The Truith About Over Eating

Can we blame our genetics for overeating?

Ben Locwin | 
Are eating habits a matter of choice and discipline? What role do our genetics play in determining how much and ...
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Can we reduce schizophrenia risk with prenatal supplements?

Ben Locwin | 
Schizophrenia has a clear genetic basis, but genes don't tell the whole story. The other factors that determine whether or ...
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Mapping autism’s genetic origins through massive analysis offers new research tool

Nicholette Zeliadt | 
The largest genetic analysis of postmortem brain tissue to date has yielded maps of when and where genes are turned ...
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Can consumer genetic tests actually make us healthier?

Kristen Hovet | 
“I believe genetic testing saved my life,” says Kim Horner, author of “Probably Someday Cancer." ...
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Genetics of socialization revealed through study of rare Williams Syndrome

Yewande Pearse | 
One of the things that makes us human is how we socialize with one another. What drives our social behavior ...
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Protein therapy in the womb overrides genetic glitch hampering teeth development, ability to sweat

Ricki Lewis | 
Imagine a fetus gulping in amniotic fluid and drinking a drug that restores the ability to form teeth, sweat glands ...
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There’s a reason you have trouble thinking and remembering when hunger sets in

Ben Locwin | 
Why is it so hard to think while you're hungry? Researchers now believe it may come down to one protein ...
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‘Rape gene’? Law and Order SVU episode muddies genetic literacy waters

Ricki Lewis | 
A popular television show delivers a questionable message on genetic determinism and the the issue of why some men resort ...
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Synthetic biologists developing cells programmed to target, destroy cancer

Ben Locwin | 
Synthetic biology might be ready to graduate from cells engineered to perform only one task to multiple cells in a ...
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Beyond microcephaly: Can Zika virus cause auto-immune disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome?

Ben Locwin | 
Much of the discussion about the Zika virus has been about its ability to cause microcephaly. But now evidence has ...
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Genes identified that extend life

Ben Locwin | 
Is the secret to extending human life span written in our genes? Clues from other organisms suggest it might be ...
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Why is your memory so bad when you’re hungry?

Ben Locwin | 
Why is it so hard to think while you're hungry? Researchers now believe it may come down to one protein ...
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Gene therapy is doing all that we’d hoped for* *(so far)

Ben Locwin | 
New gene therapies are showing evidence of advancing our treatment of genetic diseases. Scientists are 5 years along the 15 ...
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Designer viruses and precision medicine: New findings for the future of gene therapies

Ben Locwin | 
Precision and personalized medicine have at their heart the promise of targeting diseases with specialized therapies specific to certain types ...
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