New York Times
Myriad Genetics ends feud over breast cancer screening patent
Myriad Genetics has essentially given up trying to stop other companies from offering tests for increased risk of breast cancer, ...
Bipartisan support found for US personalized medicine initiative
President Obama will seek hundreds of millions of dollars for a new initiative to develop medical treatments tailored to genetic ...
Disneyland measles outbreak grows as calls for vaccination intensify
A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland is spreading across California and beyond, prompting health officials to move aggressively to contain ...
Mapping out the human brain with crowdsourced intelligence and online gaming
In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D ...
Study reveals clues as to why the common cold virus is so effective
If there is a champion among contagions, it may well be the lowly rhinovirus, responsible for many of the coughs ...
Unexplained paralysis in children after enterovirus outbreak has experts puzzled
A nationwide outbreak of a respiratory virus last fall sent droves of children to emergency departments. The infections have now ...
As cases decline, experts stress urgency of Ebola vaccine clinical trials in West Africa
As authorities and drug companies hurriedly prepare to begin testing Ebola vaccines in West Africa, they are starting to contemplate ...
“Green” neuroscience scientists say time to revise research protocols
Ann Lam delicately places a laboratory slide holding a slice of brain from a living human onto a small platform ...
Will gene editing and other new GM techniques sidestep controversy over ‘foreign’ genes?
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is developing genetically modified grass that would need less mowing, be a deeper green and be resistant to ...
New method for clearing donated blood of viruses gains FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first system that could be used by blood banks to destroy ...
Would genetically modified salmon be considered kosher?
Many of us in this era of ecologically motivated dietary restrictions find ourselves editing our menu choices, but I wondered ...
Women’s colleges considering policy changes that redefine ‘gender’
At an elite college for women, the question arises: What does it mean to be a woman? The president of ...
Targeting children based on genetics would do more harm than good
In “The Downside of Resilience” (Sunday Review, Nov. 30), Jay Belsky points to evidence that certain children are genetically predisposed ...
Climate change, tourism threaten species conservation in Galápagos Islands
Unesco calls the Galápagos Islands a “living museum and showcase of evolution,” but they are much more than that. The ...
Massive genetics research facility tackles Ebola
An old two-story brick building in a shabby part of town, formerly a distribution center for Budweiser beer, is now ...
Prostate screenings may lead to cancer-causing therapy
In 1970 I discovered the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, which is now the most widely used tool in prostate screenings ...
Applying neuroscience to poverty may do more harm than good
The idea that poverty can change the brain has gotten significant attention recently, and not just from those lay readers ...
Sometimes, viruses make us healthy
When we talk about viruses, usually we focus on the suffering caused by Ebola, influenza and the like. But our ...
Evolution explains infanticide among mammals
In the early 1970s, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, then a graduate student at Harvard, traveled to India to study Hanuman langurs, ...
Food Babe: Calling food “natural” can fool consumers
A litany of class-action lawsuits have been waged against products marketed as "natural" that contain G.M.O.'s — including Goldfish crackers, ...
What brain science has and has not revealed, so far
Research on the brain is surging. The United States and the European Union have launched new programs to better understand ...
Dangers of over-diagnosing a disease
Historically, the science of epidemiology was directed toward identifying and controlling epidemics of infectious disease. In a study just published ...
Mothers’ breast milk transfers important signals to baby
Milk is not just food. The more closely scientists examine it, the more complexity they find. Along with nutrients like ...
Fossil unveils new mammalian lineage
Four years ago, while searching for fish fossils on Madagascar, paleontologists came upon what proved to be a well-preserved cranium ...
Can the genetic techniques that turned corn into a staple transform the homely cassava?
Bill Gates spends a lot of his time probing the minds and work of researchers and analysts trying to solve ...
General Mills’ Cascadian Farm launches ‘bee-friendly’ campaign, GMO critics unimpressed
Alarm has grown in recent years over the widespread loss of bee colonies, not just because of the canary-in-the-coal-mine implications ...
Evolutionary incubators turn invasive species into ecological nightmares
Invasive species are both a fact of life and a scientific puzzle. Humans transport animals and plants thousands of miles from ...
‘Alzheimer’s in a Dish’—human brain cells in gel—opens new avenues for research
For the first time, and to the astonishment of many of their colleagues, researchers created what they call Alzheimer’s in ...
