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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Indigenous peoples seek to become partners, not guinea pigs in genetics research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Akimel O’odham (Pima), ...
Talking Biotech: Genetic improvements and virus resistance of cassava, African staple
Cassava focus: Barbara Schaal on natural history of African staple; Nigel Taylor on GM virus resistance ...
Gene therapy for malaria: Benefits far outweigh the risks
There's a new treatment emerging for malaria, a kind of gene therapy that makes the malaria parasite more susceptible to ...
How will big data analysis fit into everyday medicine?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the great ...
Evidence for inheritance of stress through epigenome found in sperm of mice
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the past several ...
IVF raises risk of ovarian cancer, new study shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The biggest study ever ...
What’s in your microbiome? This startup wants to know
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jessica Richman wants your ...
Colicins dilemma: Bio-pharmed food-borne illness-fighting drug in anti GMO dungeon
Colicins are a natural antibacterial that could help reduce outbreaks of infectious disease. But they face a lot of opposition ...
23andMe relaunching health tests with nod from FDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The genetic testing company 23andMe has ...
New mammogram guidelines point to flaws in breast cancer screening
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
First genome ‘surgery’ performed on DNA’s 3D structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. American researchers have performed ...
“Fear Babe”: New book dissects the scare tactics of Vani Hari
From preservatives to pesticides, "Fear Babe" examines the claims of self-proclaimed Food Babe Vani Hari and the most notorious food ...
Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm Art Caplan at ...
Confused when you should get a mammogram? Here’s why
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’re a woman ...
Concern rising over rainforest disease ‘neglected’ by drug companies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I told a story ...
Landmark study favors talk therapy over drugs in schizophrenia treatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than two million ...
‘Narcissistic food intolerance epidemic’ rages among affluent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Friends in Venice saw a restaurant ...
More evidence antioxidants can be dangerous, likely raise cancer risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Antioxidants have been pitched ...
Mysterious DNA in brain unexpected blessing for evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mutations can cost an ...
Toddler overcomes odds to survive internal decapitation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When Rylea Taylor pulled ...
GM plants can make drugs less costly, more attainable
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The cost of pharmaceuticals ...
Parkinson’s treatment shows promise in early trials
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An expensive cancer drug ...
Talking Biotech: India’s cotton whitefly attack; Vitamin-enhanced cassava
Hervé Vanderschuren on vitamin-enhanced cassava; Laura Boykin on India's whitefly cotton infestation ...
TNT’s “The Last Ship” shadows Ebolavirus crisis: How realistic is a contagious vaccine?
It’s wildly imaginative and the science breakthroughs and clinical development of a breathable treatment happen all too quickly on the ...
Gene tests may help identify best psychiatric meds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Food and ...
Techno-pressed societies sleep no less than primitive ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For years, public health ...
