Science Controversies
Coronavirus fears spur drop in childhood vaccinations and could lead to new measles outbreaks
Researchers have documented a drop in child vaccination rates in Michigan since restrictions were imposed to slow the spread of ...
Will relaxed USDA GMO, gene-edited crop regulation fuel consumer distrust of biotech?
Plants genetically modified to make changes that also have been made through conventional breeding will not need specific federal oversight, ...
From “COVID toes” to delirium, coronavirus presents a wide range of unusual symptoms
In late April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its list of COVID-19 symptoms. The CDC initially ...
Europe streamlined approval process to weeks to fight COVID-19 pandemic. Why does it take more than a decade to get a GMO safety review?
At the start of the pandemic, China built a hospital in double-quick time and we all thought, “that’s why they ...
Conflict of Interest? Whistleblower alleges study by Stanford’s John Ioannidis critical of lockdown funded by wealthy corporate donor critical of lockdown
A highly influential coronavirus antibody study was funded in part by David Neeleman, the JetBlue Airways founder and a vocal ...
Moderna announces July clinical trials after experimental coronavirus vaccine shows promising early results
Moderna, the Massachusetts biotechnology company behind a leading effort to create a coronavirus vaccine, announced promising early results from its ...
From bioterror to bioerror: Who’s afraid of biohacking?
In March, amateur scientists in Sydney announced they had created a COVID-19 test kit that is simpler, faster, and cheaper ...
Viewpoint: We can’t let the coronavirus open a ‘back door’ to eugenics
The NHS response to Covid-19 has been incredible. It has shown the strong commitment by the medical profession and society ...
Appeals court appears poised to cut jury award in landmark glyphosate-cancer case against Bayer but let verdict stand
A California appeals court looks poised to issue a ruling that would uphold the first U.S. trial victory involving allegations ...
AI digs through billions of molecules, searching for an effective coronavirus treatment
Shantenu Jha, a computational scientist at Rutgers University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, is coupling artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms with ...
Farm groups back South Australia plan to allow GMO crop cultivation, citing ‘freedom of choice’ for growers
South Australia’s Parliament has taken another step towards legalizing the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops, voting to approve ...
There will be no vaccine widely available by fall (or anytime soon) even with a miracle breakthrough
Vaccines to prevent Covid-19 infection are hurtling through development at speeds never before seen. But mounting promises that some vaccine ...
USDA eliminates antiquated rules for GMOs which it says will bring plant biotech regulations ‘into the 21st century’
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue [May 14] announced a final rule updating and modernizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...
Bolivia accelerates GMO crop approvals to bolster national food supply, export industries
Interim President Jeanine Añez of Bolivia issued a Supreme Decree authorizing the National Biosafety Committee to speed up the evaluation ...
Are coronavirus fears breathing new life into old childhood diseases?
Fear among vulnerable patients that they may contract and succumb to a COVID-19 infection is completely understandable. It is less ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vax conspiracy propaganda movement aiming to derail successful rollout of coronavirus vaccines
This war could pit public health officials and politicians against an anti-vaccination movement that floods social media with misinformation, conspiracy ...
Tuberculosis vaccine gets a shot at the coronavirus
One of the oldest vaccines could protect us against our newest infectious disease, COVID-19. The vaccine has been given to ...
Ethiopia remains a net food importer, despite its rich farming history. Can GMO crops help?
The 21st century is said to be the century of biology and ecology. Thus, for Ethiopia, as one of the ...
Should Europe regulate disease-fighting gene drive organisms as GMOs?
Within the last decades, new genetic engineering tools for manipulating genetic material in plants, animals and microorganisms are getting large ...
US, Kenya free-trade agreement could end run African nation’s ‘entrenched’ anti-GMO interests
Anti-biotech activists and sentiment are entrenched throughout Africa, but U.S. farm groups and businesses are hoping a free-trade agreement with ...
What the porn industry can teach us about how to live safely with coronavirus
Since the late 1990s, when an outbreak of HIV infections threatened to shutter the multibillion-dollar industry, the mainstream porn community ...
‘Operation warp speed’ hopes to turbocharge US quest for a coronavirus vaccine
Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a U.S ...
Viewpoint: Crop gene editing can speed post-Brexit UK’s COVID-19 economic recovery
Economic recovery after COVID post-Brexit will need the UK to be able to develop existing industries in new markets, fast ...
Infographic: Widespread use of coronavirus antibody tests will still leave many questions
Dozens of antibody tests for the novel coronavirus have become available in recent weeks. And early results from studies of ...
Abbott expects to ship 90 million coronavirus antibody tests over next two months after FDA grants emergency approval
The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories’ new coronavirus test that detects Covid-19 antibodies.... Abbott ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vaxxers are expected to fight a coronavirus vaccine. Here’s one way to deal with them
[T]he race for a [coronavirus] vaccine and the techniques being used to manufacture it are bound to activate some familiar ...
First we need a coronavirus vaccine—Then figure out how to produce 300 million doses
In the midst of national shortages of testing swabs and protective gear, some medical suppliers and health policy experts are ...
