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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Doctors’ subconscious stereotypes detrimental to black patients
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African Americans are routinely ...
Artificial uterus: How close is the reality?
Nobody is working on an artificial uterus that can carry a fetus for the entirety of a pregnancy. But medical ...
Zika complications may go beyond microcephaly, researchers fear
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Top Zika investigators now ...
Mass genome sequencing likely best shot for cancer ‘magic bullet’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As breast cancer specialist ...
Do GMO labels address food issues consumers care about?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Both the pro-labeling and ...
GMO, BPA, or gluten-free, processed food is still not that healthy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Americans these days don’t ...
Multiple studies, with and without conflicts of interest, find no glyphosate in breast milk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The herbicide glyphosate does not ...
Oxytocin ‘love’ hormone? Scientists now doubting its supposed effects on trust
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Here's one conclusion from ...
GM mosquitoes can put end to Zika: Why don’t people trust them?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The mosquito-borne Zika virus ...
‘Anti-aging’ protein might not be key to youthfulness after all
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growth differentiation factor 11 ...
Does modern biotechnology signal rise of new eugenics movement?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s comforting now to ...
Climate changes expected to increase premature births, impact mental health
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Climate change can be ...
Can epigenetics explain the negative effects of smoking during pregnancy?
It is widely known that smoking during pregnancy has negative impacts on the future child. Could epigenetics underlie the link ...
Sanders’s voting record hasn’t been favorable to medical research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary ...
Little-known degenerative disease gradually degrades language skills
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I first start ...
Your housemate may be altering your immune system
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our veins are swimming ...
Talking Biotech: Shelley McGuire, lactation specialist: No glyphosate in breast milk; Glyphosate in wine?
Lactation specialist Shelley McGuire finds no glyphosate in breastmilk, Thomas Colquhoun discusses glyphosate traces in wine ...
Being a vegetarian can kill you? How the press mashed a genetics story
Being a vegetarian won't kill you: What happens when the media confuse a hypothesis with an outcome ...
Race to fight Zika bringing together opposing fields of research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With the Zika virus ...
Aromatherapy may benefit anxiety symptoms, influenza
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A wildly underrated member ...
You think “eugenics” is a discredited practice? Think again, it’s back.
Is eugenics a historical evil poised for a comeback? Or is it a noble but oft-abused concept, finally being done ...
How much do genes shape your psychology?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are poor people poor ...
New brain scanner detects neural magnetic field
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Measuring the activity of ...
UK setting research focus on child cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK scientists are beginning ...
Anti-GMO activist’s talk moved from museum after failure to produce supporting data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The story was a ...
Proposed fetal stem cell research bans would slow progress against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A protein that helps ...
