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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Genes from honeybees and African frogs help create a new species of genetically modified mosquitoes that neutralize malaria at the source
Scientists have genetically modified the main malaria-carrying species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa to slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites ...
Viewpoint: How reporters regularly botch food nutrition studies
We've reached a point where you must assume everything the media says about nutrition is false. This is a drastic ...
How can you distinguish normal aging from dementia — and what do you need to do to diagnose your situation?
A blood test that can be used to make a precise diagnosis of people with symptoms of dementia is just ...
We now know a possible trigger for Type 1 diabetes
It seems that a common bacterium found in the human gut makes a protein that looks just enough like insulin ...
Video: Viewpoint — Is challenging obese people to lose weight fat shaming?
Has the body positivity movement gone too far? That's the question Dr. Phil posed to me and five other panelists ...
Infographic: Just one mosquito species can spread 54 viruses. Here’s how genetic modification can help us conquer this disease-spreading, destructive powerhouse
Aedes aegypti is one of the most common mosquitoes in the U.S. that can spread disease. One of the best-known ...
These key grizzly bear genes keep them diabetes-free over long winter hibernations — offering clues to how we might better treat the disease in humans
If a human ate tens of thousands of calories a day, ballooned in size, then barely moved for months, the ...
‘Olfactory training’: 5% of COVID survivors have long-lasting smell and taste problems. Here’s what can help recover their senses
Without smell, you may not recognize the telltale signs of fires, natural gas leaks, poisonous chemicals or spoiled food and ...
Viewpoint: Toxicologist explains why we should be grateful for chemicals — and the safety labels that come with them
Everyone needs to drink dihydrogen monoxide (yep that’s water) or at least drink other fluids that contain a lot of ...
Viewpoint: Splenda scare? Should we be concerned about reports linking artificial sweeteners to strokes?
I’ve learned to allow my patients to have strange tastes in beverages. Should I be tolerant towards their drive to ...
Fertility clinic is unavailable or too expensive? One woman’s experience using a ‘global fertility courier’ to find affordable, quality reproductive care
Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. We—my dog Stewie and I—were in seat 8D, while 12 of my ...
Viewpoint: Blind optimism — Cynicism plays an important role in science but it won’t help us solve the world’s most crushing problems
Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. It’s no wonder, then, that pessimistic messages hit the headlines, and optimistic ones hardly ...
Can you damage your body by regularly donating blood?
One question has plagued the field of blood donation for as long as there have been transfusions: Are we harming ...
Find it hard to control your appetite and keep your weight in check? Bigger breakfasts maximize metabolism, research suggests
Eating a big breakfast and a smaller dinner could aid weight loss by making you feel less hungry, say researchers ...
Can ginger, chili peppers or green tea keep you full for longer? Scientist fact-checks common diet claims
It's likely that your weekly shop is packed with packaging promising that the food inside will taste great, stay fresh ...
Seeking a fertility treatment? With eggs and sperm now storable for half a century, here’s what you should know.
The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten ...
How Africa’s genetic diversity can be harnessed to close the continent’s ‘drug and treatment gap’
“I have begged to just die.” Those were the words of Sadeh Sophia, a sickle cell disease patient. Although living ...
When will we see a combined annual shot for flu and COVID? Moderna CEO talks about dual shot timeline and research on personalized cancer vaccine
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
Does your sweat reek? It could be protecting you from serious illnesses
Back in 2020, [microbiologist Gavin] Thomas and his colleagues found that one critter on the skin, called Staphylococcus hominis, produces an especially pungent ...
TikTok fact check: No, malaria-fighting GMO mosquitoes released in Florida are not a vector for ‘Bill Gates’ next planned pandemic’
Claims that the Bill Gates-funded company Oxitec is responsible for a paralyzing mosquito-borne virus spreading through Florida have recently circulated ...
4 in ten Americans are obese. Producers need to harness biotechnology to make spinach as tasty as popcorn
Nutritionists are trying to get us to eat healthier, particularly to lose weight or maintain it after having lost it ...
Do you take creatine as a workout supplement? It could soon be used to treat depression
A bounty of evidence shows that taking creatine supplements raises the threshold of fatigue, which particularly comes in handy for ...
We’re often too nervous to offer acts of kindness. Why?
In August of last year, BBC Radio 4 teamed up with psychologists at the University of Sussex to launch the ...
Circadian rhythm: How do our sleeping cycles affect how we experience pain?
In a recently published study, scientists led by Claude Gronfier at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre in France have finally shed ...
Physician responsibility: Why are many terminal cancer patients not told they are dying?
Unrealistic expectations fueled by direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising depicting happy cancer survivors and the pharma industry’s influence on oncologists hang over ...
Differentiating between COVID misinformation and evolving science
With the announcement by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, that “The CDC has to ...
Are you a mosquito magnet? Science explains why
Mosquitoes are very sensitive to CO2 and can sense a CO2 source that is many meters away. Receptor cells on ...
