Science of the Future
As the EU loosens restrictions on agricultural gene editing, it remains years behind the rest of the world on equally-safe GMO foods
The sante-eNews Newsletter from 2 June 2026 announced another GMO decision. The title claims that the European “Commission authorises use ...
Using AI for health questions? Here are 4 tips for the most accurate answers.
If you want to start, or continue using, a chatbot for your health questions, take these expert-recommended steps as you ...
Viewpoint: Will new breeding techniques help make European agriculture more competitive?
"Breeding companies have been eagerly awaiting this for a long time," begins Sjaak van der Ploeg, Breeding & Strategy Lead ...
AI being mobilized to target misinformation about vaccines–on AI
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have a great reputation for veracity. Social media abounds with AI-generated concoctions, from cute images of fake ...
2,300 endangered species: Controversial de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences joins U.S. effort to preserve their DNA
The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on ...
Signal or noise? Study links GLP-1 drugs to slowing the aging process
A theory that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic or Zepbound might help people live longer has been bandied about by biohackers ...
Viewpoint: Europe clears the way for gene-edited crops — but fear-driven restrictions still slow their full potential
On 17 June 2026, the European Parliament adopted new rules on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGTs), including the ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR-hating activists air their grievances about gene editing farming innovation
Why Farmers Are Sounding the Alarm on EU Deregulation? The European Parliament’s recent decision to authorize the commercialization of plants ...
World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI) ...
AI is making even its founders uneasy: ‘We find evidence of introspection, joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease.’
Anthropic, Google and Meta have over the past year hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study concepts like the ...
Technical milestone or designer baby obsession: Latest gene-editing advance reignites a familiar ethical debate
Scientists at Columbia University have used a precise gene-editing tool, base editing, to make changes in three disease-linked genes in ...
EU bureaucrats are finally catching up to the gene editing revolution in food and agriculture
For decades, "Made in Europe" has been synonymous with a hard-line stance against anything remotely resembling genetic modification. But the ...
Viewpoint: Why are there no approved bioengineered insect-protected (Bt) apples?
642 separate Bioengineered (aka, GM/GMO, recombinant DNA) events, of 42 traits, in 32 different crops or plants have received regulatory ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
Trump administration pushes to bring AI “doctors” into U.S. healthcare. The promise — and the risks.
Today, chatbots can only legally offer medical guidance with a disclaimer attached: Neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, nor ...
Viewpoint—Recursive self-improvement: AI leader Anthropic calls for AI slowdown
For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a ...
What’s behind Anthropic’s warning about the accelerating development of AI
Recursive self-improvement is when an AI system designs, builds, and trains a better version of itself without humans involved. Put ...
Who’s responsible when AI lies? Google challenging court ruling that search results are not protected from legal liability
Google said it will appeal a German court ruling that holds the company directly liable for false statements produced by ...
Six key health insights from taking weight-loss drugs
Tens of millions of people around the world are now taking drugs like Ozempic — a kind of real-time experiment ...
Viewpoint—‘The gleeful efficiency of an arsonist’: Administration’s health and science research cuts are ‘sabotaging’ America’s future
There is a word for what the federal government has done to American science during the past year and a ...
Viewpoint: Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario. Is that proof that climate change is a hoax, as Trump claims?
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate ...
‘You don’t understand Tolkien’: Skeptic Pope trolls tech giants about the exaggerated, risk-less benefits of AI
[T]he Tolkien nod is particularly salient given some backward interpretations of Middle-earth mythology by right-wing billionaires like Peter Thiel and ...
Challenging anti-GMO disinformation: Why genetically-tweaked crops offer bushels of benefits
GMOs are one of the most controversial topics within our global food system. There are many misconceptions regarding what a GMO ...
Viewpoint: Can mRNA research survive the Trump administration?
In December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of ...
Magnifica Humanitas: Pope’s encyclical broadside against AI naivete and overreach
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV put forth a defense of human dignity in the era of AI, delivering ...
Sounds we can’t hear — the hidden planetary signals behind science, fear, and misinformation
Most of us think of sound as something we can hear: music, speech, barking dogs, thunder, or the roar of ...
