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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Genetics suggest wheat gluten allergies mostly imaginary
Some of the anti-glutenists argue that we haven’t eaten wheat for long enough to adapt to it as a species ...
Antibiotics may exert long-lasting effects on gut microbiome
Even short pulses of widely used antibiotics can lead to long-term development changes in mouse pups, including increased body mass ...
Friends of the Earth ‘investigation’ of GMO science supporters dismissed as “contrived”
Like a previous report from food activist Michele Simon a few years ago (Best PR Money Can Buy) the Alliance for ...
Could Africa’s own indigenous ‘superfoods’ rival GMOs?
Superfoods exist in Africa thanks not to the genius and beneficence of a foreign company, but rather through millennia of ...
Should everyone be tested for high-risk cancer genes?
About 1,500 patients at risk of hereditary cancer are seen each year in Ireland. Most of these cases are related ...
Ebola survivors’ blood may offer way to fight any disease
Past Ebola outbreaks killed as many as 90 percent of the people who got the disease. This most recent one ...
Measles virus’s high transmissibility further stresses importance of vaccination
In its bulletin the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC said that a toddler traveling from India gave a Minneapolis man measles when the ...
Chimera alert? Myths and facts of human-non-human animal hybrids in medicine
Science is making leaps and bounds creating part human and part non-human animal tissues and organs. The applications are medical, ...
Are we ready to genetically modify humans to eliminate heritable diseases?
The application of transgenic technology to medicine is rarely discussed. Much of the reason, I think, is that many people ...
Researchers look into animal genomes in search of causes of human diseases
Precision medicine still struggles with a basic problem: understanding how genomic context can amplify or mute the effects of isolated mutations ...
New gene test makes earlier pancreatic cancer detection possible
Researchers have discovered a protein encoded by the glypican-1 (GPC1) gene present on cancer exomes that may be used as part ...
Do men and women experience pain the same way?
Do women and men experience chronic pain differently? A new study suggests there may be sex differences when it comes ...
Disinfecting equipment helps prevent spread of infection at the gym
In addition to water bottles, disinfectant spray bottles have become commonplace in many athletic facilities. The routine is simple to ...
Wrong to discredit herbicide-resistant GMOs with C-word
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved for use in 15 states a new product called Enlist Duo, which is ...
iPhone app employed to study specific health needs of LGBT community
We don't know as much as we'd like about the role sexual orientation and gender identity play in health and ...
Are we nearing the end of antibiotics?
The antibiotic era isn’t actually very old. It begins, depending on how picky you are, with Alexander Fleming’s accidental recognition of ...
New genome mapping technique can explain tuberculosis susceptibility
The fight against tuberculosis (TB) has been extended through the use of a genetic mapping technique called admixture mapping. This ...
Epic FBI DNA database may reveal private health information
Database behind nearly all DNA-based forensic investigations may also have our health information. Or not. Should we be concerned? ...
How your gut microbiome may affect your brain and emotions
Bacteria in the gut produce vitamins and break down our food; their presence or absence has been linked to obesity, ...
Is the ‘hug hormone’ key to reversing social skills deficits?
Oxytocin has been of keen interest to neuroscientists since the 1970s, when studies started to show that it could drive ...
CRISPR’s potential in gene therapy shadowed by concerns over ethical use
Tracy Antonelli and her three daughters suffer from thalassemia, a blood disorder that saps their strength, leaves them anemic, and ...
Despite continuing mainstream popularity, ‘Grain Brain’ author finds little support from medical experts
In recent months, the media has become increasingly impatient with high-profile health advocates who dispense unsubstantiated medical advice. Among the ...
Should men consider sperm-freezing to prevent age-related genetic mutations?
Younger men should consider freezing their sperm to avoid their children having genetic disorders if they choose to have them ...
Pill that preserves youthfulness proposed for approval to fight age-related diseases
Doctors and scientists want drug regulators and research funding agencies to consider medicines that delay ageing-related disease as legitimate drugs ...
Asthma and Atopic March Syndrome caused by GMOs? Science says ‘No’
Anti-GMO activists have lumped together a lot of allergic reactions into a syndrome caused by GMOs. Asthma shows how wrong ...
Regulators unreasonably stifling ‘biopharmed’ life-saving drug development from genetically engineered plants
Obtaining medicines from plants is not new. Aspirin was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree in the ...
National Academy forum challenges anti-GMO claim that DNA in food ‘invades’ bloodstream
Can science self-correct to protect against sloppy or politicized research? Scientist Mary Mangan discusses the controversy over a study that ...
