Science Controversies

As everyone knows, smoking kills. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking can lead to cancer, ...

There has been an alarming rise in the number of obese people in the last few decades and the epidemic ...

Mothers who eat fatty foods while pregnant may increase the risk of breast cancer among their daughters and granddaughters ...

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 ...

The Maasai are a very special people who live primarily from farming and livestock activities in Kenya and Tanzania. They ...

Australian scientists have developed a genetic test to predict autism spectrum disorder in children, which could provide a long-sought way ...

Most of you are now drawing the same conclusion that I used to draw. “Dammit, I am the doctor and ...

Debate.org provides a platform for individual's to voice their opinion on the bioethics surrounding human cloning ...

A study coordinated by Manel Esteller, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, highlights the success of this area of research to ...

Scientists have had a hunch for some time that cilantro hating might be partly inherited. But now a genetic survey ...

Since Yorktown Technologies first sold its genetically modified pet — the GloFish — in 2003, the fluorescent fish, an altered ...

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 ...

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

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 ...