Science Controversies
With a COVID-19 vaccine only a distant possibility, a HIV containment-like strategy could be best option
Though many people are pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine, another option is available: preventive treatment. At a Senate ...
Russia relaxes ‘almost impassable’ restrictions on GMO soy imports, sparking backlash from regional governors
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has exempted GM soybeans and soybean meal from compulsory government registration in a decree released ...
‘Automation is in a tailspin’: How the pandemic has disrupted AI’s ability to understand us
When covid-19 hit, we started buying things we’d never bought before. The shift was sudden: the mainstays of Amazon’s top ...
Viewpoint: We can’t simply test our way out of the coronavirus pandemic
In response to calls for Covid-19 testing of the entire U.S. population, several large universities, and even some employers, have ...
Viewpoint: Only a tiny percentage of children face threat of severe coronavirus complications. That risk isn’t high enough to justify lockdowns
Horrific stories are emerging of children developing rashes, cardiac abnormalities and other inflammatory symptoms that are linked to the novel ...
Australia, New Zealand could approve two GMO potatoes after finding ‘no potential public health concerns’
Food Standards Australia New Zealand .... released a call for public comment on an application to approve food from two ...
Experimental Parkinson’s treatment draws ethics scrutiny with wealthy donor selected as first patient
A secretive experiment revealed [May 12], in which neurosurgeons transplanted brain cells into a patient with Parkinson’s disease, made medical ...
Novavax launches human clinical trial on coronavirus vaccine in Australia
A U.S. biotechnology company began injecting a coronavirus vaccine candidate into people in Australia on Tuesday [May 26] with hopes ...
EU GMO approval process hinders biotech crop development with no scientific justification, researchers argue
The approach to equivalence testing required by the [European Food Safety Authority, EFSA] creates unwarranted barriers to the introduction of ...
Infographic: 8 ways we can defeat the coronavirus
More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams in companies and universities across the world. Researchers ...
Video: There were objections to Spanish flu lockdowns too. Bad things happened when critics got their way
During the Spanish flu era, officials pushing public health mandates to stop the pandemic in its tracks were met with ...
Bayer reaches verbal settlement in up to 85,000 glyphosate-cancer suits for estimated $10 billion
Bayer AG has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 U.S. cancer lawsuits over use ...
How coronavirus wreaks havoc on the body, organ by organ
Covid-19 has confounded the expectations of doctors. Patients suffer from a bewildering variety of complications. They urinate blood, complain of ...
Cross-party proposal aims ‘to liberate’ UK biotech sector from EU agricultural gene-editing rules
A cross-party group of MPs and Lords have called for .... ditching EU rules which block the access to precision ...
EU ‘farm-to-fork’ proposal opens door to gene editing, drawing fire from anti-GMO groups
The European Commission has set targets to reduce pesticide use and sales of antimicrobials by 2030. The Farm to Fork ...
Federal judge tosses lawsuit alleging Cheerios contain undisclosed glyphosate weedkiller
A would-be class suit alleging General Mills Inc. failed to disclose the presence of glyphosate residue in Cheerios can’t proceed ...
China’s latest outbreak sparks concerns over dangerous coronavirus mutations
Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region ...
Viewpoint: US government’s coronavirus response a ‘living nightmare’
It sounds like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr. Azar (ex-lobbyist ...
African nations warm to crop biotechnology for potential food security gains
Though only a few African countries are now growing genetically modified (GM) crops commercially, governments across the continent are increasingly ...
Pandemic could give a boost to remote-monitoring devices that keep patients out of the doctor’s office
It was a shift that began long before the pandemic: Tech companies, health providers, and patients alike were increasingly looking ...
First, we need a coronavirus vaccine. Then we need to figure out who gets it first
Several drugmakers that have been building up their capabilities to make coronavirus vaccines, have pledged to deliver millions of doses ...
Infographic: From head to toe, coronavirus affects the body in unpredictable ways
Today, there is widespread recognition the novel coronavirus is far more unpredictable than a simple respiratory virus. Often it attacks ...
African science steps up to COVID challenge
As the coronavirus spreads across Africa, launching a pandemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) warns could “smolder” for years, ...
GMO herbicide-tolerant canola poses little risk to human health, EU Food Safety Authority finds
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) has published the Scientific Opinion on the ...
Plants obtained from conventional breeding can’t be patented, European patent court rules
The highest judicial authority at the [European Patent Office] EPO issued their opinion .... in the controversial G3/19 (Pepper) case ...
USDA’s relaxed biotech crop rules could speed plant development, but are regulations still too strict?
A major change to U.S. regulation of biotech will exempt some gene-edited plants from government oversight. The new policy ...
Good news for a coronavirus vaccine: Human immune system offers robust response, study shows
Information about immunity to SARS-CoV-2, both in the context of COVID-19 disease pathogenesis and in the context of how to ...
