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‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead

David Warmflash

Viewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops should be heavily restricted as GMOs reaffirms need to revamp Europe’s antiquated biotech regulations

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New ‘DNA clock’ finds that if our genes had their way, humans would have a ‘natural’ lifespan of 38 years

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Viewpoint: ‘Dicamba Debacle’ stirs questions about the future shape of ‘industrial, intensive agriculture’

Podcast: How ‘fake news’ about avian flu almost sent virologist Ilaria Capua to prison for life

Ilaria Capua, Kevin Folta

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Viewpoint: Dicamba debacle trial forces a reevaluation: Was Monsanto a ‘bonafide bad actor’?

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FDA defends CRISPR-edited animal rules likely to block most uses: Is the agency trying to avoid litigation from anti-GMO groups?

Cameron English

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February 18, 2020

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Viewpoint: Is a coronavirus vaccine on the horizon? Antiquated FDA regulations make it unlikely one will emerge in the US

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Viewpoint: Free speech vs science—Should colleges invite anti-GMO speakers they know spread misinformation?

Alison Van Eenennaam

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Podcast: ‘How to argue with a racist’—geneticist Adam Rutherford challenges what he calls ‘pseudoscience’ in genetics and politics

Adam Rutherford, Arun Durvasula, Daniel Khosravinia, Kat Arney

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Salt tolerant plants are on the horizon – and critical to address the looming crisis of a shortage of arable farm land

Tautvydas Shuipys

large brain electrical

‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead

David Warmflash

Viewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops should be heavily restricted as GMOs reaffirms need to revamp Europe’s antiquated biotech regulations

screenshot scientists are waging a war against human aging but what happens next

New ‘DNA clock’ finds that if our genes had their way, humans would have a ‘natural’ lifespan of 38 years

ac d ec a c bf a c b fa

Viewpoint: ‘Dicamba Debacle’ stirs questions about the future shape of ‘industrial, intensive agriculture’

Podcast: How ‘fake news’ about avian flu almost sent virologist Ilaria Capua to prison for life

Ilaria Capua, Kevin Folta

large farmer spraying crops can be used for dicamba articles

Viewpoint: Dicamba debacle trial forces a reevaluation: Was Monsanto a ‘bonafide bad actor’?

fda largenotapprovedstamp

FDA defends CRISPR-edited animal rules likely to block most uses: Is the agency trying to avoid litigation from anti-GMO groups?

Cameron English

GMO FAQs More...

Are GMOs and pesticides threatening bees?

Most entomologists, rather, believed bee health problems reflect a slew of issues, primarily the impact of the Varroa destructor mite, recognized as the greatest single scourge of honeybees...

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How does genetic engineering differ from conventional breeding?

In most ways, breeding using genetic engineering is fundamentally similar to those used for thousands of years—by nature and humans...

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Viewpoint: Anti-chemical ‘activist-legal complex’ fuels public fear of scientific innovation

Viewpoint: How the ‘green lobby’ has partnered with the fishing industry to keep sustainable GMO salmon off our plates for 25 years

East Africa faces two plagues: Once-in-a-generation insect infestation and swarms of European activists trying to block the only effective tool, pesticides

Ancestry & Evolution

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Video: Look inside Siberia’s Denisova cave, where researchers discovered bones of our mysterious relatives

Podcast: ‘How to argue with a racist’—geneticist Adam Rutherford challenges what he calls ‘pseudoscience’ in genetics and politics

Another human species? Still undiscovered hominid line left ‘ghost DNA’ in West African genomes

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

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‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead

Can you buy a synthetic version of the deadly 1918 influenza? There’s no law against it—and that has security experts worried

Why China scientist’s CRISPR baby scandal won’t be the last ethical ‘grenade’ for human gene editing

Biomedicine & Disease

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Viewpoint: AI could guide us in understanding which cancer patients likely to benefit from expensive immunotherapy

Predicting the next coronavirus outbreak by mining genetic databases

Congenital blindness appears to offer protection against schizophrenia. Researchers trying to figure out why.

Biotech Communications

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Public views pesticides as ‘bad industrial chemicals’. Here’s how farmers can turn that fear into support for sustainable farming

Impossible Foods touts eco-benefits of its GMO plant-based burger to win over skeptical consumers

Viewpoint: How the rural-urban divide helps ‘anti-farming groups’ spread myths about agriculture

Brain / Neuroscience

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Viewpoint: ‘Hunches’ can’t be used to decide the fate of ‘covertly conscious’ patients in vegetative states

‘It makes me feel more connected to the human race’: Epilepsy patients donate live brain tissue for research

Evidence mounts that marijuana smokers more vulnerable to false memories

Chemicals & Pesticides

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FDA reports 38% decline in animal antibiotic sales since 2015, easing public health concerns

Viewpoint: Science losing out to anti-glyphosate hysteria, farmers in a quandary as there are no alternative weedkillers as effective

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical ‘activist-legal complex’ fuels public fear of scientific innovation

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Salt tolerant plants are on the horizon – and critical to address the looming crisis of a shortage of arable farm land

Burger King plans expansion of plant-based meat options following booming sales of GMO Impossible Burger

Australia’s stingless bees: Beekeepers’ best defense against deadly varroa mite?

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Why China scientist’s CRISPR baby scandal won’t be the last ethical ‘grenade’ for human gene editing

Immunotherapy breakthrough? CRISPR-edited immune cells proven safe for use in cancer patients in early stage trial

‘Excitement is finally catching on’: Why RNA editing may be more promising than CRISPR

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Gene therapy for Alzheimer’s? Biotech startup suggests new approach, using dementia ‘off switch’

Teenager’s experimental gene therapy treatment could change the lives of millions of sickle cell patients worldwide

Gene therapy era: A look at current treatments and what’s next for cancers and genetic disorders

Health & Wellness

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‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead

Viewpoint: Don’t expect genetic matchmaking to help you find your Valentine

Humans are ‘biologically built’ to seek out friends

New Breeding Techniques

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Viewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops should be heavily restricted as GMOs reaffirms need to revamp Europe’s antiquated biotech regulations

Following Golden Rice approval, Philippines poised to implement rules to accommodate GMO animals, CRISPR crops

Viewpoint: President Trump should end FDA-USDA turf war over animal gene-editing regulation to foster innovation

Personal Genomics

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Viewpoint: Don’t expect genetic matchmaking to help you find your Valentine

Why consumers are losing interest in genetic testing

Amish people study suggests environmental factors influence mutations causing disease and evolution more than genes

Science of the Future

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Can artificial intelligence diagnose diseases? Promising apps in development but kinks remain

Viewpoint: AI has one glaring weakness in health care: There’s no human touch

Would artificial wombs liberate women from the ‘blood, sweat and tears’ of pregnancy?

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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How beer brewers and marijuana growers are teaming up to help address the climate crisis

Viewpoint: How the ‘green lobby’ has partnered with the fishing industry to keep sustainable GMO salmon off our plates for 25 years

Salt tolerant plants are on the horizon – and critical to address the looming crisis of a shortage of arable farm land

Synthetic Biology

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Boosting Australia’s fire recovery by ‘terraforming’ damaged lands with synthetic biology

Re-engineering yeast to create biofuel appears possible, ‘but the effort involved is intimidating’

‘Living, self-healing xenobots’ made from frog stem cells could lead to new drug delivery system