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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Chemicals in food packaging is an increasing health threat
A research study, published in the Nature Medicine journal, explores the health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food. The scientists identify ...
The disabled, the elderly and the poor: Trump administration flirts with eugenics
Trump has deployed in his administration and in his relationships with billionaires a group of the old and new eugenicists ...
Biotech companies are pioneering research to use electricity to cure diseases. Here’s how
Electricity is gaining newfound traction as a potential treatment for diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to hard-to-treat cancers including glioblastoma and ...
Viewpoint: Are you a ‘culinary criminal’ for eating a hot dog?
Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a ...
RFK Jr. stacks purged vaccine committee with ‘covid contrarians’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight people to the influential federal panel that recommends vaccines ...
GLP podcast: Marijuana legalization—smart policy or risk to public health?
With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...
Sperm donor with cancer-prone mutation conceived at least 67 children across Europe
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the FDA to closely regulate unreviewed chemicals in our food
Although a comprehensive fix to the “Generally Recognized” standard will require legislation from Congress, there are significant steps the FDA ...
When European politicians and ‘experts’ debate the future of farming, they listen to everyone but farmers
Georges Clemenceau once said war was too important to be left to the generals. Today, in Brussels, agriculture is too ...
Electric respiration: Bacteria that ‘breathe’ electricity could revolutionize wastewater treatment and biomanufacturing
A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural ...
‘Humanized mice’: Chimeras fuel quest to treat chronic diseases, cancer and even COVID-19
Some medical conditions can't be ethically investigated in humans, so researchers are finding interesting ways to grow people parts in ...
Gene editing embryos: Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong funding ethically controversial project
Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on ...
FaceAge AI uses snapshots to predict biological age and help oncologists tailor treatments
A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School uses a snapshot of a patient’s face to ...
Viewpoint: ‘Utter nonsense’—A biologist’s view of the administration’s declaration defining biological sex
It’s odd for me, as a long-time author of college biology textbooks, to witness governments rule on the nature of ...
RFK, Jr. guts Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine panel, plays sleight-of-hand with promise to Senate
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on [June 9] removed all 17 members of the expert panel that makes vaccine ...
Learning about the brain: It’s less like a machine than a swarm of starlings
When we consider the highways traversing the brain and how signals establish behaviourally relevant relationships across the central nervous system, ...
Viewpoint: Autism epidemic? RFK, Jr. has grifted off of this lie for decades
If you saw the recent HHS Press Briefing by RFK Jr., you’re likely as horrified as I am. RFK Jr ...
Viewpoint and book review: Egg donation is not only commodified — it is also racialized
A recent journalistic investigation of the global [human] egg trade at Bloomberg put the industry’s unregulated practices and their exploitative implications ...
Do microplastics pose a threat to food and farming on a global scale?
Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and vegetables we ...
Bioterrorism experts not buying Trump’s FBI administration claims that Chinese students smuggled in fungus for a bioweapon
Fungus already widespread in U.S., poses little food safety risk, experts say Experts say it would be ineffective as agricultural ...
With the Trump administration’s dismantling of the NIH, the Human Genome Project records are poised to be inaccessible
The archival records [at the National Human Genome Research Institute, which is one of the 27 agencies comprising the NIH] … are ...
How worried should you be about the health effects of microplastics?
Animal studies indicate that microplastics may harm reproduction, particularly sperm quality. They can also affect lung and gut functioning and ...
Viewpoint: The Trump administration’s conspiratorial view of COVID endangers U.S. disease research
Disease cure research in the United States—for cancer, for Alzheimer's disease, even for pediatric heart defects—has been stopped. Graduate school ...
Are chemicals causing a decline in fertility in men? Here’s how ideology corrupts evidence-based science
Attempts to make science conform to ideology have enjoyed a long and dispiriting history. For many centuries, religion was the ...
Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical concerns
[S]ome doctors and scientists say it is time to take the extraordinary step of unleashing gene editing to suppress mosquitoes ...
Investigation: TikTok is awash with misleading and potentially dangerous health information
More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation ...
Viewpoint: Battles erupt among Republicans over food and pesticides
Some in the Republican Party say they’re worried about farmers in their districts who rely on pesticides. And there are ...
