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Podcast: CRISPR advances, HIV cures and a perfect predator for superbugs
Exploring the latest advances in medical biotechnology including CRISPR-based gene therapies, infection-fighting viruses and a cure for HIV. Plus reflections ...
Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits
Once again, evidence that our food supply is safe and incredibly diverse ...
Podcast: Can we ‘outsmart’ cancer with synthetic biology? Dr. Tim Lu talks customized disease treatments
On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, Tim Lu talks to Cameron English about Senti's progress toward "outsmarting complex ...
Enduring misconception: Why are we still drawing evolution as a straight line?
Evolution has no final endpoint in mind ...
Viewpoint: Common pesticides unsafe at any dose? Here’s what’s wrong with Brazilian researcher’s ‘unsupported’ claims
Going to national media with unpublished sensationalist claims is not without consequences ...
Why making healthy babies in space should be quite the adventure
Biologists sent brain organoids to the International Space Station to see how microgravity will affect developing babies ...
Viewpoint: World must embrace CRISPR, synthetic biology to boost food production in the face of climate change
New breeding technologies may hold the key to preventing a global “push into poverty.” ...
Global consensus finds neonicotinoids not driving honeybee health problems. Why is Europe determined to ban them?
Why is Europe allowing what has been called 'a bizarrely one-sided piece of politicized science' to determine agricultural policy? ...
Can DNA predict a person’s facial features? New forensic tool gets us closer, by deducing hair, eye and skin color
Could DNA testing predict faces to go with found body parts? ...
Viewpoint: Developing countries need GMO, gene-edited crops to solve food security challenges
With a ballooning population and climate change, genetic engineering is needed now more than ever ...
If we aren’t careful, we could miss the chance to learn cancer-fighting secrets from threatened whales and elephants
The loss of vulnerable mammals means scientists could miss out on useful quirks in their genetics ...
Viewpoint: Netflix’s horror movie ‘Eli’ is a fright. But why did they have to ‘tarnish gene therapy’?
Attempts to treat genetic disease shouldn’t be the stuff of horror films ...
Video: ‘Blood on their hands’—Greens’ resistance to biotechnology blocks sustainable agriculture, climate change innovation, says GLP’s Jon Entine
Green advocacy groups are the single biggest impediment to sustainable agriculture ...
FDA-approved edible cotton seeds show how GMO, CRISPR-edited crops can battle global hunger
We can't eliminate hunger overnight, but this breakthrough cotton variety will combat a lot of needless suffering ...
For synthetic biology to reach its potential, building new chromosomes from scratch must become commonplace—and we may be getting close
Many of the needed technological breakthroughs can be achieved in the next several years ...
Podcast: The untold story of Edith Rebecca Saunders—’mother of British plant genetics’
We unearth the story of Edith Rebecca Saunders, co-founder of The Genetics Society and the ‘mother of British plant genetics’ ...
‘Drink like there is tomorrow’: Inside the quest to prevent hangovers with a GMO probiotic
Engineered probiotics and other microbes provide amazing opportunities ...
How NASA’s struggle with radiation-resistant microbe could help us understand infections
Bacteria have infiltrated sterile rooms NASA used to build space equipment. Studying what happens to them in outer space could ...
‘Hacking the Code of Life’: How gene editing will lead to disease cures and nutritionally enhanced food
In “Hacking the Code of Life,” Nessa Carey explores new technology offering the power to alter the genome with increasing ...
Viewpoint: How agroecology can improve life for Africa’s smallholder farmers
The gravity of the numerous problems faced by smallholders is too great to allow for scientifically promising alternatives like agroecology ...
Ancestry tests underreport African genetic diversity, limiting benefits of precision medicine for blacks. Here’s how we can change that.
The newly-sequenced African genomes will help fill in the outlines of the origin and diversification of humanity ...
Netflix ‘Unnatural Selection’ gene editing miniseries focuses on extreme examples, ignores potential food sustainability impact of CRISPR
I watched dumbfounded. That is not how genetic engineering works ...
Here’s what you should know about disease-fighting GMO mosquitoes
Media references to Jurassic Park and 'mutant hybrid insects' are based on a thorough misunderstanding of this effective technology ...
A peek into the sex lives of Neanderthals—they may have mated with ‘close kin’
A group of 13 Neanderthal remains detail a story of inbreeding, cannibalism ...
Viewpoint: Documentary ‘Modified’ peddles falsehoods about GMOs, pesticides and ‘corporate control’ of food
"Modified” is an elaborate lie about genetic engineering ...
Genetic engineering, CRISPR and food: What the ‘revolution’ will bring in the near future
Genetic engineering and gene editing have the potential to radically transform our lives if they can overcome the objections of ...
