Science Controversies

The populist campaign to label genetically modified food has been successfully Swift-Boating by Monsanto and the largest pesticide and junk ...

The European Society of Human Genetics policy committee has chastised Myriad Genetics for refusing to share its patented genetic database ...

The prospect of using gene therapy to treat diseases—particularly inherited diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis that ...

Advertising for frozen egg banks has recently kicked into high gear. The spread of large frozen egg banks also see ...

As genetic tests become increasingly cheaper, the temptation to take one, principally to find out what illnesses we may be ...

The company that makes the world's biggest-selling gene test for breast and ovarian cancers is refusing to share groundbreaking knowledge ...

Technology is a democratizing force, but a digital start-up here in Israel is taking democracy to a new limit; in ...

The difficulty in discussing what everyone intuitively knows—males and females are genetically programmed to respond differently, emotionally and intellectually, to ...

A promising stem-cell-based approach for treating infertility has been successfully demonstrated in non-human primates, as reported in a study published ...

CGS, a "progressive" but uber conservative-minded advocacy group that opposes many medical technology innovations is continuing its campaign against gene ...

There is no reason why the complex information processing at the core of human experience -- consciousness, the mind -- ...

Evolution, often perceived as a series of random changes, might in fact be driven by a simple and repeated genetic ...

A study recently published in PLOS one (Catechol-O-Methyltransferase val158met Polymorphism Predicts Placebo Effect in Irritable Bowel Syndrome) purports to have ...

DNA provides the operating instructions for our cells that influence everything from a person’s hair color to susceptibility to disease ...

A law professor believes genetic profiling should be used to identify children who are predisposed to violent criminal behaviors. Law ...

CNN has been widely ridiculed this week for posting and quickly taking down a story about new research regarding how ...

Severe spermatogenic failure (SSF) is a genetic condition that causes low sperm count and infertility. New insights into the genetic ...

Explosive advancement in human genome sequencing opens new possibilities for identifying the genetic roots of certain diseases and finding cures ...

Biologists in Oregon report they've produced early-stage human embryos with genes from three parents, a new method that some day ...

Eugenics was embraced and even promoted by progressives 100 years ago as a tool to make the world a better ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new type of gene therapy that would – in principle – allow mothers to avoid saddling ...

Aspirin therapy can extend the life of colorectal cancer patients whose tumors carry a mutation in a key gene, but ...

Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid ...

Efforts to develop a working gene therapy for certain inherited diseases have reached a milestone with a new method for ...

Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine and inject it at home, contagion averted ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have replaced bits of defective DNA in a human egg with the equivalent ...

As we highlighted this week in Gene-ius, a dramatic, life-improving breakthrough is on the horizon in gene therapy. Researchers from ...