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Want to sell cell-based meat in Tennessee? You’ll face a million-dollar fine in yet another chapter in the ‘long-running fight over the future of protein’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared his support for banning a food product that barely exists — cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat — ...
Genetic diversity squeeze: Camembert is on the verge of extinction. Here’s what can be done to rescue ‘endangered cheeses’
Each hunk of Camembert or smear of brie is an ecosystem, an assortment of fungi and bacteria that turn milk ...
‘Gastronomic dreams of astronomical proportions’: Collaboration between government and companies key to producing cell-based meat at scale
Creating a technological (and delicious) wonder is one thing; scaling it to feed billions of people is another ...
Tiger steaks and lion burgers? Cell-cultivated exotic meats open new market possibilities but raise controversial questions
Which animals we find acceptable to eat vary from person to person, according to our values, palates, and upbringing ...
Two malaria vaccines are now being distributed in Africa. Here are the hurdles plaguing the lifesaving drugs
Malaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough ...
Viewpoint: Yes, we have a national mental health crisis. No, it’s not a significant driver of gun violence as Republicans claim
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants more mental health resources after the Allen mall mass shooting. It’s not a real solution ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale’
Going back nearly 80 years, anxieties over food security have driven the tiny Netherlands to become a global leader in agriculture despite ...
‘No conservation concern with honey bees’: Xerces Society debunks claims that honey bees threatened but raises extinction concerns about some wild species
Around 2006, beekeepers started reporting huge losses of honey bee colonies. “That rang alarm bells,” said James Cane, a bee ...
The air in our homes is making us sick. Here’s what we can do about it
The technology and the human knowledge necessary to improve indoor air exist. But despite decades’ worth of science linking dirty ...
Inside America’s STI crisis: 40% of pregnant mothers with syphilis lose their child, and the numbers are growing exponentially
Across the board, sexually transmitted infections are on a “shocking” upward trajectory, according to public health experts. Preliminary data from ...
This ‘morning-after pill’ can prevent sexually transmitted infections. Why aren’t more doctors prescribing it?
Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is on the ...
How cultured seafood can transition from ‘technological delicacy’ into a sustainable protein source
Startups like BlueNalu and Wildtype have their sights set on first cracking into the high-end sushi market, with hopes of ...
Zimbabwe has just 19 psychiatrists for 15 million people. Here’s how they’re transforming mental health care — and what the US could learn from this paradigm
When psychiatry and other forms of professional mental health care are not accessible, people suffer in silence or turn to ...
Viewpoint: AI is getting smarter every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing
AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing ...
‘Hybrid meat’: Will consumers embrace food made of both cultivated meat and plant-based protein?
In much the same way that hybrid vehicles acted as a bridge between the electric vehicle experimentation of the 1970s ...
Viewpoint: ‘Cattle laundering’ — Is the beef industry deforesting the Amazon?
On paper, the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most protected ecosystems on the planet. There are thousands of protected areas, in ...
Allergy epidemic: Up to 10% of children have food intolerances. Where did they come from?
Food allergies are becoming increasingly common, in children and in adults. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to get a handle on ...
‘Just because we can do it, should we?’ How CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna is furthering the discussion over the ethics of human genome editing
In 2012, Jennifer Doudna, then a relatively unknown biochemist at the University of California Berkeley, published a paper with Emmanuelle Charpentier ...
CRISPR cryptography: Making the world safer from gene-editing research gone awry
Evolution is Kevin Esvelt’s passion: how it works in nature, how we can direct it, and how it can go ...
What future dangers might Artificial Intelligence introduce? Experts clash
There are teams of researchers in academia and at major AI labs these days working on the problem of AI ...
Vegan gold rush: When will billions of dollars poured into plant-based meat ventures result in more than bland-tasting imitations?
The new foods I’ve tried are just a smattering of what’s on offer from the dozens and dozens (and dozens) of ...
Beef from genetically edited cattle are two years away from being available to consumers. Here’s what we can expect
Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that beef from two gene-edited cattle and their offspring ...
We might be living with COVID risks for years to come
There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, ...
Transitioning to a meatless, plant-based future is a win for the environment — but means major upheaval for farm and meatpacking workers
A largely plant-based future would be a win for livestock, 99 percent of which is raised in factory farms, and ...
Video: Why are there so many COVID variants showing up now and what does it portend for the future?
On November 5, 2020, the United Kingdom went into lockdown in an attempt to control a spike in COVID-19 cases ...
‘Holy sh–, it works’: How an out-of-the-box UK COVID recovery trial evaluating a common drug has saved a million lives
[Epidemiologist Peter Horby’s] summary was pithy. “Holy shit, it works.” On June 16 [2020], after verifying the data, the Recovery ...
Viewpoint: ‘Trading one moral catastrophe for another’ — Why swapping beef for chicken won’t fix animal agriculture’s ‘devastating’ environmental impact
[O]ften, the messaging is that we can save the world by switching out our beef consumption for chicken. The problem ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s time to invest in meatless meat’ — Why Biden’s climate plan should address the environmental impact of animal agriculture
For decades, the US government has been pouring money into the meat industry. That funding effectively built the industry into ...