Researchers may have discovered a genetic equivalent of the Fountain of Youth hidden in the DNA of centenarians. Only 1 in 6,000 people reaches the century mark and just 1 in 7 million lives to be a supercentenarian (someone who…
Equinome, a company founded on research conducted at University College Dublin, just announced their new test to predict how horses will perform for racing. Testing will cost 1000 Euros per horse tested. Equinome’s test looks at the gene responsible for…
Reported in the December issue of Molecular Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research; researchers at the University of Florida have been able to just use a fraction of the normal dosage of a highly toxic,…
In a study published on September 2nd in HealthDay News the question of why some people are more likely to become addicted to opioid painkillers (like morphine, codeine or oxycodone) has now been partially unraveled by the Geisinger Health System…
I just came across an article distributed by the Slate discussing the above topic. This brought my thinking to the use of DNA and the idea of anonymity in general. DNA testing makes them easy to trace By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt…
A blood test that can determine the gender and genetic abnormalities in a unborn baby as early as five weeks has proven to be successful according to Dutch researchers. The researchers claim that the test has almost 100 per cent…
For years, pregnant and nursing women have been warned to limit the amount of fish they eat. This is because many marine species may contain high levels of mercury, which endangers development in newborns and fetuses. Recently, National Healthy Mothers,…
Classic autism strikes boys four times more often than girls, with the inclusion of milder variations (Asperger syndrome) boys are ten times more likely than girls to be diagnosed. UCLA Scientists link genetic variant to autism risk. This discovery may…
Scientist are now saying that, Humans may have originally caught malaria from gorillas. This is based on research that examined malaria parasites in great ape feces. It was originally thought that the human malaria parasite split off from a chimpanzee parasite when humans and…
