Alexandra Ossola
Debating pros and cons of gene drives to control disease-carrying insects and other pests
British biotech company Oxitec plans to kick off a months-long experiment in which it will release billions of Aedes aegypti ...
Gene drive technology to reduce threat of disease-carrying mosquitoes works in trials — but larger rollout hinges on regulators and anti-biotechnology activists
The mosquitoes are coming—and then, hopefully, they’re going. [Soon], British biotech company Oxitec plans to kick off a months-long experiment ...
Food Evolution director: Organic, natural food industries use misinformation and fear to sell products
You’ve probably heard the same conversation, in one way or another, for years: Some say genetically modified organisms (GMO) are ...
FDA’s new stem cell guidelines receive both praise and criticism
The [FDA's] new guidelines...clarify existing regulation by outlining what uses of human tissue can be offered to patients without FDA ...
CRISPR corn: Dupont’s non-transgenic drought-tolerant gene edited corn could be on sale soon
[R]esearchers at DuPont Pioneer. . . have published a study about a strain of corn engineered with CRISPR to be ...
Genetics changing how we define cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cancer is still one ...
Artificial sperm on horizon? Scientists reprogram human skin cells into sperm parent cells
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the 10 to ...
Hormone imbalance may explain some skin conditions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As far back as ...
Artificial intelligence proves its use in cancer diagnosis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Identifying cancer based on ...
Scientists search for disease resistance genes to improve treatments
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past few ...
New brain scanner detects neural magnetic field
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Measuring the activity of ...
Penis transplant, US first, to be performed on wounded veteran
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Soldiers give up a ...
Are homeopathy, alternative medicine losing steam with consumers?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Homeopathy, the form of ...
Gene analysis reveals possible biologic cause of schizophrenia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Schizophrenia can present itself ...
More evidence uncovered for transmissible Alzheimer’s theory
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A post-mortem analysis of ...
Plant DNA ‘tags’ might put an end to counterfeit drugs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the U.S. it’s ...
Biohackers aim to turn bacteria into tiny insulin-making machines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 370 million people ...
Artificial cells may show how earliest life forms came to be
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have a pretty ...
Improved cancer drug hides out in patient’s own blood cells
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s notoriously difficult to ...
Google initiative turning eye towards brain science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After 13 years as ...
Is knowing what’s in your genome always a good thing?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, a panel of ...
Throat bacteria show possible link between schizophrenia and microbiome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. No one is quite ...
Biohackers have hands on CRISPR, but mostly to make beer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The advent of enzyme ...
Natural genetic mutations inspire promising bio-pharmaceutical treatments
Steven Pete can’t feel pain. Timothy Dreyer has bones several times thicker than the average human. Both conditions were caused ...
As dengue fever victims in Brazil tops 16 million, GM mosquito trial offers hope
Dengue fever is so excruciating that it is often called the “bone breaker,” causing severe pain in the joints and ...
Your brain interprets the world differently from everyone else’s
Sometimes, other people interpret your words differently than you may have intended--like you're not on the same wavelength. Turns out ...
How DNA testing transformed matchmaking in Orthodox Jewish community
In 1983, the wife of ultra-orthodox Brooklyn rabbi Yosef Eckstein, gave birth to their fifth child. But the couple’s happiness ...