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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‘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 ...
Viewpoint: Natural ≠ better—RFK, Jr.’s recommended ban on artificial dyes provides the ‘illusion of meaningful action’ but no health benefits
Health Secretary RFK Jr. recently announced that eight artificial food dyes will be eliminated from the US food supply by ...
GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives
There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...
CRISPR wonder: First gene-edited spider spins red fluorescent silk
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have recently successfully bred the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9-modified spider to produce red fluorescent silk ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s impossible to separate MAHA from MAGA: Why the promised health revolution will mostly serve the privileged
[H]ow is a movement that’s simultaneously about individual responsibility and corporate oversight going to accomplish anything in the most deregulatory ...
Vaccines are under fire, accused of not being tested against a placebo. That’s wrong. Here’s how they are tested for safety
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to require all new vaccines be tested against a placebo ...
Viewpoint: ‘Could’, ‘hazardous’ and ‘linked’—Bad science reporting uses RFK, Jr.’s favorite words
From Wi-Fi causing "leaky brain" to the herbicide atrazine turning male frogs female, the myriad of crackpot concepts Kennedy spews ...
Kennedy claims the 1960s were a golden era of health, with far less disease. What’s the reality?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans ...
When profit-driven AI algorithms make medical decisions, vulnerable populations may suffer disproportionately
Automation promises speed, consistency and financial efficiency, but when it comes to healthcare, the increasing role of AI in such ...
How biotech shapes climate-smart agriculture in Asia and Australasia
“We’re in a race against time.” This is the alarming call of Silvia Restrepo, President of the Boyce Thompson Institute ...
GLP Spaces on X: Prescribing with precision—antidepressants without overmedicalization?
There's a ditch on both sides of the road, as the old saying goes, when it comes to antidepressants. While ...
