Dr. Belinda Martineau is the Principal Editor at the UC Davis Genome Center. In an excerpt from the article, Martineau states: “Once scientists have told the truth, warts and all (and genetic…
Excerpt: Colman Chadam, an 11-year-old California boy, has been ordered to transfer from his current school to another one miles away because of his genetic makeup. Now, his parents are…
Our national “obesity epidemic” is spawning disease, shortening life spans and bankrupting our health care system. Or is it? Could our negative attitudes about fatness-a disease that people bring upon…
This article addresses the controversy surrounding an 107-page paper by Oded Galor of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Quamrul Ashraf of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts that is…
Until now, analysis of the environment has been the domain of social scientists, who have elaborated the correlations between environment and health or behaviour — for example, that a deprived…
A new IVF technique being debated in England uses three genetic parents to create an embryo. This procedure helps avoid possible mitochondrial disease, but some caution that it’s too soon…