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Biotechnology and breeding are important ways to improve agriculture: they make the plants we grow and animals we raise for ...

In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for ...

I’ve published 38 editions of several college life science textbooks since 1982. All have covered human prenatal development and assisted ...

Proponents of mandatory labeling of foods containing or derived from genetically modified (GM) crops have long claimed that their primary ...

With the announcement by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, that “The CDC has to ...

Triple-negative breast cancer, about 10% of all breast cancers, is one of the most aggressive and deadliest forms of this ...

Faced with global food security concerns and soaring food and energy price inflation, the UK Government seems to have woken ...

Keeping the microbes living in your gut healthy is important to your overall well-being, and recent research suggests that regular ...

Hana aced her memory test. After viewing the contents of three identical boxes arrayed in an arc on the back ...

Personal injury lawyers are either revered or reviled. Sometimes purveyors of junk science, they often prey on a vulnerable and ...

Long-lasting herbicides don’t just control weeds. They also promote no-till farming, which helps farmers save costly tractor fuel and avoid ...

Research going back many years has shown that vaccine mandates tend to backfire. Forcing people to get shots they don't ...

A high-profile judicial decision in a federal appeals case has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revisit its finding that ...

The Gökhem graves provide hard evidence for the ancient community's demise: genetic traces of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis ...

Does the weedkiller glyphosate cause convulsions? A study published last week seemed to support that conclusion, but there's much more ...

What could be more natural than organically grown Golden Promise barley, used to make craft-brewed pale ale? ...

Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s ...

Zambia’s traditional pig farmers are poised to further embrace reproductive biotechnology, including advanced forms of artificial insemination as an alternative ...

COVID and monkeypox seem to have come out of nowhere and exploded across continents. But the phenomenon of natural selection ...

"Is organic’s luck about to run out?” So ran a recent headline in The Grocer magazine, and it got me thinking. Could food ...

Scientists believe Africa is where modern humans first emerged. For the past decade, our team of genetic researchers from the Henn Lab have worked among the ...

I run a research lab at the University of Pittsburgh where we focus on developing tools that can control the ...

Is it time to give up low-dose aspirin as a heart-attack prevention tool? New evidence suggests that the risks may ...

Transplant medicine could take a giant leap forward if donor organs could soak up oxygen for longer and decay delayed ...

For more than two decades, anti-GMO groups have resorted to the same dishonest claims about the risks of genetically engineered ...

Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One question ...

The wife of a Northern California congressman died late last year after ingesting a plant that is generally considered safe ...