Regulation & Bioethics
First stem-cell fraud case enters courts
Stem cell tourism may be on its last legs. Six Los Angeles residents are suing South Korean company RNL Bio ...
GMO labeling measure receives prop number for November ballot
California’s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act will be on November’s ballot as Proposition 37, according to proposition numbers ...
Biotech riders in proposed Farm Bill stir controversy
Critics of agricultural biotechnology say that genetically engineered crops can be harmful to human health and to the environment. They ...
Should genetic screening be more supervised?
Thirteen-day-old Boxi is a "designer baby", genetically selected as her stem cells can be used to save her sister. We ...
A costly California food labeling proposal
The state of California is all but bankrupt–yet professional activists have figured out a way to send us even further ...
Former Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope renews attacks on genetic engineering
Want to know what's bad about genetic engineering? Pretty much everything, if you're Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's former leader ...
Some insurers hesitate to embrace genetic testing
"For some people, the first symptom of this is cardiac arrest — they drop dead on the soccer field, the ...
Virginia governor issues executive order for newborn screening
Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) affects 300 infants in Virginia each year. Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed a work group ...
“Agent Orange Corn”: NGOs skirt science, liken Dow’s new seed to Vietnam era pesticide
Researchers have developed a new variety of biotech corn that carries a natural resistance to the herbicide 2,4-D. Some NGOs ...
Cloned meat, milk as safe as traditional: EU Food Agency
Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...
A community’s twist on genetic tests
In Williamsburg, a bustling Brooklyn enclave across the East River from Manhattan, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews dresses in garb ...
Genetic screening of embryos to be allowed
The Swiss government has agreed that embryos created via in vitro fertilisation (IVF) can, under strict conditions, be screened for ...
Fetal tests spur legal battle
Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, but the commercialization of ...
Protests set for Food Prize events
The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...
Transgenic technique ‘eliminates’ a specific neural circuit in brain of primates
In the brains of humans and non-human primates, over 100 billion nerve cells build up complicated neural circuits and produce ...
Chewing over GM labels
Mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) products is likely to increase costs across the value chain, an executive of Canadian ...
Advocacy NGOs spread grass GM scare, but facts prevail
CBS news reporter, Alix Bryan posted a story about a herd of cattle in Elgin, Texas supposedly poisoned by cyanide ...
South African Police back in Parliament to recommend DNA database
Some years ago a draft bill — the Criminal (Forensic Procedures) Bill — was tabled in Parliament but was sent ...
GMOs, fastest path to enhanced ag productivity in Africa
Executive Director at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has said improved seeds, especially by genetic modification ...
GMO labels limit choices, hurt the poor
To build support for the California GMO labeling law, NGOs and activist groups have played on consumer fears about a ...
Europe tackles ethics of biobanks
Collections of human biological samples used in medical research should be governed by clear rules that safeguard ethics while advancing ...
Is Gattaca becoming real?
The popular 1997 science fiction film Gattacaportrays a futuristic world in which human beings genetically engineered (GE) with certain desirable ...
Genetic test to better detect HIV in donated blood
Chinese health authorities are promoting advanced methods to test blood supplies to help ensure blood safety and reduce HIV infections ...
European geneticists condemn use of testing to establish ‘racial purity’
The use of genetic testing to establish racial origins for political purposes is not only scientifically foolish, but also unethical ...
Genetic testing of far-right Hungarian politician provokes an uproar
If you think running for office in the United States is rigorous, then you haven't met Hungary's far-right Jobbik party ...
NGO’s California anti-GMO campaign’s dangerous War On Science
Backers of the “California Right To Know Genetically Engineered Food Act” are pitching it as a matter of providing information ...
Genetic purity tests for politicians?
Genetic ancestry tests can, and are, being misused in Europe to prove "racial stock." ...