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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Childhood sexual abuse major trigger for adulthood obesity, eating disorders
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Christine White was a ...
Taboo: Modern genomics key to understanding basis of ‘race’
The fierce decades-long debate between postmodernist social scientists and population geneticists over the biological basis of group human differences is ...
Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . For at ...
Are you acquainted with the critters on your face?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There are two species ...
Researchers search brain for clues to suicidal behavior
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Suicide is a serious ...
Sheep farmers join in search for Huntington’s disease cure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mike and Heather Ludlam ...
Antibiotic resistance genes identified in growing list of countries
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More news is emerging ...
Climate change, human activity causing brain damage in sea lions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sea lions are in ...
Dating app breach leaks 5,000 HIV‐positive users’ data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A security researcher has ...
Microbe ‘kill switch’ developed for safer use of engineered bacteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many research teams are ...
Taking antidepressants while pregnant linked to autism risk, but many scientists doubtful
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one really knows ...
Secret to living past 90 mostly in good genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mary Harada’s father lived ...
Orthorexia nervosa: Do anti-GMO activists and shoppers have it?
Orthorexia nervosa is being evaluated as a possible psychiatric diagnosis -- which is causing symptoms of anxiety among some elites ...
Unproven, dangerous cancer medicine got go-ahead from FDA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Walking the beaches around ...
Closer regulations needed on antipsychotic prescriptions for toddlers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Andrew Rios’s seizures began ...
Scientists working towards developing universal flu vaccine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Designing a flu vaccine ...
Food safety scientist predicted Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak 8 years ago
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. Douglas Powell saw ...
Can economic theory help us understand our gut microbiome?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Turns out microbial communities ...
Why humans uniquely live long enough to become grandparents
The Grandma Hypothesis suggests that humans were evolutionarily successful because older females helped their daughters raise children. But living beyond ...
Evolution of grandparents may explain genes that protect against dementia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Survival of the fittest” ...
Scientists can engineer mosquitoes to render them sterile, crashing malaria carrying population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. And now there are ...
Risk for smoking addiction may be coded in genome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study finds ...
Athletic fitness mostly in your genes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’re not seeing ...
Before autism diagnoses, patients poorly treated and institutionalized
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.For these reasons, what autism ...
After repeated health code violations, Seattle Chipotle restaurant closed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Seattle health officials closed ...
African sleeping sickness may be treated with epigenetic modification
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Parasitic infections are particularly ...
DIY gene editing at home? ‘Farma’ kits can produce home-brewed pharmaceuticals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MIT Media Lab graduate Will ...
