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Notorious cancer researcher faked multiple studies, according to government report
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nearly a decade after ...
Police want access to health data from tracking technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In late October, genetic ...
Is it more than water? FDA scrutinizing homeopathic “medicine”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA is taking ...
UK forgoes ban on homeopathy in psychiatric medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Theresa May has announced ...
Man’s unborn twin became genetic father of his child: Here’s how
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How can a man ...
GMO satire broadcast raises questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Vern Blazek Science ...
HIV gene therapy in development, with boost from Bill Gates
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a bid to ...
Santa Cruz biotech company under fire for severe animal mistreatment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A hidden barn. A ...
UN report declares surgeries on intersex babies human rights violation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United Nations recently convened ...
Marco Rubio supports research on fetal tissue, just not from abortions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Marco Rubio says while ...
Did pharmaceutical company exploit feminism to get ‘female Viagra’ government approval?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Addyi, a drug that ...
Scientists, fearing safety, silent as Planned Parenthood attacked for sale of fetal issue
In recent weeks, it’s been nearly impossible not to hear people — presidential candidates, attorneys general, lawmakers, pundits, outraged relatives ...
Should doctors have authority to decide gender of intersex babies?
Roughly one in every 2,000 babies in the U.S. are born with a range of traits that fall somewhere along the ...
Are too many newborns receiving costly, unnecessary intensive care?
More and more newborns are going to the neonatal intensive care unit. Between 2007 and 2012, NICU admission rates in ...
Computer program hijacks 23andMe data, raises genetic discrimination concerns
23andMe bills itself as a company that "democratizes personal genetics" for the world. And that description's not necessarily all that ...
Does research on vaccines and biochemical warfare justify primate suffering?
They are the unsung heroes of the war on terror — or its hidden innocent victims, depending on your point ...
iPhone app employed to study specific health needs of LGBT community
We don't know as much as we'd like about the role sexual orientation and gender identity play in health and ...
Is anti-biotech mandatory labeling lobby now acknowledging GMOs are safe?
Two competing federal bills are working their way through Congress that would override the mishmash of state-by-state GMO labeling laws. One of ...
Has the Age of Genomics been oversold?
We live in an age of hype. But the overselling of the Age of Genomics — the hype about the ...
Has Big Genomics lived up to its hype?
“Success in sight: The eyes have it!” Thus the scientific journal Gene Therapy greeted the news, in 2008, that an experimental treatment was restoring ...
International gathering of scientists, ethicists seeks to set standards for future of biotech
Roughly 135 scientists, bioethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers from 25 countries wrapped up the first-ever global summit to carve out ...
Do we have the answer to the origin of life?
There's a problem at the heart of biology. It is: No one knows why all complex life is so similar ...
In a blind taste test, organic or conventional, can you tell the difference?
Can YOU tell the difference? ...
We need to reevaluate how we define depression
In the wake of the Germanwings tragedy, mental health advocates are deeply concerned about misleading generalizations that may increase the ...
Is Facebook overstepping privacy boundaries with DNA testing app?
A new medical research study aims to screen the genes of at least 20,000 people. Part of a surging tide ...
23andMe on The Dress: Genes don’t settle debate, but age might
In the latest twist in #TheDress, a survey by DNA-testing company 23andMe suggests that genes don’t play an obvious role ...
Could genetically modified yeast replace flowers in fragrances?
For centuries, humans have used yeast to make beer and bread. Now, a startup is using it to engineer designer ...
For some pregnant women, prenatal genetic test results in cancer diagnosis
MaterniT21 PLUS was the first noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) to hit the market, in October 2011, and Sequenom has sold ...