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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Challenge to Apple, Facebook: Unfair to prioritize egg-freezing over childcare
The pressure is immense. In stepped a few corporate giants with a plan meant to help young (and youngish) women ...
How do viruses become contagious?
Here are two recent stories about viruses. They started out alike, and ended up very differently. In October, a woman ...
DNA testing under fire in wake of fake herbal supplements investigation
An investigation using DNA barcoding of four giant retailers--Walmart, GNC, Target and Walgreen's--finds most supplements do not contain the herbs ...
Does harder living translate to shorter lifespans?
A common belief among human life history researchers is that "harsher" environments - i.e., those with higher mortality rates and ...
What’s lurking in New York City’s subway?
The Wall Street Journal released an interactive map of the bacteria in New York’s subway system. And as expected, it's ...
How oncologists sort through masses of genetic data
Whether they are concerned with a mutation of a single gene, or mutations in a combination of two or more ...
Precision medicine is a big step in the right direction
Re “ ‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down” (Op-Ed, Jan. 29): Michael J. Joyner asserts that precision medicine, an exciting ...
Woman’s rapid weight gain raises questions over fecal transplant
The case of a normal-weight woman who rapidly became obese after receiving a fecal transplant from an overweight relative has ...
More potential health benefits found from drinking red wine
Researchers at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine report that a compound found in common foods such as ...
In retrospect, Obama’s personalized medicine initiative is nothing new
In the State of the Union speech delivered on January 20, President Obama made the first announcement of what seems ...
Genome tracking tech could make improve food safety and reduce food fraud
Each year foodborne illnesses caused by these microorganisms sicken 48 million Americans, hospitalize 128,000 and kill 3,000.... Food fraud is ...
Obesity becoming less severe in young children
The rise in childhood obesity, which has left one in three children overweight, may be beginning to level off in ...
Gut microbes may be engineered to fight vitamin deficiency
It's easy to forget how horrifying the effects of a vitamin deficiency can be. Each year, up to 500,000 children ...
Neurological impact of premature birth starting to become known
Thanks to medical advances since the 1970s, premature infants — those born before 37 weeks of gestation — are increasingly ...
Toxic warning alert: Food Babe’s new book full of chemicals
Vani Hari, aka the Food Babe Babe, is launching her new book The Food Babe Way, in just a few short ...
Circadian desynchrony: Can obesity be treated with electricity?
Could a key factor in the obesity epidemic be attributed to the disruption of our metabolic functions (which are intended ...
Motion sickness? Genes might be to blame
Breathe deep and look at the horizon. It’s the sagely advice many of us have heard who experience motion sickness, ...
Growing privacy concerns over California DNA collection
Privacy advocates are calling for more safeguards related to a state collection of DNA samples from 16 million Californians in ...
Anti-Vaxx? Anti-GMO? Or just simply Anti-science?
While having been one of the visible opponents for vaccinations, the View's host Jenny McCarthy made a bit of a startling ...
Epigenetic markers predict mortality better than biological age
Chemical changes to DNA that accumulate over a lifetime amount to a kind of biological clock. By analyzing these changes, ...
Paralysis-causing virus proving difficult to identify
Since August 2014, more than 100 children and young adults in the United States have developed a mysterious paralysis. Many ...
Breakthrough in breast cancer research reveals epigenetic link
Decoding the letters of the human genome revolutionised scientists' understanding of the role of genetic mutations in many diseases, including ...
Sometimes, evolution comes with negative side effects
From rashes to irritable bowels, people today face certain health challenges because our ancestors evolved the genetic variations associated with ...
That ‘Precision Medicine’ initiative? A Reality Check
What, precisely, is Precision Medicine? It's pretty much everything. The ambition of the plan is admirable, but the hurdles in ...
How activists, sloppy reporters turned genetic firewall story into hysteria-gram on GMO dangers
In the hands of activists and sloppy reporters, breakthrough research on setting genetic 'kill switches' to prevent synthetic genes from ...
With House of Commons decision looming, what are researchers’ opinions on mitochondrial replacement?
On February 3, 2015, the House of Commons will be given the opportunity to approve a remarkable scientific technique: mitochondrial ...
What does Obama’s precision medicine initiative mean for future medical research?
The precision medicine initiative proposed by President Barack Obama last week would center on a huge new biobank containing medical ...
