New York Times
Bringing us closer to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ hemophilia treatment with experimental gene therapies
Scientists are edging closer to defeating a longtime enemy of human health: hemophilia, the inability to form blood clots. After ...
DNA links Nevada inmate to 34-year-old unsolved murders in Colorado
The murders were as inexplicable as they were gruesome: separate killings six days apart in 1984 near Denver that claimed ...
Genetic crystal ball? Forecasting 5 serious diseases with algorithm that checks 6.6 million DNA spots
Scientists have created a powerful new tool to calculate a person’s inherited risks for heart disease, breast cancer and three ...
Viewpoint: How organic activists use intimidation and character assassination to attack GMOs
In Part 1, I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...
Why you may need a second, or even third, opinion on your genetic test results
[Radiology resident Joshua Clayton] sent a sample of his saliva to 23andMe, the genetic testing company. His report was pretty ...
‘Astonished and appalled’: World Health officials shocked by US opposition to breast feeding resolution
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who ...
Precision medicine and cancer: More than just ‘mutant-hunting’
In many of our genome-obsessed minds, the problem of cancer had become reduced to a rather simple, scalable algorithm: find ...
Why don’t men have longer, healthier lives? Blame it on the Y chromosome
New evidence indicates that the Y chromosome participates in an array of essential, general-interest tasks in men, like stanching cancerous ...
Treating alpha thalassemia major with prenatal blood transfusions, bone marrow transplant
In the three months before she was even born, Elianna Constantino received five blood transfusions and a bone-marrow transplant. All ...
Why can your DNA vary from cell to cell? Mosaicism is a ‘hidden mix of mutations’
James Priest couldn’t make sense of it. He was examining the DNA of a desperately ill baby, searching for a ...
Bridging the ‘gulf between patients and researchers’ in cancer treatment
When my cancer support group visited a research lab, the discussion of proteomics, fibroblasts and microRNAs made about as much ...
Is the nucleolus the key to stopping cellular aging?
Under a microscope, it’s hard to miss. Take just about any cell, find the nucleus, then look inside it for ...
The infamous life and death of biohacker Aaron Traywick
In the span of two years, Aaron Traywick, who was 28 when he died, went from a virtual unknown to ...
Consumer DNA tests: Answering questions ‘we didn’t even know we had’
23andMe is among a crop of new services that have arrived to help us mine our genetic material for answers ...
Immunotherapy as a last resort for terminal cancer patients
Dr. Oliver Sartor has a provocative question for patients who are running out of time. Most are dying of prostate ...
Close to home: Biologist was studying gene now linked to daughter’s rare illness
By the time her mother received the doctor’s email, Yuna Lee was already 2 years old, a child with a ...
Menopause may put women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s
[W]e are only beginning to understand is why women are more susceptible [to Alzheimer's]. What factors differentiate women from men, ...
The rove beetle may help us ‘answer questions about evolution’ other insects can’t
It is rare that a new organism is introduced as a model for study in biology, but Dr. [Joseph] Parker ...
Viewpoint: Time to reassess Nazi Hans Asperger’s role in study of autism
I have spent the past seven years researching the Nazi past of Dr. Hans Asperger. Asperger is credited with shaping ...
Viewpoint: ‘Race’ may be a social construct, but denying ancestral-based group genetic differences is ‘indefensible’
With the help of [advances in DNA sequencing], we are learning that while race may be a social construct, differences ...
‘All of Us’: NIH biobank set to collect genomes of 1 million people to address chronic diseases
This spring, the National Institutes of Health will start recruiting participants for one of the most ambitious medical projects ever ...
Conservation steward challenge: Which endangered species should we intervene to save?
[O]ur role as stewards of the earth is becoming more and more like that of doctors in a global intensive-care ...
Podcast: NY Times reports glyphosate in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. What’s the science?
Biologist David Oppenheimer, nutritionist Shelley McGuire: Pro-organic group's glyphosate analysis no substitute for peer-reviewed science ...
Herbicide-tainted Ben & Jerry’s ice cream? NY Times falls for anti-science group’s dubious attack on glyphosate
The Organic Consumers Association uses junk science testing organization to claim ice cream contains trace parts-per-billion of glyphosate—at least tens ...
With global gene editing slow down, what’s the future of ‘designer babies?’
The prospect of designer babies--the stuff of futuristic movies--is now upon us with the advent of gene editing, stirring confusion ...
Will Hollywood anti-GMO/pro-labeling activists Lena Dunham and Gwyneth Paltrow consider science?
Human geneticist who now opposes mandatory GMO labeling appeals to actresses to engage independent university scientists and not just ideologues ...
“Home brewed morphine” from genetically engineered yeast? What did the media get wrong?
Researchers report creating genetically engineered yeast strains that take us one step closer to producing opiates using microbes. How did ...
