Facts & Fallacies

Some experts are calling for a ban on embryo gene editing after a "disaster" experiment resulted in potentially dangerous and ...

Chemical giant Bayer just settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Has the company given its anti-GMO ...

Scientists have grown tiny human livers from skin cells and transplanted them into rats, moving us closer to saving thousands ...

Infectious disease experts have blasted the World Health Organization for telling the public that asymptomatic patients rarely spread COVID-19. Pandemics ...

Two major studies which found that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine doesn't treat COVID-19 have been retracted. What does that mean ...

Rapid advances in biotechnology could help prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes deaths every year. Growing drugs in GMO plants ...

Food waste plagues both farmers and consumers. Americans throw out much of what we buy at the grocery store—roughly 133 ...

In an effort to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, the USDA has revamped its biotech crop rules, sparking a ...

As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...

While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...

We finally have a drug to treat COVID-19 in remdesivir, but how well does it work? Anti-GMO activists have blamed ...

Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution saved an estimated billion people from starvation, but critics contend his work brought severe environmental and ...

A dearth of coronavirus tests has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and elsewhere, but a newly FDA-approved test ...

While political leaders and scientists speculate that coronavirus is beginning to loosen its grip on the world, hospitals are considering ...

As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...

As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...

The novel coronavirus is not just "the flu," contrary to what you may have read on social media. There may ...

Congenital eye disorders can rob children of their eyesight at a young age and severely diminish their quality of life ...

Our inability to rapidly detect the novel coronavirus has made it difficult to properly combat COVID-19 ...

As genetic engineering reshapes intimate aspects of our lives, is the public on board? ...

Kevin Folta and Cameron English break down four of the latest headlines from the world of genetics and biotech ...

Paul Offit has forged a second career as an influential spokesman for scientific thinking ...

Bad research can put people's lives at risk, so addressing problems with peer review is essential ...

On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, Tim Lu talks to Cameron English about Senti's progress toward "outsmarting complex ...

Looking at the massive selection of goods available in US grocery stores, most consumers likely don't realize just how hard ...

Here's a question for you: what if there were dangerous toxins that could make their way into your food, but ...

While the GMO controversy rages, a handful of companies are taking another innovative approach to crop protection ...