans to shrink? No, actually they're just adapting ...
After 8 years and $8 million, gene therapy begins for 12-year-old with rare neurological disorder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [July 21, 2016], 8 ...
What’s behind expansion of personalization of healthcare?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the Cleveland ...
Anti-biotech hidden agenda: Link GMO feed to conventional dairy products to scare adoption of organics
Why is organic dairy, which industry leaders call a "gateway product", so important to anti-GMO movement? ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
What happens when we die? Microbes in your ‘necrobiome’ take over body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What happens when we ...
Treatment used for wound healing may reverse menopause, restoring menstruation and fertility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MENOPAUSE need not be ...
Synthetic bacteria programmed to deliver cancer drugs inside body directly to tumor
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A synthetic genetic circuit ...
Human Connectome Project maps brain’s cortex into 180 distinct compartments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new brain map, ...
First human CRISPR trial to be conducted in China to treat lung cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chinese scientists are on ...
