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Viewpoint: Genetically modified plants could produce drugs of the future—if we do more to encourage ‘pharming’
Politicians talk a lot about farming but seldom about “pharming,” even though the latter can also have a big impact ...
Can artificial intelligence improve IVF success rates?
In theory, an AI application would be able to pick out the single best embryo to use for IVF to ...
Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
Viewpoint: Psychology association’s new guidelines ‘demonize’ masculinity, ignore biology
In my practice as a psychotherapist , I’ve seen an increase of depression in young men who feel emasculated in ...
‘Body on a chip’ could revolutionize drug research, replace animal testing
Bringing a new drug to market takes roughly a decade and requires expensive and arduous testing on humans and animals. But a ...
What’s the difference between choosing healthy embryos and picking a baby’s eye color?
Blair and James are trying to start a family. Like many parents, they hope their future offspring will be healthy ...
Family DNA disease connection: How my breast cancer diagnosis saved my father from pancreatic cancer
In April 2012, as I prepared to undergo a double mastectomy, it was [my grandma] Gertrud’s face that flashed before ...
Can we afford gene therapy’s million-dollar price tags?
[4-year-old] Caspian was born with a rare, inherited eye disorder called Leber congenital amaurosis, which results in the progressive deterioration ...
Breast cancer is not ‘one size fits all’: Obesity, alcohol use, inactivity exacerbate risk
A regular mammogram isn’t enough to battle breast cancer anymore. Researchers have found that a third of breast cancer cases ...
Are you an expert or novice? Brain scans can tell the difference
To gain new insight into how highly specialized workers learn skills or react to stressful situations, researchers are leveraging advanced ...
Seeking a new path for FDA regulation of revolutionary medical treatments
Researchers are developing therapies that could permanently alter a patient’s genes... . The early results are promising. Patients would live ...
Parents of acutely ill newborns find answers through DNA sequencing
Hope for [children with rare genetic diseases] and their families may be coming in the form of DNA sequencing, or ...
