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Joseph Mercola: Alternative health merchant promotes quack cures, funds organic, anti-GMO groups

Osteopath who believes traditional medicine "responsible for killing ... millions of Americans every year" promotes discredited alternative therapies--that he sells ...

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Moms Across America: ‘Consumer’ group promotes health scares, targets GMOs and chemicals

Advocacy group that claims popular herbicide glyphosate is in everything from vaccines to breast milk ...

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Environmental media, advocacy groups in uproar after EPA grants long-term approval for alleged ‘bee-killing’ pesticide sulfoxaflor. Here’s what the science says

Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO lobby’ campaign against AquAdvantage salmon won’t end as fish heads for American plates

EU ‘probably won’t’ re-approve Bayer’s glyphosate weed killer after 2022, German agriculture minister says

Ancestry & Evolution

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Podcast: Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse on his ‘barking mad’ discovery of the genes responsible for cell division

Biblical Philistines came from southern Europe, suggests analysis of ancient DNA

Horizontal gene transfer: The tricky part of evolution never imagined by Charles Darwin

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

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Will China tell the world about its third controversial CRISPR baby?

Inside the quest to find a place in modern medicine for magic mushrooms as a treatment for depression, other mental illnesses

‘Uncharted territory’: Doctors struggle with patient demand for unproven CBD supplements

Biomedicine & Disease

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CRISPR used to cure HIV in mice. Will it lead to new treatments for humans?

AI promises to improve cancer care through precision medicine. Oncologists are starting to agree.

Lone Star tick is notorious for making people allergic to red meat. It may also carry deadly Bourbon virus.

Biotech Communications

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Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO lobby’ campaign against AquAdvantage salmon won’t end as fish heads for American plates

(Practically) no one is anti-science, and how that can help us talk about GMOs

Viewpoint: ‘We’ll be eating each other in 5 years’? How ‘catastrophic’ environmentalism threatens sustainable farming

Brain / Neuroscience

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We may be overlooking mental health risks with acne drug Accutane

‘Tremendous ethical challenge’: What if lab-grown brains are capable of developing consciousness?

Common treatment for prostate cancer may increase risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia

Chemicals & Pesticides

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EU ‘probably won’t’ re-approve Bayer’s glyphosate weed killer after 2022, German agriculture minister says

If Bayer settles glyphosate-cancer lawsuits, final costs could range from $2.5-$20 billion

Brazilian farmers sue Bayer to reclaim $151 million in royalties on GMO cotton

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(Practically) no one is anti-science, and how that can help us talk about GMOs

CRISPR immunizes potato against plant viruses, cutting production costs of globally important food crop

How market forces, self-regulation and GMO crops are making fish farming more sustainable

Gene Editing / CRISPR

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Will China tell the world about its third controversial CRISPR baby?

Explaining the debate over GMOs—and what is or isn’t ‘natural’— through the genetics of chickens

Should CRISPR be used to resurrect passenger pigeons, woolly mammoths and other extinct species?

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$2.1 million gene therapy is most expensive drug in history

How this promising gene therapy for a rare neuromuscular disease was fueled by passionate parents and a dog

Why we shouldn’t view gene therapy as a treatment of last resort

Health & Wellness

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First baby born in the US from transplanted uterus of deceased donor

Viewpoint: ‘Natural’ additives make organic food more nutritious? Dissecting Environmental Working Group’s ‘silly scare tactics’

Pot smokers with this genetic variant could face addiction risks similar to those who smoke cigarettes

New Breeding Techniques

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Manipulating plant mitochondrial DNA could boost crop diversity, promote food security

Viewpoint: FDA’s CRISPR-edited animal rules threaten US farming innovation

FDA rejects call for USDA takeover of CRISPR gene-edited animal regulation

Personal Genomics

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Why we aren’t ready for routine genetic sequencing of newborns: It can ‘raise unsettling questions’

Consumer genetic tests promise rich rewards, but can yield ‘awkward surprises’

Pot smokers with this genetic variant could face addiction risks similar to those who smoke cigarettes

Science of the Future

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Infographic: Quantum ‘tricks’ influence photosynthesis, other biological functions

Vaccines for influenza, other diseases will be ‘printed’ at home in the future

Podcast: Could domesticated bacteria help break our dependence on fossil fuels?

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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1/3 of the world’s soil is degraded. But technology can bring our farmland ‘back to life’

Scientists urge speedy introduction of GMOs to help Ghana cut food imports

Global farming trends put pollinators at risk, threaten food security, study claims

Synthetic Biology

Vaccines for influenza, other diseases will be ‘printed’ at home in the future

9 questions about biohacking and the quest to upgrade the human body

Synthetic biology could outperform plants at producing marijuana components. But obstacles remain.