Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patents will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic

Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patents will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic

Val Giddings | 
In a recent Washington Post column, Fareed Zakaria wrote: The United States is entering a post-pandemic era. This is happening primarily ...
Africa cracks down on ravenous locust swarms by ignoring Greenpeace’s anti-pesticide rhetoric

Africa cracks down on ravenous locust swarms by ignoring Greenpeace’s anti-pesticide rhetoric

Angela Logomasini | 
As nations around the world struggle with COVID-19 and related economic lockdowns, African countries are fighting another plague: swarms of ...
Podcast: Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News

Podcast: Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News

A just-published study found that consuming two or more sugar-sweetened beverages in a day is linked to a doubling of ...
Banned in Uganda: While the Irish potato faces disease and climate change, politics stymie farmers eager to adopt still unapproved GM seeds

Banned in Uganda: While the Irish potato faces disease and climate change, politics stymie farmers eager to adopt still unapproved GM seeds

Lominda Afedraru | 
It's a five-hour drive into the western part of Uganda to Kachwekano Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (KaZARDI), where ...
Genomic Cold War? More nations joining the US in using biotechnology to enhance military capabilities

Genomic Cold War? More nations joining the US in using biotechnology to enhance military capabilities

Yusef Paolo Rabiah | 
The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British ...
Viewpoint: Mexico's 'cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face' glyphosate ban — Why prohibiting one of the safest herbicides in the world will dramatically increase the use of a demonstrably more harmful alternative

Viewpoint: Mexico’s ‘cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face’ glyphosate ban — Why prohibiting one of the safest herbicides in the world will dramatically increase the use of a demonstrably more harmful alternative

Marc Brazeau | 
It appears that the proposed Mexican government plan to ban all genetically engineered corn and the widely used herbicide glyphosate ...
Incurable Huntington’s disease? microRNA offers hope in the wake of failed clinical trials

Incurable Huntington’s disease? microRNA offers hope in the wake of failed clinical trials

Ricki Lewis | 
A recent DNA Science post considered the ebb and flow of treatment possibilities for Alzheimer’s disease. This week, it’s Huntington’s disease. Like ...
'Flawed process leads to flawed science': Why the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer claims glyphosate causes cancer

‘Flawed process leads to flawed science’: Why the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer claims glyphosate causes cancer

Susan Goldhaber | 
The recent excellent article by Josh Bloom, “NYC Pol Uses Phony Cancer Scare & ‘Children’ to Ban Glyphosate in Parks,” ...
Viewpoint: 'Make America Safe Again'—Conservative calls for fellow rightists to get vaccinated

Viewpoint: ‘Make America Safe Again’—Conservative calls for fellow rightists to get vaccinated

Marilyn Quigley | 
As a conservative, I praised most of President Trump’s efforts to “Make America great again,” including the financial incentive to ...
How CRISPR and other gene-edited crops are regulated in the United States and around the world: A scholarly review

How CRISPR and other gene-edited crops are regulated in the United States and around the world: A scholarly review

Genome editing in agriculture and food is leading to new, improved crops and other products. Depending on the regulatory approach ...
Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast: COVID's mysterious origins; Why some anti-vaxxers got their shots; Unwise J&J 'pause'?

Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast: COVID’s mysterious origins; Why some anti-vaxxers got their shots; Unwise J&J ‘pause’?

Allison Kennedy, Cameron English | 
Where did SARS-COV-2 come from? For most of the last year a natural origin story was the predominant view among ...
Viewpoint: 'Killer petunias'? The shameful story of the USDA's 'unscientific, innovation-stifling' process for regulating genetically-engineered flowers

Viewpoint: ‘Killer petunias’? The shameful story of the USDA’s ‘unscientific, innovation-stifling’ process for regulating genetically-engineered flowers

Henry Miller | 
Now that vivid orange, red, and purple genetically engineered petunias are approved for distribution to plant nurseries, it’s time for ...
Viewpoint: Farm-to-Fork plan suggests Europe wants sustainable farming. So why do EU politicians ignore the 'green' benefits of GM crops?

Viewpoint: Farm-to-Fork plan suggests Europe wants sustainable farming. So why do EU politicians ignore the ‘green’ benefits of GM crops?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
There is ongoing disagreement between the popularly elected European Parliament and the executives in the European Commission over approvals of ...
COVID and immunity: How long will it last if you get a vaccine or were infected?

