Science of the Future
Repairing a broken code of life: In CRISPR breakthrough, rewriting the misspelling of infant’s DNA cures him of rare liver disease
In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized ...
Viewpoint: Screening embryos for diseases—slippery slope and the advantages of being rich
[D]espite [Noor] Siddiqui’s efforts to cast herself as a modern-day Jonas Salk, [Orchid Health genetic screening services are] not a ...
$500 million universal flu vaccine: Moonshot-like project proposes to use 50-year old technology that likely won’t work
Dubbed Generation Gold Standard, the project is aimed at creating a flu shot that doesn't have to be updated every ...
CRISPR pig joins a shortlist of genetically modified animals approved by the FDA for human consumption
Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus ...
Del Monte threatens suit against Nicaraguan farmer growing its patented genetically engineered Pinkglow pineapple
In the middle of last year [2024], Fresh Del Monte indicated that it would take legal action if it was ...
Fruits and vegetables that stay fresh for weeks? Gene edited ‘super foods’ could be on British supermarket shelves soon
Bananas that don’t go brown, strawberries that last for weeks, tomatoes boosted with vitamin D: gene-edited foods could be on ...
Cracking cancer’s code: How science is weaponizing our immune system to target aggressive brain tumors
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had ...
Viewpoint: Indiscriminate cuts of agricultural climate programs undercut American productivity
As the Trump administration reviews federal programs, reduces the federal workforce, and prepares its 2026 budget proposal, cuts to climate-related ...
Unlocking the mystery of how plants communicate
Researchers at the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) at Cornell University have taken a huge step toward making plant ...
AI tool can assess a person’s health by analyzing a photograph
Scientists have developed an A.I. tool that they say can help assess a patient’s health — and potentially guide their ...
Treating genetic disorders before birth: Prenatal and newborn genetic screening is surging
Advances in modern medicine allow us to treat fetuses and newborn babies for genetic or inherited diseases. Recent studies have ...
Should the EU grant patent protection to the coming generation of gene edited crops
Some stakeholders are worried that there will be a huge wave of [plant] patents rolling over the European market with ...
With malaria ravaging East Africa at a rising rate, European and U.S. backed anti-vaxxers target lifesaving vaccines
In early April, at the national launch of Uganda's malaria vaccine, 31-year-old Caroline Akot cradled her 9-month-old child, who had ...
Nuclear energy renaissance: China leapfrogs the U.S. and other reticent western countries
China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is reportedly one of the ...
In a courtroom first, AI brings a road rage victim back to life to confront his murderer. What happened?
For two years, Stacey Wales kept a running list of everything she would say at the sentencing hearing for the ...
Are biological chemicals a promising possible alternative to some crop chemicals?
[A]s consumers grow increasingly concerned about the environmental and health impacts from the chemicals, there’s a pivot toward what the ...
Should the EU ease restrictions on CRISPR and other gene edited crops: ‘Yes’, says a plant researcher vs. No, from a anti-GMO activist scientist
Few topics are as divisive and controversial as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The same level of contention also characterises new ...
How might humans evolve if we colonized Mars
[H]ow will our fragile Earth-borne bodies react if we were to live on another planet like Mars? ... Even if ...
Viewpoint: Sociogenomics—Challenging the ethics of IQ-based gene selection
[A] US start-up that offers eugenic embryo selection. Heliospect Genomics aims to enable wealthy couples to select the “most intelligent” ...
‘Massive breakthrough’: In breakthrough microsurgery, surgeons use an abdomen blood vessel to reconstruct breasts
A patient who had pioneering breast reconstruction surgery said she took part ‘for all the women who will come after ...
RFK, Jr.’s MAHA ‘chronic disease epidemic’ tsunami sweeps across America
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement, which focuses on ending what President Donald Trump's health secretary calls the “chronic disease epidemic,” ...
Viewpoint: How our food choices impact the global environment
Messaging about healthy and sustainable food choices — buying local, the best diets, the cost of nutritious food — can ...
DNA barcoding: How it revolutionized tracking food fraud
[T]he 2013 horsemeat scandal is considered one of the most egregious cases of food fraud on the continent [Europe], and ...
Gene therapy offers hope for people with rare, exorbitantly-expensive-to-treat diseases
[S]tunning advances in genetic science have revealed the subtle, insidious culprits behind [rare genetic] diseases and have started paving the ...
What are the barriers limiting organic food consumption globally
Current dietary practices significantly contribute to environmental degradation, with organic food consumption emerging as a viable alternative for promoting sustainability ...
India becomes first country to approve yield-boosting gene edited rice
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday [April 4, 2025] unveiled India’s first genome-edited rice varieties, DRR Dhan 100 ...
Keeping sewers clean: Subterranean drones are thankfully replacing human workers
The key to preventing [sewer related] disasters ... is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks and fissures ...
