Daniel Cressey
What’s next in the long, heated battle over bees and neonicotinoid insecticides?
[S]tudies showing real-world evidence of harm from pesticides in the field have been mounting — and environmental organizations have demanded ...
Chemistry Nobel awarded for DNA self-repair mechanisms discovery
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2015 Nobel Prize ...
UK scientists apply for first-ever human embryo gene editing license
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists in London have ...
Nature: IARC glyphosate cancer classification linked to animal studies, no evidence of human threat
The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is ...
EU GM crops in limbo for years likely to move forward with compromise in hand
Agreement to permit country-level bans of genetically modified plants should ease deadlocks in EU approval process. After years of political ...
History of penetrative sex reveals unexpected reversal in evolution
The history of sex may have to be rewritten thanks to a group of unsightly, long-extinct fish called placoderms. A ...
Head of UK Rothamsted–‘oldest agriculture science center in the world’–urges more GMO field trials
(Summary) Maurice Moloney, head of UK's Rothamsted Research, the "oldest agriculture science center in the world," speaks to Nature News about his ...
Transgenics: A new breed of crops
The following is an edited excerpt. A whole new generation of GM crops is now making their way from laboratory ...
Genetic ‘kill switch’ eradicates female silkworms for a better crop
The following is an excerpt. The technology used to kill off the female mosquitoes that spread tropical diseases has been ...
Drug-resistant bacteria pose ‘catastrophic threat’
The following is an edited excerpt. The danger of antibiotic resistant bacteria should be placed alongside pandemic influenza and terrorism ...
Stem cells take root in drug development
Stem cells have assumed near-mythical status in the popular imagination as a possible cure for every disease under the sun ...
