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The cost of current biotech industry regulations might not be obvious to consumers, but it’s clear to researchers. “We’ve got ...

The US Cattlemen's Association is making a pre-emptive strike against potentially misleading marketing for the next wave of meat alternatives ...

What is a disease? This seemingly abstract and theoretical question is actually among the most practical questions in all of ...

How serious was secret Russian interventionism when it comes to creating public discord over US farming and agricultural trade policy? ...

If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its ...

While intricate high-tech breakthroughs are incredible, it's important to realize the value of low-cost and low-tech ingenuity ...

The fast-moving world of plant breeding — fueled by advances in CRISPR and other techniques — has tossed a wrench ...

Remember the Gros Michel banana? If you're under the age of seventy, you probably don't. That's because in the 1950s ...

Ever struggle with sleep? Almost all of us will at some point our lifetime. Several factors are at play--including travel ...

Public pressure is growing in Australia to ban the sale of pesticides called neonicotinoids because of their harmful effects on bees. The ...

Biodiversity is integral to life, but is more than just a huge number of species: It also represents the variations ...

Latin America is a vital region in the global production of genetically modified (GM) crops, with Brazil and Argentina ranked ...

Health practitioners with little or no training or perspective in genetics are dabbling in this rapidly advancing field. Utilizing results ...

The problem with grass is that it has tough cellular walls that make it difficult to digest. But researchers say ...

Why do the three species of vampire bats eat only blood, compared to the 1,240 other species that are perfectly ...

Hoping to help researchers find links between diseases and mutations, the UK Biobank opened its vault last summer, allowing access ...

Future of heart care: Cardiac patch that doesn't merely beat, but also provides monitoring and, if needed, electrical stimulation and ...

It is 8:30 East African Standard Time.  I disembark from a van filled with science journalists from Kampala, Uganda and ...

While some think of the "dilution effect" as settled science, some ecologists argue that claiming conservation will broadly reduce disease ...

Last fall a new book hit the shelves, timed to coincide with public hearings on the European Union’s re-authorization of ...

Cheaper genome sequencing is expanding our ability to understand risks associated with genetic mutations. But not everyone embraces these advances, ...

Moving to the United States helped [Hortense Dodo, a food scientist and entrepreneur from Ivory Coast] reach her academic goals, but ...

In an effort to develop a safer vaccine substitute, Canadian researchers have resurrected a close relative—the extinct horsepox virus—from scratch ...

The rise in amateur beekeepers keeping hives on roofs and gardens is contributing to the decline of wild bees, Cambridge ...

Muscle created with stem cells is not quite as strong as the researchers would like. But they think these new ...

Farmers, university scientists, the EPA and ag companies are working together to figure out what went wrong and how to ...

[N]ew precision breeding tools are creating such a buzz that some activists suggest techniques like CRISPR Cas9 - which involves ...