COVID and immunity: How long will it last if you get a vaccine or were infected?

Luke O’Neill | 
The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing ...
Ideological rigidity is hampering efforts to leverage the regenerative agriculture 'revolution'. Here are two paths forward

Ideological rigidity is hampering efforts to leverage the regenerative agriculture ‘revolution’. Here are two paths forward

Marc Brazeau | 
Does regenerative agriculture require a completely new economics of farming to achieve scale? Or should the focus be on the ...
Why do some animals live extraordinarily long lives — and can humans benefit from studying them?

Why do some animals live extraordinarily long lives — and can humans benefit from studying them?

Bob Holmes | 
Life, for most of us, ends far too soon — hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to ...
Viewpoint: Battling corporate takeover of agriculture? Activists who oppose GMOs and other forms of farming biotechnology hurt vulnerable populations they claim to want to protect

Viewpoint: Battling corporate takeover of agriculture? Activists who oppose GMOs and other forms of farming biotechnology hurt vulnerable populations they claim to want to protect

Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue | 
Activist groups which oppose so-called ‘genetically modified organisms’ (GMOs) frequently affirm that they want to fight corporations and capitalism. While ...
‘In nature, everything is connected’: Can synthetic biology reverse the decline in our depleted marine ecosystem?

‘In nature, everything is connected’: Can synthetic biology reverse the decline in our depleted marine ecosystem?

Davian Ho | 
Our blue planet runs on ocean ecosystems that are currently in steep decline. In the last 50 years, the amount ...
The central challenge for regenerative agriculture advocates: Not undermining the movement by 'overselling' its limited and targeted advantages

The central challenge for regenerative agriculture advocates: Not undermining the movement by ‘overselling’ its limited and targeted advantages

Marc Brazeau | 
The term regenerative farming first popped up in the mainstream media in a 1987 New York Times article about what ...
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Regenerative agriculture: The movement dedicated to unseating intensive, ‘industrial farming’ by claiming it has comprehensive sustainability advantages

Marc Brazeau | 
For the last century, each generation has produced an alternative approach to farming that is aimed at a central challenge ...
Vaccine equity: This is what the US is doing to ensure widespread global access to COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccine equity: This is what the US is doing to ensure widespread global access to COVID-19 vaccines

Jennifer Kates, Josh Michaud | 
The U.S. is expected to soon have enough COVID-19 vaccine doses on hand to fully vaccinate just about everyone in ...
Impact of false negative COVID tests: Some patients have Long Covid symptoms but have been denied medical coverage

Impact of false negative COVID tests: Some patients have Long Covid symptoms but have been denied medical coverage

Lydia Zuraw | 
Kristin Novotny once led an active life, with regular CrossFit workouts and football in the front yard with her children ...
Viewpoint: Livestock—an underrated solution to climate change

Viewpoint: Livestock—an underrated solution to climate change

Savannah Gleim | 
Climate change is real and in many instances, agriculture’s livestock is often tagged as being a leading emitter, but what if ...
Viewpoint: ‘Dump Dimorphism’ — Challenging orthodoxy, neuroscientists claim 30 years of studies show ‘no meaningful male-female brain differences’

Viewpoint: ‘Dump Dimorphism’ — Challenging orthodoxy, neuroscientists claim 30 years of studies show ‘no meaningful male-female brain differences’

Lise Eliot | 
Everyone knows the difference between male and female brains. One is chatty and a little nervous, but never forgets and takes ...
Duckweed to the rescue: How the world’s fasting-growing plant could boost food security despite climate change

Duckweed to the rescue: How the world’s fasting-growing plant could boost food security despite climate change

Teresa Carey | 
Scientists are looking for clues in the genes of the world's fastest-growing plant to help them get a leg up ...
Is there a difference between a gene-edited organism and a 'GMO'? The question has important implications for regulation

Is there a difference between a gene-edited organism and a ‘GMO’? The question has important implications for regulation

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
The controversy over genetically engineered organisms (sometimes called “genetically modified organisms,” or “GMOs”) is genuine, not faux — but only ...
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Science Facts and Fallacies podcast: Dr. Paul Offit takes on anti-vaccine activism as COVID shots stem new infections

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Early in the pandemic, Children's Health Defense—the anti-vaccine group headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—alleged that SARS-COV-2 was being used ...
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