Science Controversies

Biomimicry or biomimetics is the examination of nature for inspiratioin order to solve human problems. The latest wave of biomimicry ...

Over the last few days, several interesting blog posts and pieces have cast doubt on those front-page claims that our ...

Pamela Surkin, an associate professor at the university, led a team of researchers in analyzing data of over 6,000 mothers ...

Gawker published a piece on the neurological problems which might result in pedophilia, and naturally a lot of shock and ...

Being told you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism could make you feel you have less control over your drinking, ...

Poor Lance Armstrong. The seven-time Tour de France winner has been stripped of his famous victories by the United States ...

Gaining more insight into predicting how genes affect physical or behavioral traits by charting the genotype-phenotype map holds promise to ...

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but ...

The recent Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Geneticspatent dispute involving two genes for breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA 1 ...

In the last 5 years, medical geneticists have been conducting studies to examine possible links between DNA and disease on ...

Debbie McCarron was prepared to get both of her breasts taken off if a blood test in December 2006 revealed ...

Not only is Internet addiction a legitimate compulsion, it may have the same genetic component as nicotine addiction, a new ...

A cat named Venus is one of the most famous felines on the planet. The three-year-old torty has her own ...

Hundreds of thousands of new genomic pieces, catalogued for the very first time, are contained in the data, which is ...

The first large and comprehensive study of the genetics of a common lung cancer finds that more than half the ...

Researchers have newly identified three genetic regions associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the most common autoimmune liver disease, increasing ...

Tens of thousands of Americans with tumors from certain types of lung cancer have mutations that might be treated by ...

Not only have great strides been made in human genetics but also in animal genetics. This is important because such ...

The discovery of a 'switch' that modifies a gene known to be essential for normal heart development could explain variations ...

The skin, which is an essential barrier that protects our body against the external environment, undergoes constant turnover throughout life ...

New hope was raised yesterday for people left paralyzed by injury, after doctors said they had succeeded in using stem ...

As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital celebrates its 50th anniversary and marks September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, investigators are ...

The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once ...

Science moves fast these days, and remarkable tools for human enhancement seem to emerge frenetically. Society often questions the way ...

The GENCODE Consortium expects the human genome has twice as many genes than previously thought, many of which might have ...

With the ability to sequence human genes comes an onslaught of raw material about the genetic characteristics that distinguish us, ...

In a milestone for the understanding of human genetics, scientists just announced the results of five years of work in ...