Science Controversies
SCOTUS ruling protecting gay and transgender rights reaffirms sea change in American attitudes, rebuffs Trump Administration policies
When Donald J. Trump was elected president, gay and lesbian leaders warned that their far-reaching victories under Barack Obama — ...
Why controlling COVID-19 outbreaks could make it harder to test a vaccine
The aim is a vaccine by January, and money is no object. On May 21, the US said it would ...
Dicamba herbicide makers ask court to reverse weedkiller ban, citing ‘disastrous’ impact on farmers
BASF and Corteva Agriscience have filed motions to intervene in the June 3 decision made by the U.S. Court of ...
‘Serious side effects’: FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment
The Food and Drug Administration on [June 15] said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria ...
Viewpoint: UK proposal to break from EU CRISPR rules could unleash plant breeding ‘gold rush’
The agriculture bill before the House of Lords [June 10] offers a chance for plant breeders to make safer, more ...
University coalition launches Gene Editing Task Force to advise FDA on animal biotech regulation
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) today announced the ...
Strict gene-edited crop rules in France could threaten US agriculture exports, USDA warns
In May 2020 France notified the European Commission of its intention to delist in-vitro random mutagenesis with chemical or physical ...
Older vaccines for polio and tuberculosis could ‘rev up’ the body’s immune system to counter COVID-19
Two tried-and-true vaccines — a century-old inoculation against tuberculosis and a decades-old polio vaccine once given as a sugar cube ...
Illegal to eat ice cream on a cone? Bring your own cutlery to barbecues; No more locally-sourced olive oil in bottles, just plastic pouches: Europe’s ‘baffling’ COVID-19 regulations
Europe is lifting its lockdowns, but the new rules to battle the coronavirus are baffling Europeans as the continent goes ...
Infographic: From the common cold to COVID-19, here’s our history with coronaviruses
On January 9 of this year, Chinese state media reported that a team of researchers led by Xu Jianguo had ...
Court that revoked EPA dicamba weedkiller approval could also ban Enlist Duo herbicide
The agricultural industry was rocked by a federal appeals court ruling that vacated the registrations of three dicamba herbicides [in ...
African scientists try to resurrect research sidelined by COVID
As African nations begin easing the lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, scientists are uncertain about ...
3 experimental COVID-19 vaccines set for critical testing phase this summer
The federal government plans to fund and conduct the decisive studies of three experimental coronavirus vaccines starting this summer, according ...
COVID-19 treatment could be ready by September if Eli Lilly’s experimental antibody therapies are a success
Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use as early as September ...
Indian farmers promise ‘large-scale planting’ of illegal GMO seeds despite government threats
Shetkari Sanghatana — the farmers’ union founded by the late leader Sharad Joshi — announced fresh plans in its agitation ...
Contact tracing promises to curb the spread of COVID-19 in New York–if privacy fears can be overcome
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will be asked to disclose personal information this month as part of the city’s ...
COVID-19 evolving to be less deadly? Experts challenge Italian doctor’s claims
Has the novel coronavirus in Italy changed in some significant way? That was the suggestion of a top doctor in ...
Ethical pros and cons of infecting healthy volunteers in quest for COVID-19 vaccine
Instead of vaccinating hundreds to thousands of people and waiting to see if they naturally catch the virus, scientists would ...
Why a poorly designed coronavirus vaccine could actually make infections worse
Antibodies created during a first-time infection could, under very specific circumstances, end up enhancing the disease rather than protecting against ...
Before restricting Roundup weedkiller, EU lawmakers want to know how it could affect farmers
Any potential reduction of glyphosate in the EU should be preceded by an impact assessment exploring the consequence for farmers, ...
Regulators in Kenya certify safety of GMO disease-resistant cassava
After a decade of toil, Kenyan researchers have developed a disease resistant cassava tipped to raise food security and create ...
Greenpeace legal challenge fails to stop Kenya’s food imports
A Greenpeace-endorsed lawsuit to prevent Kenya’s government from importing maize to ease predicted food shortages has been rendered moot due ...
Why GMO acceptance in Ethiopia could lead Africa to embrace biotech crops
A coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations and their global allies have launched a campaign against the cultivation of Genetically ...
The problem with winter: Indoor heating creates an easy pathway for coronavirus to spread
It is obvious that in winter, indoor heating causes a difference between indoor and outdoor temperature. But what we are ...
‘It’s been so chaotic’: US government ‘Operation Warp Speed’ may not be focusing on developing the most promising COVID-19 vaccines
When the news broke [June 3] that Operation Warp Speed had selected five experimental COVID-19 vaccines to fast-track through testing ...
COVID-19 vaccines unlikely to be ‘cure-alls’. That might not be such a bad thing
With a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant future get vaccines against Covid-19 ...
Coronavirus antibodies from GMO cows set for summer clinical trials
The latest recruits in the fight against COVID-19 are munching hay in a South Dakota barn. A biotech company has ...
