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First plaintiff, nearing death, goes to court in case claiming Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup causes cancer
On bad days, Dewayne Johnson is too crippled to speak. Lesions often cover as much as 80% of his body ...
Are we closer to finding life on Mars?
Organic matter has been found on Mars in soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater by ...
Woman survives removal of 132-pound ovarian tumor
A 132-pound ovarian tumor was removed from a 38-year-old Connecticut woman this year, according to two doctors involved in the ...
Golf legend Jack Nicklaus tries experimental stem cell therapy for ‘debilitating’ back pain
For much of his professional golf career [Jack] Nicklaus has had aggravating back pain that he describes as an eight ...
Transhumanist super athletes: CRISPR and ‘gene doping’ therapy poised to roil sports
[In the 1990s], gene therapy -- defined as the technique of using and manipulating genes in order to treat or ...
Autistic children and their siblings less likely to be vaccinated
Children with autism spectrum disorder are significantly less likely to be fully vaccinated than children unaffected by autism, new research ...
House ‘right to try’ law passes, sent to Senate: What it could mean for fragile patients
The US House of Representatives passed a federal "right-to-try" bill [March 21], leaving many Americans wondering what the move could ...
Coffee causes cancer? That may be California’s next required food warning label
California coffee shops may soon be forced to warn customers about a possible cancer risk linked to their morning jolt ...
Mystery ‘cocoliztli’ epidemic that wiped out the Aztecs may have been caused by salmonella
In the 16th century, an epidemic known as "cocoliztli" that caused bleeding and vomiting swept through large areas of Guatemala, ...
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue: We have a duty to farmers to harness safe crop biotechnology
Editor's note: Sonny Perdue is the US Secretary of Agriculture. He is a former farmer, agribusinessman, veterinarian, state legislator, and ...
Dog DNA could be man’s best friend: Clone of gene-edited dog aids human heart disease research
With his black, brown and white fur, Longlong looks like most beagles. But the puppy has been sick with a ...
After 60 years, best friends find out they’re biological half-brothers
Seventy-four-year-old Walter Macfarlane and 72-year-old Alan Robinson have been friends for more than 60 years. Born in Honolulu, they first ...
Ex-NFL player first living person diagnosed with CTE
Researchers published, what they say is the first case of a living person identified with the degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic ...
Brain autopsy of murderer Aaron Hernandez shows severe CTE damage
For the first time since announcing former NFL star Aaron Hernandez's CTE diagnosis in September, Boston University neuropathologist Dr. Ann ...
Growing cancer drugs in chicken eggs could lower costs by 90%
Researchers in Japan may have found a way to produce cheaper drugs that could be used to treat a range ...
Analyzing Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s brain might illuminate ‘psychopathy’
It's easy to chalk up [Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen] Paddock's horrific actions simply to "evil," as politicians and media ...
Blood clot risk, other health problems, may increase with height
Height can be an independent predictor of your risk for venous thromboembolism, or VTE, also known as blood clots, according to ...
Are cardiac stem cells a ‘fountain of youth’?
Cardiac stem cells derived from young hearts helped reverse the signs of aging when directly injected into the old hearts ...
Not finishing antibiotics prescription unlikely to fuel antibiotic resistance
The standing argument that failing to complete a course of antibiotics could fuel the rise of antibiotic resistance has little ...
‘Ebola of plants’: Can gene sequencing save tropical food staple cassava from whitefly-borne virus?
Almost a billion people around the world rely on cassava as a staple food. The root vegetable is a versatile ...
Coffee and health: Could drinking more increase our lifespan?
Greater consumption of coffee could lead to a longer life, according to two new studies... The findings have resurfaced the ...
STDs getting ‘smarter’? Gonorrhea may become impossible to treat with antibiotics
Gonorrhea is becoming harder and in some cases impossible to treat with antibiotics, the World Health Organization said. "The bacteria ...
Darwin’s mystery animal: Camel-like creature linked to ancient horses finally added to tree of life
After the last of its kind died out about 12,000 years ago, a strange animal that stumped Charles Darwin is ...
Americans pay less attention to ‘organic’ and ‘GMO’ in weighing food health benefits, survey finds
Determining what exactly is a "healthy" food has us all scratching our heads. A new survey suggests that most Americans ...
Plaintiffs suing Monsanto over alleged carcinogenicity of herbicide glyphosate say EPA colluded with company
For 12 years, [Christine] Sheppard had no idea what might have caused her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -- until a group of ...
Pro-Trump farmers worry they’ll lose lucrative GMO corn exports to Mexico if president rolls back NAFTA
[Editor's note: Mexico imported $2.3 billion of US corn in 2015, almost all of it genetically modified, according to the ...
Umbilical cord stem cells may yield treatment for autism
Gracie [Gregory] was one of 25 children who took part in the first-of-its-kind study at Duke University in Durham, North ...
Brain, ovarian cancers linked to new gene mutations in two studies
Genetic changes and variants linked to the development of brain and ovarian cancers have been discovered in two new studies ...
