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Viewpoint: The still-shaky future of the alternative meat markets
People like the taste of meat and that alone explains why we have plant-based and other alternative forms of meat ...
Crazy but not insane? How much of criminal behavior is personal decisions versus cultural influences or genes?
On May 7th, 1972, Arthur Shawcross raped and murdered 10-year-old Jack Blake in Watertown, New York. Four months later, on ...
Gene therapy approvals now at four with treatments for inherited anemia and degenerative brain condition — but costs are stratospheric. Why?
The FDA recently approved two gene therapies with hefty price tags, the first for an inherited anemia and the second ...
Viewpoint: King Charles’ resistance to crop biotechnology has been a royal pain. Can the former ‘Dunce of Wales’ shuck organic propaganda and embrace sustainable agriculture?
King Charles III has repeatedly demonstrated some of the pitfalls of the inbreeding that has plagued the royal families of ...
Viewpoint: How reporters regularly botch food nutrition studies
We've reached a point where you must assume everything the media says about nutrition is false. This is a drastic ...
Ideology and happiness: Who is more content with life, conservatives or liberals?
It may be one of the most surefire findings in all of social psychology, repeatedly replicated over almost five decades of study: ...
Video: Viewpoint — Is challenging obese people to lose weight fat shaming?
Has the body positivity movement gone too far? That's the question Dr. Phil posed to me and five other panelists ...
Viewpoint: Regenerative farming and Big Ag — Organic agriculture is no longer just ‘family farms’
According to our “friends” at the EWG, “American consumers spent a total of $20.4 billion on organic fruits and vegetables, ...
Podcast: Industry-funded GMO studies; Food companies back ‘regenerative’ farming; Popcorn-flavored spinach?
Should we be skeptical of GMO safety studies funded by biotech companies? Major food makers including Pepsi and Nestle have ...
Growing rice in the ocean? CRISPR might be utilized to tweak ancient genes could be a future superfood
Around 75 million years ago, a remarkable group of flowering plants known as seagrasses migrated back into the oceans from ...
‘Neanderthal Man’ — Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo revolutionized anthropology. Here is a look back at his groundbreaking 2014 memoir
Svante Pääbo's memoir of how he came to lead a project to sequence the Neanderthal genome— Neanderthal Man: In Search ...
Here is the story behind Svante Pääbo’s Nobel Prize for sequencing the genome of Neandertals and discovering another ancestor, the Denisovans
I was thrilled to learn of the awarding of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo, ...
Viewpoint: Once a biotechnology innovator, Mexico puts its farm economy in a vise, jeopardizes grain trade with the US with GMO and herbicide bans
In power since sweeping to victory in 2018, Mexican center-left president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has relentlessly targeted conventional ...
Could evolutionary forces help life on Earth persist in climate change-altered future environments?
Human impacts on global ecosystems can be severe, widespread and irreversible. But life on Earth has evolved to meet environmental ...
Viewpoint: Count the distortions — Organic industry-funded Carey Gillam misrepresents science and court decision to further obsessive campaign against weedkiller glyphosate
f glyphosate is such a deadly pesticide, why do activist groups have to lie about it? That's the question I ...
Ever felt the love between you and your partner was ‘meant to be’? Here’s the evolutionary reason
In this age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions rooted in wishful thinking. But love remains a ...
Podcast: CRISPR Cas13 gene editing; Eye transplants; Sex might drive our athletic and artistic ability
A new gene-editing technique may be safer and more reliable than CRISPR-Cas9, according to a recent study ...
Viewpoint: Will King Charles abandon his kooky ideas about agriculture and help accelerate Britain’s embrace of sustainable biotechnology tools?
England is in crisis. They lost a beloved figurehead this month but for decades prior were losing scientific ground. If ...
Viewpoint: Synthetic fertilizers in ideological crosshairs — Trade-offs between crop productivity and the environment
Want to fight climate change right now? Need to meet short-term targets for reductions in greenhouse gases? Then restrict applications of ...
Part II: Science and the courts clash over different views about human life and on what limits should be set on human embryo laboratory research
The US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision striking down the constitutional right to abortion (which has sparked a renewed debate over ...
Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, was introduced over forty-five years ago and is the most widely used ...
Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos?
For four decades, scientists world-over have self-imposed a moratorium on doing laboratory research on human embryos 14 days post-fertilization. It's ...
Viewpoint: How to turn Biden’s bioeconomy pledge from a PR exercise into proactive policy
President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
Seeking a fertility treatment? With eggs and sperm now storable for half a century, here’s what you should know.
The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten ...
How Africa’s genetic diversity can be harnessed to close the continent’s ‘drug and treatment gap’
“I have begged to just die.” Those were the words of Sadeh Sophia, a sickle cell disease patient. Although living ...
4 in ten Americans are obese. Producers need to harness biotechnology to make spinach as tasty as popcorn
Nutritionists are trying to get us to eat healthier, particularly to lose weight or maintain it after having lost it ...
Podcast: Biden’s pro-biotech executive order; Vaccine mandates backfire; Courts v junk science
President Biden just signed an executive order promising substantial investment in the "bioeconomy." What impact will the proposal have on ...
