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Apple's plan to harvest customers' DNA could revolutionise medical research...
Apple is "collaborating" with scientists to help collect customers DNA for use in medical research, the MIT Technology Review reports — a move that could have massive implications for genetic...
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Prosecutors around the US are relying on shady science — and it's a 'mass...
For the past 15 years, crime investigators have employed a type of sophisticated DNA testing to determine the source of genetic material, such as hair or skin, recovered at a crime scene.That testing...
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Scientists finally figured out why you rarely get sick in the summer
Ever wonder where colds get their name? Or why we're all coughs and sniffles during the winter but are rarely sick in the summer?Turns out our genes change with the seasons, just like the...
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Scientists have discovered an incredibly easy way to make morphine, but it...
Last fall, two scientists reached out to tech policy expert Kenneth Oye and his colleagues for some advice.The scientists had elucidated nearly every step to a pathway that would end in the use of...
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I sequenced my DNA at a community lab in Brooklyn — and what I learned...
If you've ever gargled with mouthwash, felt a canker sore with your finger, or rubbed the inside of your mouth with the tip of your tongue, you've played with the raw material you need to hack your...
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A company is using people's DNA to shame them for littering
A Virginia-based genetics technology company and a Hong Kong ad agency are using the DNA people leave behind on their litter to print computer-generated images of their faces on wanted posters.The...
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The ambitious plan behind Obama's $215 million program to transform medicine
The Precision Medicine Initiative, announced by President Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address, is an incredibly ambitious project. Obama has called for $215 million from the 2016 budget to...
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This customer had a brilliant reaction to a Chili's waiter who spit in his drink
A Chili's customer had a brilliant response to waiter who spit in his beverage, ABC News reports.Ken Yerdon told ABC News that he suspected his drink had been tainted after his wife complained about...
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Amazon and Google want to get your DNA into the cloud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a...
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A revolutionary blood test shows you all the viruses you've ever been exposed to
Imagine walking into a doctor's office, getting tested for all the viruses you've ever encountered in your whole life, and getting your results before you left. This would be game-changing for nipping...
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An insightful warning about the many unforeseen disasters technology might...
The following passage comes from "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control" by Wendell Wallach. SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISES, environmental...
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The future of data storage is in tiny strings of molecules 60,000 times...
Researchers at France's Institut Charles Sadron and Aix-Marseille Universite have built binary data into a strand of synthetic polymer, a minuscule chain of chemical information about 60,000 times...
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Science just settled a decades-long fight over this 8,500-year-old man
The relatives of a much-debated 8,500-year-old skeleton found in Kennewick, Washington, have been pinned down: The middle-age man was most closely related to modern-day Native Americans, DNA from his...
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If you skipped class in high school, you may be destined for the corner office
To get ahead, you want to play by the rules — to an extent.But new research suggests that people who were moderate rule-breakers as teenagers — we're talking about skipping class or breaking curfew,...
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Designer babies will just be a logical continuation of the way we've long...
Depending on your perspective, tinkering with genes to make so-called designer babies is a dream — or a nightmare.With a couple tweaks to the genome, certain diseases, even ones that aren't genetic...
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We've already started down what may be a 'slippery slope' leading to designer...
Celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West might not have simply wished for a boy when they found out they were expecting their second child — some sources claim the couple chose their baby's sex...
View ArticleScientists have almost discovered how to resurrect a woolly mammoth
Researchers at the University of Chicago have identified many of the genes that are unique to the woolly mammoth and not shared with its closest relative — the Asian elephant. This information puts...
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Genetic testing is taking medicine to an all new extreme
Preventing disease is a standard goal of medicine.But a new technology takes it farther than we normally do by preventing a potential person with a genetic disease from being born at all, George Annas,...
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A new test aims to eliminate the risk of having a baby with a rare genetic...
Anne Morriss got pregnant with her first child using donated sperm. But while she couldn't have been happier to have a child, her baby was born with a rare genetic disease. If she didn't feed her son...
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11 scientists who are transforming how we treat disease, see the brain, and...
Mind-boggling advances in biology and medicine are being made everyday by brilliant scientists around the world.From improving our understanding of everything from the human brain to the trillions of...
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