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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Precision medicine’s cost challenges: Are there lower tech alternatives?
Precision medicine is leading to cures but at high cost to healthcare systems. But there are emerging examples of lower-tech ...
What keeps your microbiome happy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The microbes in your ...
Brain scans can predict intelligence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Now that neuroscientists have ...
How much can a gene test really tell you about your health?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the past few ...
Regulatory oversight may have allowed deadly pig virus into US in 2013
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How diseases cross borders ...
How to distinguish a GMO hard-boiled egg from an organic one
This, is a Public Service Announcement from the good folks at Big Organic. Protect yourselves.... For the full explanation of ...
What to do when gene test for breast cancer risk comes back uncertain?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2013, U.S. actress ...
Birth month predicts dementia risk later in life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The month of your ...
Will chronic fatigue syndrome receive attention it deserves?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This past July, Brian ...
Autism and health fears lead families to abandon science, find scapegoat in GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When doctors diagnosed their ...
Migraines may come down to one neurotransmitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Blocking a single neurotransmitter ...
Nobel-winning drugs only part of solution for elephantiasis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the 1970s, William ...
Elephants’ remarkable longevity hints at mechanisms for cancer resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 1977, a University ...
DNA repair award highlights critical disease research
When DNA has been damaged, repair mechanisms can begin which help to ameliorate the damage ...
Chemistry Nobel awarded for DNA self-repair mechanisms discovery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2015 Nobel Prize ...
Women at higher risk for insomnia, thanks to genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women are known to ...
23andMe granted government approval for a direct-to-consumer Bloome syndrome genome test
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A recent FDA decision ...
Australian woman wins legal battle against US biotech company’s BRCA genes patent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Queensland cancer survivor Yvonne ...
Stomach bug just a few small mutations away from Black Plague
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Each year, 4 million ...
Mental illness: Genes form underlying basis, but the environment dictates who actually becomes ill
Figuring out the relative contributions of genetics to mental illness could go a long way to devising counseling, screening and ...
UNESCO bioethics panel calls for moratorium on human genome editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A UNESCO panel of ...
Understanding how fetal tissue is medically used
The public discussion about abortion and fetal tissue has obscured a discussion of how the tissues are ethically and legally ...
Pig organs may soon be suitable for human transplant, thanks to CRISPR
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For decades, scientists and ...
Epigenetics: Why there’s no such thing as a ‘perfect’ human body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Epigenetics is a burgeoning ...
UK womb transplants met with ethical concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ten women in the ...
One year after ‘Fearbola’ hysteria, what we’ve learned about dealing with epidemics?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s been a year ...
Gene edited allergy-free peanuts on horizon but GMO fears may block arrival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While you won’t find ...
