Science Controversies

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 -- ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When Anne Wojcicki’s son was a baby, she ran a swab across the inside of his cheek, collecting DNA to ...

Despite the misgivings that many people have surrounding cow’s milk, it is a good source of nutrients such as calcium ...

Both eugenics and social Darwinism had their moments in their sun, the optimistic goal of progressive techno-elites 100 years ago ...

The claim that nanopore technology is on the verge of making DNA analysis so fast and cheap that a person's ...

There has been a lot of discussion over recent years about the ways in which genetic testing may help make ...

This article detailed current research about how, although low bone density and osteoporosis is quite prevalent in the public eye, ...

A multi-specialty hospital here has successfully used stem cells to cure a hip joint disorder, relieving affected patients from expensive ...

The H5N1 avian flu virus, which ministers of health propaganda around the world have been using for years to generate ...

A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress ...