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Heart Rate: What’s Normal?
The “normal” number of heartbeats per minute is very much a frequently asked question. People, especially medical people, like well-defined lows and highs. Parameters which can be assigned an ‘L’ or...
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Culinary Metaphor Used To Understand Gene-Environment Interactions
A recent article in the Archives of General Psychiatry by Hallmayer et al. discussed the role of genetic and environmental factors in autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The study was a...
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Personal Genomic Tests: Do We Know Enough For Them To Be Beneficial?
Campaigns against public spitting in the 19th century were largely driven by concerns about the spread of tuberculosis. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, spitting seems to be making a...
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Progress In The Field Of Personalized Medicine And What We Can Expect Next
The third edition of The Case for Personalized Medicine (PDF) was released a week ago and I had a chance to do an interview with Edward Abrahams, Ph.D. of the Personalized Medicine Coalition. The new...
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Developing Priorities In The Field Of Genomics And Public Health
In June 2011, the CDC Office of Public Health Genomics launched a community wide consultation process to develop priorities for the field of public health genomics in the next 5 years. This process was...
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Study Explores New Method Of Fluorescing Cancer Cells In Tumors
Two months ago we reported on the first ovarian cancer surgeries performed with fluorescence guidance. As described in the Nature Medicine paper, the international team of researchers from The...
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Video Game Provides Framework For Solving Genomic Sequence Alignment Problems
Over the past year our genetic understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes and cancer has been accelerated by thousands of video gamers thanks to an online flash game called Phylo. Phylo...
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Study Suggests The Importance Of Maintaining A Low Resting Heart Rate
When you sit quietly, your heart slips into the slower, steady pace known as your resting heart rate. A new study suggests that an increase in this rate over time may be a signal of heart trouble...
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Researchers Identify Faulty Gene Associated With Ovarian Cancer Development
British researchers identified a faulty gene associated with a one-in-11 chance of developing ovarian cancer, and they think drugs for breast cancer might also work in these women. Researchers from...
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Could Glowing Cats Be The Key To Finding A Cure For HIV?
Scientists have added a new species to the menagerie of animals that glow, after introducing jellyfish genes into cats that can now glow green. Scientists report that they transferred genes from...
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