Regulation & Bioethics
Male birth control: Still no pill despite 50 years of contraceptive research
Today, there are 17 female-controlled forms of contraception approved by the FDA, including the birth control pill. Yet condoms and ...
Lifting Sri Lanka’s glyphosate herbicide ban welcomed by tea industry
Editor's note: The following is part of an editorial by The Island, a daily English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka The reported ...
Exploring the alternate reality of Natural News’ Mike Adams’ online ’empire of misinformation’
If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its ...
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski continues crusade against genetically engineered salmon in US
Controversial genetically engineered (GE) salmon pioneer AquaBounty Technologies could be cleared to begin US salmon sales if a continued prohibition ...
Viewpoint: US funding for IARC cancer agency should be frozen until changes are made
Question: When is a carcinogen not necessarily a carcinogen? Answer: When the labelling is done by the World Health Organization’s ...
Targeted evolution: Why are we so afraid of CRISPR gene editing?
Here’s the paradox: modern gene technology is far less genetically invasive – and much better understood – than the time-worn ...
Big breakthrough? Man’s penis injected with stem cells at controversial clinic
Ben Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru to the sort of nerds who devote themselves to ...
European farm groups defend neonicotinoids as environmental NGOs calls for total ban to protect bees
[Editor's note: On Feb. 28, the European Food Safety Authority issued a report concluding that neonicotinoid insecticides pose risks to ...
Viewpoint: Regulatory overreach looms as obstacle for New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) in agriculture
The fast-moving world of plant breeding — fueled by advances in CRISPR and other techniques — has tossed a wrench ...
On India’s black market, herbicide-tolerant GMO cotton seeds sell for 1.7 times what Monsanto charged
[W]hile the government wanted to keep prices low for Indian farmers, as [the South Asia Biotechnology Centre] points out, the ...
Anti-GMO group plans to sue New Zealand food safety regulator over Golden Rice approval
Campaign group GE-Free New Zealand is considering taking legal action against regulator Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and the ...
Viewpoint: We need strong federal funding to tackle brain disorders
Because of breakthroughs like those of the Human Genome Project, and the development of new scientific tools and techniques, we ...
Wading through California’s coffee-cancer controversy
California might soon start requiring Starbucks to warn its customers that coffee causes cancer. Has California gone nuts, or is ...
Employing gene drives to protect rare species comes with risks
There is an ambitious poison baiting campaign currently being planned for Gough [island] in an attempt to control rodent numbers ...
Bayer-Monsanto merger stalls Burkina Faso’s GMO cotton plans
Talks with Bayer to reintroduce genetically modified (GM) cotton in Burkina Faso are on hold pending the German drug and ...
Should we fear all of these ‘toxins’ alternative medicine warns us about?
“Detox diets” and “detox kits” are dietary interventions that are claimed to support or promote the elimination of toxins. They ...
Neonicotinoid insecticides pose risks to wild bees and honeybees, European Food Safety Authority says
The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major ...
Viewpoint: Bans on neonicotinoid insecticides may not actually help bees
Public pressure is growing in Australia to ban the sale of pesticides called neonicotinoids because of their harmful effects on bees. The ...
Quest to find ‘Olympic genes’ comes up short—so far
In 2014, the former Soviet nation of Uzbekistan announced a plan that it hoped would give it a leg up ...
Federal judge halts California’s plan to require cancer warning label on glyphosate products
A federal judge on Monday halted California’s plan to require Monsanto to place warning labels on its Roundup products, saying scientists haven’t ...
Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer and Syngenta, blame neonicotinoid manufacturers for bee deaths
A Quebec class-action lawsuit against two producers of neonicotinoids — commonly used insecticides that have been linked to a declining population of honeybees — ...
15 surprising GMO and gene-edited crop advances underway in South and Central America
Latin America is a vital region in the global production of genetically modified (GM) crops, with Brazil and Argentina ranked ...
Are consumer genetic tests misused by doctors and alternative health providers?
Health practitioners with little or no training or perspective in genetics are dabbling in this rapidly advancing field. Utilizing results ...
Controversial natural supplement kratom draws FDA’s ire after Salmonella outbreak
It’s no secret that the Food Drug Administration isn’t a fan of kratom, a popular herb purported to help people with digestive ...
Esophageal cancer treated with risky modified T-cell therapy in China
Esophageal cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in China. Like many other types, cancer of the esophagus ...
What 3D printing can teach us about how to regulate CRISPR gene editing
Australia’s gene technology regulations have not been revised since 2001- despite many game-changing advances in genetic technologies over the past 17 ...
Video: Josiah Zayner’s deep dive into DIY biohacking
In 2016, Josiah Zayner, a former synthetic biology research scientist at NASA, checked himself into a hotel room. Over the ...