The most revealing and important line in Angelina Jolie’s OpEd in the New York Times today is not the one in which she reveals she has had her breasts removed […]
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A medical researcher at Imperial College London has created a smart knife which can tell doctors within three seconds if a group of tissue is cancerous or not, making biopsies possible during operations.
Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Myriad Genetics Inc. did not invent anything when it isolated two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.
The Supreme Court has ruled against a Utah-based genetic testing company in a decision which defines the legal limits of ownership over the building blocks of life.
I learned about last week’s fire in Seaside Park through a conspiracy theory. It read simply: ‘And I’m sure this was an accident.’ Given Jersey’s long history of questionable accidents—just […]
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
We’re in the midst of a muddle about how to understand the nature of patenting genes.
In the future, we will hack our genetic code as easily as we hack computer code. Bio-hackers will become more powerful than cyber-hackers: armed with computers and samples of DNA, they […]
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
I really do believe that America has this weight problem, obesity issues and we have all these diseases that we get, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
Scientists have located the specific brain region involved in the spread of ideas. Called the temporoparietal junction, it could help clarify why some ideas fall flat while others go viral.
First there was strongly-worded text, and then there were gruesome pictures. Now, Stirling University researchers have developed a cigarette pack that plays an audio clip when opened.
It’s been a bad few weeks for RadioPhobia, the powerful fear of radiation that far exceeds the actual risk. From three different places come new examples of this version […]
Scientists in South Korea have developed a highly-responsive sensor that can identify compounds found on a person’s breath signaling the presence of diabetes or lung cancer.
Awareness has become obliviousness. And that obliviousness is a result of neatly repeated, ideas that early detection equals survivorship, and a whole lot of women voluntarily losing their breasts.
I feel this tendency to come up with an evolutionary explanation for basically everything under the sun is not needed.
Perhaps the most obstructing barrier to treating neurological conditions is quite literally a barrier.
“I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive,” the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. “But I do know that the number of traffic […]
I just read an alarming piece on what the world will look like, possibly soon, when the efficacy of our current arsenal of antibiotics really starts to fade. There […]
Not all vitamins are good for all people, all the time. In fact, some can kill you. And guess what? We know where the bodies are buried.
How are we supposed to communicate about science in an age when political partisanship and media hype dominate the 24/7 news cycle?
I’ve never been pregnant myself, but I know people who have. Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience, but it has its downsides too, like having to feel bad whenever you […]
The afterlife, in the words of Tennyson [1], is “that untravell’d world whose margin fades / For ever and forever when I move”. Death is the ultimate one-way trip, its […]
“Some experts worry that even with genetic counseling, people will over-interpret their test results, concluding that they can skip the sunscreen if they’re at low risk of skin cancer, for instance.”
We’ve all been there. The Internet comment section stares at us, blinking its sexy open space, inviting us to put words all over it, to tell the world why the […]
The poet Christian Wiman has written a careful, probing, and spiritual account of his rare, incurable and unpredictable cancer. His point of view is that of the modern day believer.
To truly help developing societies, we need to answer their immediate needs.
I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book.
Technological innovations can further disrupt retailing by taking aim at the product itself, rather than the point of sale.
Very early in my writing career I was fortunate to be able to spend three hours interviewing Linus Pauling (above), the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel […]