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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Food, genetic engineering and public opinion: Do popular concerns matter?
Confounding many scientists, the public remains skeptical of GM foods yet embraces biotech medicines. Why the difference? What can we ...
Autism study reveals patterns in family genetics
A study of 2,377 children with autism, their parents and siblings - data from families with one child with autism ...
Going bald? It’s not your mother’s fault
You’re only 25 and you’ve begun to lose your hair? Before you freak out (entirely), remember that everyone loses hair ...
New therapy could greatly improve lives of cystic fibrosis patients
A "groundbreaking" cystic fibrosis therapy could profoundly improve patients' quality of life, say doctors. Patients often die before their 40s ...
How psychologist made decision to end own life after Alzheimer’s diagnosis
For two years, Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor, had been experiencing what she called “cognitive oddities”: forgetting the names of ...
Genetics of depression: Could a test have prevented the Germanwings catastrophe?
Major depression affects an estimated 10 percent of the population and often runs in families. Could a genetic test could ...
Should genetic testing be more widely used in medicine than it already is?
As the price of genetic testing continues to fall and the value of the information we're getting from those tests ...
Genetics might help explain why some people have stronger emotions than others
Your genes may influence how sensitive you are to emotional information, according to a new study which found that carriers ...
Removing antibiotics from food makes a difference, removing GMOs doesn’t
A lot of food companies are jumping on the transparency bandwagon. Panera, Chipotle, and Pepsi are labeling foods and removing ...
Claims that technology is making children autistic are unfounded
Here we go again. Recently, British newspapers: The Telegraph, The Independent and The Metro (a paper given out free on public transport right across the ...
Rabies virus becomes unlikely tool for mapping brain networks
Humans have a long tradition of turning things that harm us into things that help us. We made bears into ...
Celiac disease linked to nerve damage, but doctors still not sure why
Celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes intestinal damage when a person eats gluten, is still something of a medical mystery ...
In medicine, listening to the patient matters
Medicine is dominated by the quants. We learn about human health from facts, and facts are measurable. A disease is ...
Should human germline gene editing even be considered for future use?
Rumors about human germline editing experiments prompted scientists to gather in January in Napa, Calif. Discussions there led two groups ...
Typhoid fever threat growing as antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreads
An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" strain of typhoid fever has spread globally, driven by a single family of the bacteria, called H58, ...
My journey from suburban mom and chef to GMO and science advocate
I’m a suburban mom. I became an accidental activist when I uncovered a nefarious corporate/government scheme to poison my food ...
Why GMOs? Challenging anti-technology conspiracy theories
Used appropriately, genetic engineering is a fantastic tool—to create new life-saving drugs and encourage cutting edge ecologically based farming techniques ...
Science Babe is back! New target: Natural Food Movement
A few weeks ago, the website The Naked Label published a picture of a vibrant, colorful mushroom. It was captioned ...
Celebrity mom’s Mother’s Day video demonizes GMO foods as dangerous
Malin Akerman, Frances Fisher, Constance Zimmer, Sharon Osbourne. These Hollywood A-listers have one big thing in common: They’re mothers who ...
Can’t have a baby? Is choosing your child’s genetic parents’ characteristics racism, vanity or eugenics?
Many people choose gametes--donated eggs and sperm--so that their child will look like them but also have a certain IQ ...
Can Myriad Genetics maintain hold on breast cancer tests two years after loss of patents?
Myriad Genetics Inc., used a patent-protected monopoly to become one of the most successful and controversial DNA testing companies in the world ...
NIH won’t fund research towards human embryo gene editing
Recently, the use of gene editing has proven a useful practice in the prevention of genetic diseases and disorders for ...
Genes might explain differences in how we experience emotions
Your genes may influence how sensitive you are to emotional information, according to new research by a UBC neuroscientist. The ...
Can a genetic test tell you what sport you should play?
My family and I - husband Kenny and my children, Lois and Reuben - sent off a swab to be ...
Panera latest consumer-senstive food company to ditch controversial ingredients
I think 2015 will go down as the year that food manufacturers and restaurants started ditching ingredients based on consumer ...
