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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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 ...
Trials halted for Ebola drug after no results seen in human patients
One of the highly anticipated trials of an Ebola drug that showed promising results in monkeys has been stopped early ...
Frederick P. Li, scientist who helped prove genetic link to cancer risk, dies
Dr. Frederick P. Li, who helped prove to a doubting medical establishment that heredity and genetics play a major role in some ...
Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
Transhumanist dilemma: Should we be allowed unlimited access to our own genetic information?
Up until recently, those in the technology industry and those conducting genomic research would have been considered strange bedfellows. But ...
MERS arrival in yet another country raises concerns about global preparedness
A respiratory virus that originates in the Middle East and has been hopscotching the globe for three years has landed in ...
Hollywood celebrities embrace pseudoscience, promote anti-GMO movie “Consumed”
Even as the consensus on the safety of GMO foods grows, a faction in Hollywood appears to be lining up ...
Ongoing lack of MERS vaccine inexcusable as virus spreads in South Korea
Three years after the mysterious MERS virus first emerged in humans, scientists and drugmakers say there is no excuse for ...
Is routine Down syndrome screening a social justice issue?
Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed. Visions of ...
Gene therapy treatment for bowel cancer may be on the horizon
Bowel cancer’s origins can often be traced back to just a single faulty gene: APC – short for adenomatous polyposis coli ...
Mitochondrial medicine: Pushing the limits of resuscitation
Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell. Along with understanding the role of mitochondria in causing damage to the ...
Understanding HIV’s genetic code will help treat patients with greater precision
A virus contains its own genes, but it is able to replicate only when it gets inside the cells of ...
DDT found to dramatically raise breast cancer risk in women exposed while in womb
Women exposed in the womb to high levels of the pesticide DDT have a nearly fourfold increased risk of developing breast cancer, ...
Synthetic internal ‘clock’ could help treat obesity
Non-scientists generally think of “circadian clock” as a metaphoric term. There’s nothing literally ticking away inside the human body, helping ...
Legal battle ensues with Myiad Genetics over DNA ownership rights
The High Court in Canberra has begun hearing a case pitting 69-year-old Brisbane grandmother Yvonne D'Arcy against a US biotech ...
Moms’ genes pass fatal flaws onto sons more than daughters
Men are doomed by their mothers - because women pass on genetic flaws which may explain why males die sooner, ...
DNA test to sell personalized skin care products: Scam or science?
What’s being billed as the future of skin care starts suspiciously like a visit to the dentist: with a mouthwash ...
Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal: Debating gender and racial identity
Some in the queer community have summarily dismissed any possible similarities between Caitlyn Jenner - who recently came out as a trans ...
280 global science organizations affirm consensus for GMO food and crop safety
Currently there is a social and political controversy about the safety of of foods produced from genetically modified (GM) crops, ...
Could spray on DNA barcoding contain health contamination crises and trace GMOs?
Food contamination outbreaks could be better tracked with a new technology: spraying DNA barcodes directly onto food. It could also ...
Ovary transplants could help fight infertility, but what are the risks?
For the first time, a woman who had an ovary removed as a child and part of it re-implanted as ...
Finding Ebola’s hiding place key to stopping another major outbreak
No one foresaw, back in December 2013, that the little boy who fell ill in a village called Méliandou, in ...
America is experiencing its worst bird flu outbreak ever: Why aren’t we more concerned?
Which epidemic has caused Americans greater anxiety: the Ebola outbreak, which began last year in Africa and has killed thousands ...
Genetically modified rice could help address China’s smog problems
Chinese scientists have found a way to change the genetic make-up of a popular species of rice, a move they ...
African indigenous vegetables are genetic treasure trove of nutrition, hardiness
In Nairobi, indigenous vegetables were once sold almost exclusively at hard-to-find specialized markets; and although these plants have been favoured ...
Can the placebo effect serve as actual medical treatment?
Currently, studies have shown that our genes can be modified by epigenetic factors such as; diet, life experiences, beliefs, perceptions, ...
